Jonah 1:2 Parallel Translations

"Leave at once for the important city, Nineveh. Announce to the people that I can no longer overlook the wicked things they have done."(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

ASV:

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

BBE:

Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and let your voice come to it; for their evil-doing has come up before me.

DBY:

Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

ERV:

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

JPS:

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim against it; for their wickedness is come up before Me.'

WBS:

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

WEB:

"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me."

YLT:

'Rise, go unto Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim against it that their wickedness hath come up before Me.'

Jonah 1:2 Cross References

XREF:

Genesis 10:11 From that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah,

Genesis 18:20 And the LORD said, "The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is indeed great, and their sin is exceedingly grave.

2 Kings 19:36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home, and lived at Nineveh.

Isaiah 37:37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home and lived at Nineveh.

Isaiah 58:1 "Cry loudly, do not hold back; Raise your voice like a trumpet, And declare to My people their transgression And to the house of Jacob their sins.

Hosea 7:2 And they do not consider in their hearts That I remember all their wickedness. Now their deeds are all around them; They are before My face.

Nahum 1:1 The oracle of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Zephaniah 2:13 And He will stretch out His hand against the north And destroy Assyria, And He will make Nineveh a desolation, Parched like the wilderness. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

1:2 Arise, go to {b} Nineveh, that {c} great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
(b) For seeing the great obstipation of the Israelites, he sent his Prophet to the Gentiles, that they might provoke them to repentance, or at least make them inexcusable: for Nineveh was the chief city of the Assyrians.
(c) For as authors write, it contained in circuit about forty-eight miles, and had 1500 towers, and at this time there were 120,000 children in it; Jon 4:11.

WES:

1:2 That great city - It is said to have been one hundred and fifty furlongs in length, that is eighteen miles and three quarters, and eleven miles and one quarter in breadth.

MHC:

1:1-3. It is sad to think how much sin is committed in great cities. Their wickedness, as that of Nineveh, is a bold and open affront to God. Jonah must go at once to Nineveh, and there, on the spot, cry against the wickedness of it. Jonah would not go. Probably there are few among us who would not have tried to decline such a mission. Providence seemed to give him an opportunity to escape; we may be out of the way of duty, and yet may meet with a favourable gale. The ready way is not always the right way. See what the best of men are, when God leaves them to themselves; and what need we have, when the word of the Lord comes to us, to have the Spirit of the Lord to bring every thought within us into obedience.

CONC:

Arise Cry Evil-doing Nineveh Nin'eveh Preach Proclaim Rise Town Voice Wickedness

Arise City Cry Evil-Doing Great Nineveh Nin'eveh Preach Proclaim Rise Voice Wickedness

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