Then the men were even more afraid and said to him, “What is this you’ve done?” The men knew he was fleeing from the Lord’s presence, because he had told them.

Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they couldn’t because the sea was raging against them more and more.

The men feared the Lord even more, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows.

But I said: I have been banished
from Your sight,
yet I will look once more
toward Your holy temple.

Should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot distinguish between their right and their left, as well as many animals?”