Jonah 1:2 {1}
Good News Translation
He said, "Go to Nineveh, that great city, and speak out against it; I am aware of how wicked its people are."

New Revised Standard Version
“Go at once to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before me.”

Contemporary English Version
to go to the great city of Nineveh and say to the people, "The LORD has seen your terrible sins. You are doomed!"

New American Bible
Set out for the great city of Nineveh, and preach against it; for their wickedness has come before me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amathi, saying:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amathi, saying:

Nineveh.

Jonah 3:2 And the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time saying:

Jonah 4:11 And the Lord said: Thou art grieved for the ivy, for which thou hast not laboured, nor made it to grow, which in one night came up, and in one night perished.

Genesis 10:11 Out of that land came forth Assur, and built Ninive, and the streets of the city, and Chale.

2 Kings 19:36 And Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, departing, went away, and he returned and abode in Ninive.

Nahum 1:1 The burden of Ninive. The book of the vision of Nahum, the Elcesite.

Nahum 2:1-3:19 He is come up that shall destroy before thy face, that shall keep the siege: watch the way, fortify thy loins, strengthen thy power exceedingly. . . .

Zephaniah 2:13-15 And he will stretch out his hand upon the north, and will destroy Assyria: and he will make the beautiful city a wilderness, and as a place not passable, and as a desert. . . .

cry.

Jonah 3:2 And the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time saying:

Isaiah 58:1 Cry, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their wicked doings, and the house of Jacob their sins.

Jeremiah 1:7-10 And the Lord said to me: Say not: I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee: and whatsoever I shall command thee, thou shalt speak. . . .

Ezekiel 2:7 And thou shalt speak my words to them, if perhaps they will hear, and forbear: for they provoke me to anger.

Ezekiel 3:5-9 For thou art not sent to a people of a profound speech, and of an unknown tongue, but to the house of Israel: . . .

Micah 3:8 And they shall be confounded that see visions, and the diviners shall be confounded: and they shall all cover their faces, because there is no answer of God.

Matthew 10:18 And you shall be brought before governors, and before kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles:

for.

Genesis 18:20,21 And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous. . . .

Ezra 9:6 And said: My God I am confounded and ashamed to lift up my face to thee: for our iniquities are multiplied over our heads, and our sins are grown up even unto heaven,

James 5:4 Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

Revelation 18:5 For her sins have reached unto heaven: and the Lord hath remembered her iniquities.

Context
Jonah Flees From the LORD
1And saviours shall come up into mount Sion to judge the mount of Esau: and the kingdom shall be for the Lord. 2Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amathi, saying:3Arise and go to Ninive, the great city, and preach in it: For the wickedness thereof is come up before me.…
Cross References
Matthew 12:41
The men of Ninive shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they did penance at the preaching of Jonas. And behold a greater than Jonas here.

Genesis 10:11
Out of that land came forth Assur, and built Ninive, and the streets of the city, and Chale.

Genesis 18:20
And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous.

2 Kings 19:36
And Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, departing, went away, and he returned and abode in Ninive.

Isaiah 37:37
And Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians went out and departed, and returned, and dwelt in Ninive.

Isaiah 58:1
Cry, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their wicked doings, and the house of Jacob their sins.

Jeremiah 20:9
Then I said: I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name: and there came in my heart as a burning fire, shut up in my bones, and I was wearied, not being able to bear it.

Ezekiel 3:5
For thou art not sent to a people of a profound speech, and of an unknown tongue, but to the house of Israel:

Hosea 7:2
And lest they may say in their hearts, that I remember all their wickedness: their own devices now have beset them about, they have been done before my face.

Jonah 3:3
Arise, and go to Ninive, the great city: and preach in it the preaching that I bid thee.

Nahum 1:1
The burden of Ninive. The book of the vision of Nahum, the Elcesite.

Zephaniah 2:13
And he will stretch out his hand upon the north, and will destroy Assyria: and he will make the beautiful city a wilderness, and as a place not passable, and as a desert.

Jonah 1:1
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