- The captain went to him and said, "How can you sleep? Get up and call on your god! Maybe he will take notice of us, and we will not perish."
- Then the sailors said to each other, "Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity." They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah.
- So they asked him, "Tell us, who is responsible for making all this trouble for us? What do you do? Where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?"
- He answered, "I am a Hebrew and I worship the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the land."
- This terrified them and they asked, "What have you done?" (They knew he was running away from the LORD, because he had already told them so.)
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- 船主到他那里对他说,你这沉睡的人哪,为何这样呢。起来,求告你的神,或者神顾念我们,使我们不致灭亡。
- 船上的人彼此说,来吧,我们掣签,看看这灾临到我们是因谁的缘故。于是他们掣签,掣出约拿来。
- 众人对他说,请你告诉我们,这灾临到我们是因谁的缘故。你以何事为业。你从哪里来。你是哪一国,属哪一族的人。
- 他说,我是希伯来人。我敬畏耶和华,那创造沧海旱地之天上的神。
- 他们就大大惧怕,对他说,你做的是什么事呢。他们已经知道他躲避耶和华,因为他告诉了他们。
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