Jonah 1:15

Complete Jewish Bible

Then they picked up Yonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped raging.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped its raging.

Hebrew Names Version
So they took up Yonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging.

King James Version (1611)
So they tooke vp Ionah, and cast him foorth into the sea, and the sea ceased from her raging.

King James Version
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.

English Standard Version
So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging.

New American Standard Bible
So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, and the sea stopped its raging.

New Century Version
So they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea became calm.

Amplified Bible
So they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped its raging.

Geneva Bible (1587)
So they tooke vp Ionah, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceased from her raging.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So they picked up Jonah, threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped its raging.

Legacy Standard Bible
So they lifted Jonah up and hurled him into the sea, and the sea stood still from its raging.

Berean Standard Bible
At this, they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the raging sea grew calm.

Contemporary English Version
Then they threw Jonah overboard, and the sea calmed down.

Darby Translation
And they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from its raging.

Easy-to-Read Version
So the men threw Jonah into the sea. The storm stopped, and the sea became calm.

George Lamsa Translation
So they took up Jonah and cast him forth into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.

Good News Translation
Then they picked Jonah up and threw him into the sea, and it calmed down at once.

Lexham English Bible
And they picked Jonah up and hurled him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging.

Literal Translation
And they lifted Jonah up and threw him into the sea. And the sea ceased from its raging.

American Standard Version
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.

Bible in Basic English
So they took Jonah up and put him into the sea: and the sea was no longer angry.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
So they toke vp Ionas, and cast him into the sea, and the sea left raging.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So they took Jonas, and cast him out into the sea: and the sea ceased from its raging.

English Revised Version
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.

World English Bible
So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei token Jonas, and threwen in to the see; and the see stood of his buylyng.

Update Bible Version
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.

Webster's Bible Translation
So they took Jonah, and cast him into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.

New English Translation
So they picked Jonah up and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped raging.

New King James Version
So they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging.

New Living Translation
Then the sailors picked Jonah up and threw him into the raging sea, and the storm stopped at once!

New Life Bible
So they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the storm stopped.

New Revised Standard
So they picked Jonah up and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So they took up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, - and the sea, left off, her roaring.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they took Jonas, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceased from raging.

Revised Standard Version
So they took up Jonah and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.

Young's Literal Translation
And they lift up Jonah, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceaseth from its raging;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So they toke Ionas, and cast him in to the see, and the see lefte ragynge.

THE MESSAGE
They took Jonah and threw him overboard. Immediately the sea was quieted down.

Contextual Overview

¹¹ They asked him, "What should we do to you, so that the sea will be calm for us?" — for the sea was getting rougher all the time. ¹² "Pick me up," he told them, "and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; because I know it's my fault that this terrible storm has come over you." ¹³ Nevertheless, the men rowed hard, trying to reach the shore. But they couldn't, because the sea kept growing wilder against them. ¹⁴ Finally they cried to Adonai , "Please, Adonai , please! Don't let us perish for causing the death of this man, and don't hold us to account for shedding innocent blood; because you, Adonai , have done what you saw fit." ¹⁵ Then they picked up Yonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped raging. ¹⁶ Seized with great fear of Adonai , they offered a sacrifice to Adonai and made vows. ¹⁷ The word of Adonai came to Yonah the son of Amitai: "Set out for the great city of Ninveh, and proclaim to it that their wickedness has come to my attention." But Yonah, in order to get away from Adonai , prepared to escape to Tarshish. He went down to Yafo, found a ship headed for Tarshish, paid the fare and went aboard, intending to travel with them to Tarshish and get away from Adonai . However, Adonai let loose over the sea a violent wind, which created such stormy conditions that the ship threatened to break to pieces. The sailors were frightened, and each cried out to his god. They threw the cargo overboard to make the ship easier for them to control. Meanwhile, Yonah had gone down below into the hold, where he lay, fast asleep. The ship's captain found him and said to him, "What do you mean by sleeping? Get up! Call on your god! Maybe the god will remember us, and we won't die." Then they said to each other, "Come, let's draw lots to find out who is to blame for this calamity." They drew lots, and Yonah was singled out. They said to him, "Tell us now, why has this calamity come upon us? What work do you do? Where are you from? What is your country? Which is your people?" He answered them, "I am a Hebrew; and I fear Adonai , the God of heaven, who made both the sea and the dry land." At this the men grew very afraid and said to him, "What is this that you have done?" For the men knew he was trying to get away from Adonai , since he had told them. They asked him, "What should we do to you, so that the sea will be calm for us?" — for the sea was getting rougher all the time. "Pick me up," he told them, "and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; because I know it's my fault that this terrible storm has come over you." Nevertheless, the men rowed hard, trying to reach the shore. But they couldn't, because the sea kept growing wilder against them. Finally they cried to Adonai , "Please, Adonai , please! Don't let us perish for causing the death of this man, and don't hold us to account for shedding innocent blood; because you, Adonai , have done what you saw fit." Then they picked up Yonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped raging. Seized with great fear of Adonai , they offered a sacrifice to Adonai and made vows.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they: Joshua 7:24-26, 2 Samuel 21:8, 2 Samuel 21:9

and the: Psalms 89:9, Psalms 93:3, Psalms 93:4, Psalms 107:29, Matthew 8:26, Luke 8:24

ceased: Heb. stood

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 21:14 - God Psalms 65:7 - Which Mark 4:41 - feared

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So they took up, Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea,.... They took him out of the hold or cabin where he was, and brought him upon deck; they took him, not against his will, but with his full consent, and according to the direction and advice he gave them: "they", for there were more than one employed in this affair; one or more very probably took him by the legs, and others put their hands under his arm holes, and so threw him into the sea:

and the sea ceased from her raging; immediately, and became a calm; and the wind also ceased from blowing, which is supposed; the end being answered by the storm, and the person found and obtained, what was sought after by it, it was still and quiet. The story the Jews m tell of his being let down into the sea to his knees, upon which the sea was calm, but became raging again upon his being taken up; and so, at the second time, to his navel; and the third time to his neck; is all fabulous; but he being wholly thrown in, it raged no more.

m Pirke Eliezer, c. 10. fol. 10. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They took up Jonah - ^o “He does not say, ‘laid hold on him’, nor ‘came upon him’ but ‘lifted’ him; as it were, bearing him with respect and honor, they cast him into the sea, not resisting, but yielding himself to their will.”

The sea ceased (literally “stood”) from his raging - Ordinarily, the waves still swell, when the wind has ceased. The sea, when it had received Jonah, was hushed at once, to show that God alone raised and quelled it. It “stood” still, like a servant, when it had accomplished its mission. God, who at all times saith to it Job 38:11, “Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed,” now unseen, as afterward in the flesh Matthew 8:26, “rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm” . “If we consider the errors of the world before the Passion of Christ, and the conflicting blasts of diverse doctrines, and the vessel, and the whole race of man, i. e., the creature of the Lord, imperiled, and, after His Passion, the tranquility of faith and the peace of the world and the security of all things and the conversion to God, we shall see how, after Jonah was cast in, the sea stood from its raging” . “Jonah, in the sea, a fugitive, shipwrecked, dead, sayeth the tempest-tossed vessel; he sayeth the pagan, aforetime tossed to and fro by the error of the world into divers opinions. And Hosea, Amos, Isaiah, Joel, who prophesied at the same time, could not amend the people in Judaea; whence it appeared that the breakers could not be calmed, save by the death of (Him typified by) the fugitive.”