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The Darby Translation
Jonah 1:2
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“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it because their evil has come up before me.”
"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me."
Arise, goe to Nineueh that great citie, and cry against it: for their wickednes is come vp before me.
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me."
"Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry out against it, because their wickedness has come up before Me."
"Get up, go to the great city of Nineveh, and preach against it, because I see the evil things they do."
"Go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim [judgment] against it, for their wickedness has come up before Me."
Arise, and goe to Nineueh, that great citie, and crye against it: for their wickednesse is come vp before mee.
"Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before Me."
"Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before Me."
"Arise! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me."
to go to the great city of Nineveh and say to the people, "The Lord has seen your terrible sins. You are doomed!"
"Set out for the great city of Ninveh, and proclaim to it that their wickedness has come to my attention."
"Nineveh is a big city. I have heard about the many evil things the people are doing there. So go there and tell them to stop doing such evil things."
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it; for their wickedness has come up before me.
He said, "Go to Nineveh, that great city, and speak out against it; I am aware of how wicked its people are."
"Get up! Go to the great city Nineveh and cry out against her, because their evil has come up before me."
Rise up, go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry out against it; for their evil has come up before Me.
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and let your voice come to it; for their evil-doing has come up before me.
'Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim against it; for their wickedness is come up before Me.'
Aryse, & go to Niniue that great citie, and crye against it: for their wickednesse is come vp before me.
Rise, and go to Nineve, the great city, and preach in it; for the cry of its wickedness is come up to me.
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me."
sone of Amathi, and seide, Rise thou, and go in to Nynyue, the greet citee, and preche thou ther ynne, for the malice therof stieth vp bifore me.
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness has come up before me.
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
"Go immediately to Nineveh, that large capital city, and announce judgment against its people because their wickedness has come to my attention."
"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me."
"Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh. Announce my judgment against it because I have seen how wicked its people are."
"Get up and go to the large city of Nineveh, and preach against it. For their sin has come up before Me."
"Go at once to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before me."
Arise, get thee to Nineveh the great city, and proclaim unto it, - that their wickedness, hath come up, before me.
Arise and go to Ninive, the great city, and preach in it: For the wickedness thereof is come up before me.
"Arise, go to Nin'eveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness has come up before me."
`Rise, go unto Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim against it that their wickedness hath come up before Me.'
Aryse, and get the to Niniue that greate cite: and preach vnto them, how yt their wickednesse is come vp before me.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Nineveh: Jonah 3:2, Jonah 4:11, Genesis 10:11, 2 Kings 19:36, Nahum 1:1, Nahum 2:1 - Nahum 3:19, Zephaniah 2:13-15
cry: Jonah 3:2, Isaiah 58:1, Jeremiah 1:7-10, Ezekiel 2:7, Ezekiel 3:5-9, Micah 3:8, Matthew 10:18
for: Genesis 18:20, Genesis 18:21, Ezra 9:6, James 5:4, Revelation 18:5
Reciprocal: Psalms 74:23 - increaseth Psalms 77:6 - my song Isaiah 37:37 - Nineveh Isaiah 56:10 - loving Jeremiah 2:2 - cry Luke 11:32 - a greater Acts 9:13 - Lord
Cross-References
And the earth brought forth grass, herb producing seed after its kind, and trees yielding fruit, the seed of which is in them, after their kind. And God saw that it was good.
And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
He stretcheth out the north over empty space, he hangeth the earth upon nothing;
Lo, these are the borders of his ways; but what a whisper of a word do we hear of him! And the thunder of his power, who can understand?
By the word of Jehovah were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
For thus saith Jehovah who created the heavens, God himself who formed the earth and made it, he who established it,—not as waste did he create it: he formed it to be inhabited:—I [am] Jehovah, and there is none else.
She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and writhing pain is in all loins, and all their faces grow pale.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city,.... That is, arise from the place where he was, and leave the business he was about, and prepare for a long journey to the place mentioned, and be as expeditious in it as possible. Nineveh was the metropolis of the Assyrian empire at this time; it was an ancient city built by Ashur, not by Nimrod; though he by some is said to go into Ashur or Assyria, and build it, Genesis 10:11; and called it after the name of his son Ninus; for it signifies the mansion or palace of Ninus; and by most profane writers is called Ninus; according to Diodorus Siculus m, and Strabo n, it was built by Ninus himself in Assyria, in that part of it called by him Adiabena. It is said to be a great city, as it must, to be three days' journey in compass, and to have in it six score thousand infants, besides men and women, Jonah 3:3. It is allowed by Strabo o to be larger than Babylon. Diodorus p says that it was in compass of sixty miles; and had a wall a hundred feet high, and so broad that three chariots or carriages might go abreast upon it; and it had, fifteen hundred towers, two hundred feet high. Aben Ezra calls it the royal city of Assyria, which is at this day destroyed; and the wise men of Israel, in the country of Greece, say it is called Urtia; but, whether so or not, he knew not:
and cry against it; or prophesy against it, as the Targum; he was to lift up his voice, and cry aloud, as he passed along in it, that the inhabitants might hear him; and the more to affect them, and to show that he was in earnest, and what he delivered was interesting to them, and of the greatest moment and importance: what he was to cry, preach, or publish, see Jonah 3:2;
for their wickedness is come up before me; it was come to a very great height; it reached to the heavens; it was not only seen and known by the Lord, as all things are; but the cry of it was come up to him; it called aloud for vengeance, for immediate vengeance; the measure of it being filled up, and the inhabitants ripe for destruction; it was committed openly and boldly, with much impudence, in the sight of the Lord, as well as against him; and was no more to be suffered and connived at: it intends and includes their idolatry, bloodshed, oppression, rapine, fraud, and lying; see Jonah 3:8.
m Bibliothec. l 2. p. 92. n Geograph. l. 16. p. 507. o Ut supra. (Geograph. l. 16. p. 507.) p Bibliothec. l. 2. p. 92.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city - The Assyrian history, as far as it has yet been discovered, is very bare of events in regard to this period. We have as yet the names of three kings only for 150 years. But Assyria, as far as we know its history, was in its meridian. Just before the time of Jonah, perhaps ending in it, were the victorious reigns of Shalmanubar and Shamasiva; after him was that of Ivalush or Pul, the first aggressor upon Israel. It is clear that this was a time Of Assyrian greatness: since God calls it âthat great city,â not in relation to its extent only, but its power. A large weak city would not have been called a âgreat city unto Godâ Jonah 3:3.
And cry against it - The substance of that cry is recorded afterward, but God told to Jonah now, what message he was to cry aloud to it. For Jonah relates afterward, how he expostulated now with God, and that his expostulation was founded on this, that God was so merciful that He would not fulfill the judgment which He threatened. Faith was strong in Jonah, while, like Apostles âthe sons of thunder,â before the Day of Pentecost, he knew notâ what spirit he was of.â Zeal for the people and, as he doubtless thought, for the glory of God, narrowed love in him. He did not, like Moses, pray Exodus 32:32, âor else blot me also out of Thy book,â or like Paul, desire even to be âan anathema from Christâ Romans 9:3 for his peopleâs sake, so that there might be more to love his Lord. His zeal was directed, like that of the rebuked Apostles, against others, and so it too was rebuked. But his faith was strong. He shrank back from the office, as believing, not as doubting, the might of God. He thought nothing of preaching, amid that multitude of wild warriors, the stern message of God. He was willing, alone, to confront the violence of a city of 600,000, whose characteristic was violence. He was ready, at Godâs bidding, to enter what Nahum speaks of as a den of lions Nahum 2:11-12; âThe dwelling of the lions and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses.â He feared not the fierceness of their lion-nature, but Godâs tenderness, and lest that tenderness should be the destruction of his own people.
Their wickedness is come up before Me - So God said to Cain, Genesis 4:10. âThe voice of thy brotherâs blood crieth unto Me from the ground:â and of Sodom Genesis 18:20 :21, âThe cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, because their sin is very grievous; the cry of it is come up unto Me.â The âwickednessâ is not the mere mass of human sin, of which it is said 1 John 5:19, âthe whole world lieth in wickedness,â but evil-doing toward others. This was the cause of the final sentence on Nineveh, with which Nahum closes his prophecy, âupon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?â It bad been assigned as the ground of the judgment on Israel through Nineveh Hosea 10:14-15. âSo shall Bethel do unto you, on account of the wickedness of your wickedness.â It was the ground of the destruction by the flood Genesis 6:5. âGod saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth.â God represents Himself, the Great Judge, as sitting on His Throne in heaven, Unseen but All-seeing, to whom the wickedness and oppressiveness of man against man âgoes up,â appealing for His sentence against the oppressor. The cause seems ofttimes long in pleading. God is long-suffering with the oppressor too, that if so be, he may repent. So would a greater good come to the oppressed also, if the wolf became a lamb. But meanwhile, â every iniquity has its own voice at the hidden judgment seat of God.â Mercy itself calls for vengeance on the unmerciful.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jonah 1:2. Go to Nineveh — This was the capital of the Assyrian empire, and one of the most ancient cities of the world, Genesis 10:10-11; and one of the largest, as it was three days' journey in circumference. Ancient writers represent it as oblong; being in length one hundred and fifty stadia, and ninety in breadth, the compass being four hundred and eighty stadia. Now as the stadium is allowed to have been equal to our furlong, eight of which make a mile, this amounts to fifty-four English miles: see on Jonah 3:3. But we must not suppose that all this space was covered with compact streets and buildings; it took in a considerable space of country, probably all the cultivated ground necessary to support all the inhabitants of that district. Calmet computes the measurement of the circumference to be equal to twenty-five French leagues. It is reported to have had walls one hundred feet high, and so broad that three chariots might run abreast upon them. It was situated on the Tigris, or a little to the west, or on the west side of that river. It was well peopled, and had at this time one hundred and twenty thousand persons in it reputed to be in a state of infancy, which on a moderate computation would make the whole number six hundred thousand persons. But some, supposing that persons not being able to distinguish their right hand from their left must mean children under two years of age, and reckoning one such child for every twenty persons from that age upwards, make the population amount to two millions five hundred thousand. Nor can this be considered an exaggerated estimate, when we know that London, not one-tenth of the size of ancient Nineveh, contains a population of upwards of one million. But calculations of this kind, relative to matters of such remote antiquity, are generally precarious, and not very useful: and ancient authors, though the only guides, are not always safe conductors. Mosul is generally supposed to be the same as the ancient Nineveh. It is in the province of Dearbekir, on the west bank of the Tigris.
Their wickedness is come up before me. — This is a personification of evil. It ascends from earth to heaven; and stands before the Supreme Judge, to bear witness against its own delinquency, and that of the persons whom it has seduced.
