Jonah 1:11 {10}
Good News Translation
The storm was getting worse all the time, so the sailors asked him, "What should we do to you to stop the storm?"

New Revised Standard Version
Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you, that the sea may quiet down for us?” For the sea was growing more and more tempestuous.

Contemporary English Version
The storm kept getting worse, until finally the sailors asked him, "What should we do with you to make the sea calm down?"

New American Bible
They asked, “What shall we do with you, that the sea may calm down for us?” For the sea was growing more and more stormy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the men were greatly afraid, and they said to him: Why hast thou done this? (For the men knew that he fled from the face of the Lord: because he had told them.)

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the men were greatly afraid, and they said to him: Why hast thou done this? (For the men knew that he fled from the face of the Lord: because he had told them.)

What.

1 Samuel 6:2,3 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying: What shall we do with the ark of the Lord? tell us how we are to send it back to its place. And they said: . . .

2 Samuel 21:1-6 And there was a famine in the days of David for three years successively: and David consulted the oracle of the Lord. And the Lord said: It is for Saul, and his bloody house, because he slow the Gabaonites. . . .

2 Samuel 24:11-13 And David arose in the morning, and the word of the Lord came to Gad the prophet and the seer of David, saying: . . .

Micah 6:6,7 What shall I offer to the Lord that is worthy? wherewith shall I kneel before the high God? shall I offer holocausts unto him, and calves of a year old? . . .

calm unto us.

Context
Jonah Cast Into the Sea and Swallowed
11And the men were greatly afraid, and they said to him: Why hast thou done this? (For the men knew that he fled from the face of the Lord: because he had told them.)12And they said to him: What shall we do with thee, that the sea may be calm to us? for the sea flowed and swelled.…
Cross References
Jonah 1:10
And he said to them: I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord, and the God of heaven, who made both the sea and the dry land.

Jonah 1:12
And they said to him: What shall we do with thee, that the sea may be calm to us? for the sea flowed and swelled.

Jonah 1:10
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