Yunus 1:14

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lalu berserulah mereka kepada TUHAN, katanya: "Ya TUHAN, janganlah kiranya Engkau biarkan kami binasa karena nyawa orang ini dan janganlah Engkau tanggungkan kepada kami darah orang yang tidak bersalah, sebab Engkau, TUHAN, telah berbuat seperti yang Kaukehendaki."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu berserulah mereka kepada TUHAN, katanya: "Ya TUHAN, janganlah kiranya Engkau biarkan kami binasa karena nyawa orang ini dan janganlah Engkau tanggungkan kepada kami darah orang yang tidak bersalah, sebab Engkau, TUHAN, telah berbuat seperti yang Kaukehendaki."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Lalu berserulah mereka itu kepada Tuhan, sembahnya: Ya Tuhan! jangan apalah kami binasa oleh karena sebab jiwa orang ini dan jangan Engkau tanggungkan pada kami darah orang yang tiada bersalah, karena Engkau, ya Tuhan, sudah membuat barang yang Kaukehendaki.

Contextual Overview

¹¹ And they saide vnto him: What shal we do vnto thee, that the sea may be calme vnto vs? For the sea wrought and was troublous. ¹² And he saide vnto them, Take me, and cast me into the sea, and the sea shalbe calme vnto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is vpon you. ¹³ Neuerthelesse, the men assayed with rowing to bring the shippe to lande, but they could not, because the sea wrought, and was troublous against them. ¹⁴ Wherfore they cryed vnto the Lorde, and saide: We beseche thee O Lord, we beseche thee, let not vs perishe for this mans lyfe, and lay not to our charge innocent blood: for thou O Lorde hast done as it pleased thee. ¹⁵ So they toke vp Ionas, and cast him into the sea, and the sea left raging. ¹⁶ And the men feared the Lorde exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice vnto the Lorde, and made vowes. ¹⁷ And the Lorde prepared a great fishe to swalowe vp Ionas: & Ionas was in the belly of the fishe three dayes and three nightes.

Bible Verse Review
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they: Jonah 1:5, Jonah 1:16, Psalms 107:28, Isaiah 26:16

let: Genesis 9:6, Deuteronomy 21:8, Acts 28:4

for: Psalms 115:3, Psalms 135:6, Daniel 4:34, Daniel 4:35, Matthew 11:26, Ephesians 1:9, Ephesians 1:11

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 19:10 - General Isaiah 46:7 - one shall cry Jonah 3:8 - cry Matthew 27:4 - the innocent 1 Corinthians 12:18 - as it

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginnyng GOD created ye heauen and the earth.

Genesis 1:2
And the earth was without fourme, and was voyde: & darknes [was] vpon the face of the deepe, and the spirite of God moued vpon the face of the waters.

Genesis 1:3
And God sayde, let there be light: and there was light.

Genesis 1:4
And God sawe the lyght that it was good: and God deuided the lyght from the darknes.

Genesis 1:6
And God said: let there be a firmament betwene the waters, and let it make a diuision betwene waters and waters.

Genesis 1:7
And God made the firmament, and set the diuision betwene the waters which [were] vnder the firmament, and the waters that [were] aboue the firmament: and it was so.

Genesis 1:8
And God called the firmament the heauen: and the euenyng and the mornyng were the seconde day.

Genesis 1:9
And God saide: let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered together into one place, and let the drye lande appeare: and it was so.

Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth [both] bud and hearbe apt to seede after his kynde, and tree yeeldyng fruite, whiche hath seede in it selfe, after his kynde.

Genesis 1:14
And God sayde: let there be lyghtes in the firmament of the heauen, that they may deuide the day and the nyght, and let them be for signes, & seasons, and for dayes, and yeres.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore they cried unto the Lord,.... Not unto their gods, but unto the true Jehovah, the God of Jonah, and of the Hebrews; whom they now, by this providence, and Jonah's discourse, had some convictions and knowledge of as the true God; and therefore direct their prayer to him, before they cast the prophet into the sea:

and said, we beseech thee, O Lord, we beseech thee; which repetition shows the ardent, vehemence, and earnestness of their minds in prayer:

let us not perish for this man's life; they were in the utmost perplexity of mind, not knowing well what to do; they saw they must perish by the storm, if they saved his life; and they were afraid their should perish, if they took it away; and which yet they were obliged to do; and therefore had no other way left but to pray to the Lord they might not perish for it; or it be reckoned as their crime, and imputed to them, as follows:

and lay not upon us innocent blood; for so it was to them; he had done no hurt to them since he had been with them, except in being the cause of the storm, whereby they had suffered the loss of their goods; however, had not been guilty of anything worthy of death, as they could observe; and as for his offence against God, they were not sufficient judges of, and must leave it with him: the light of nature teaches men to be tender of the lives of fellow creatures, and to avoid shedding of innocent blood:

for thou, O Lord, hast done as it pleased thee; it appeared to them to be the wilt of God that he should be cast into the sea; from the storm that was raised on his account; from the determination of the lot; from the confession of Jonah, and his declaration of the will of God in this matter, as a prophet of his: they did not pretend to account for it; it was a secret to them why it should be; but it was no other than what he would have done; and therefore they hoped no blame would be laid on them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wherefore (And) they cried unto the Lord - “They cried” no more “each man to his god,” but to the one God, whom Jonah had made known to them; and to Him they cried with an earnest submissive, cry, repeating the words of beseeching, as men, do in great earnestness; “we beseech Thee, O Lord, let us not, we beseech Thee, perish for the life of this man” (i. e., as a penalty for taking it, as it is said, 2 Samuel 14:7. “we will slay him for the life of his brother,” and, Deuteronomy 19:21. “life for life.”) They seem to have known what is said, Genesis 9:5-6. “your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God made He man” , “Do not these words of the sailors seem to us to be the confession of Pilate, who washed his hands, and said, ‘I am clean from the blood of this Man?’ The Gentiles would not that Christ should perish; they protest that His Blood is innocent.”

And lay not upon us innocent blood - innocent as to them, although, as to this thing, guilty before God, and yet, as to God also, more innocent, they would think, than they. For, strange as this was, one disobedience, their whole life, they now knew, was disobedience to God; His life was but one act in a life of obedience. If God so punishes one sin of the holy 1 Peter 4:18, “where shall the ungodly and sinner appear?” Terrible to the awakened conscience are God’s chastenings on some (as it seems) single offence of those whom He loves.

For Thou, Lord, (Who knowest the hearts of all men,) hast done, as it pleased Thee - Wonderful, concise, confession of faith in these new converts! Psalmists said it, Psalms 135:6; Psalms 115:3. “Whatsoever God willeth, that doeth He in heaven and in earth, in the sea and in all deep places.” But these had but just known God, and they resolve the whole mystery of man’s agency and God’s Providence into the three simple words , as (Thou) “willedst” (Thou) “didst.” “That we took him aboard, that the storm ariseth, that the winds rage, that the billows lift themselves, that the fugitive is betrayed by the lot, that he points out what is to be done, it is of Thy will, O Lord” . “The tempest itself speaketh, that ‘Thou, Lord, hast done as Thou willedst.’ Thy will is fulfilled by our hands.” “Observe the counsel of God, that, of his own will, not by violence or by necessity, should he be cast into the sea. For the casting of Jonah into the sea signified the entrance of Christ into the bitterness of the Passion, which He took upon Himself of His own will, not of necessity. Isaiah 53:7. “He was offered up, and He willingly submitted Himself.” And as those who sailed with Jonah were delivered, so the faithful in the Passion of Christ. John 18:8-9. “If ye seek Me, let these go their way, that the saying might be fulfilled which” Jesus spake, ‘Of them which Thou gavest Me, I have lost none. ‘“

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jonah 1:14. They cried unto the Lord — Under a conviction that he was the self-existing Being, the Maker of the heavens and the earth, and the author of the present storm, they put up their prayers to him.

Let us not perish for this man's life — They were now about to cast him overboard; but seemed to call God to witness that it was with the utmost reluctance, and only in obedience to his command. There is a parallel passage in the Argonautics, which has been quoted to illustrate this: -

Πολλα δε μερμηριζον ενι φρεσι πευκαλιμησι,

Η μεν αποφθισωσι, και ιχθυσι κυρμα βαλωσιν

Αινολεχη Μμηδειαν, αποτρεψωσι δ' Εριννυν.

Ver. 1171.

"And much they doubted, in their prudent minds,

Whether to kill and cast a prey to fishes

Wretched Medea, and avert their fate." See Newcome.