Jonah 1:2
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
Jonah 1:2 in other translations
| BSB | “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.” |
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| WEB | “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.” |
| ASV | Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. |
| YLT | ‘Rise, go unto Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim against it that their wickedness hath come up before Me.' |
| DARBY | Arise, go to Nineveh, the 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. |
| Webster | Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. |
What does Jonah 1:2 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jonah 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…
Jonah 1:2 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Jonah 1:2
- Genesis 18:20-21
And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
- Genesis 10:11
Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
- Nahum 1:1
The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
- Isaiah 58:1
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
- Jonah 4:11
And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
- Jonah 3:2
Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
- Zephaniah 2:13-15
And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work. This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
- Ezekiel 3:5-9
For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel; Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee. But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted. Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads. …
- Jeremiah 1:7-10
But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord. Then the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
- Revelation 18:5
For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
- 2 Kings 19:36
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
- Micah 3:8
But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
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- Jonah 1:1
Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
- Jonah 1:2
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
- Jonah 1:3
But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.
Jonah 1:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Levántate, y ve á Nínive, ciudad grande, y pregona contra ella; porque su maldad ha subido delante de mí. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Lève-toi, va à Ninive, la grande ville, et crie contre elle, car leur méchanceté est montée devant moi. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Mache dich auf, gehe nach Ninive, der großen Stadt, und predige wider sie; denn ihre Bosheit ist vor mich heraufgestiegen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Surge, et vade in Niniven, civitatem grandem, et prædica in ea, quia ascendit malitia ejus coram me. |