Jonah 1
1 And the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying:
耶和华的话临到亚米太的儿子约拿，说：
2 Rise and go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach in it. For its malice has ascended before my eyes.
“你起来往尼尼微大城去，向其中的居民呼喊，因为他们的恶达到我面前。”
3 And Jonah rose in order to flee from the face of the Lord to Tarshish. And he went down to Joppa and found a ship bound for Tarshish. And he paid its fare, and he went down into it, in order to go with them to Tarshish from the face of the Lord.
约拿却起来，逃往他施去躲避耶和华；下到约帕，遇见一只船，要往他施去。他就给了船价，上了船，要与船上的人同往他施去躲避耶和华。
4 But the Lord sent a great wind into the sea. And a great tempest took place in the sea, and the ship was in danger of being crushed.
然而耶和华使海中起大风，海就狂风大作，甚至船几乎破坏。
5 And the mariners were afraid, and the men cried out to their god. And they threw the containers that were in the ship into the sea in order to lighten it of them. And Jonah went down into the interior of the ship, and he fell into a painful deep sleep.
水手便惧怕，各人哀求自己的神。他们将船上的货物抛在海中，为要使船轻些。约拿已下到底舱，躺卧沉睡。
6 And the helmsman approached him, and he said to him, “Why are you weighed down with sleep? Rise, call upon your God, so perhaps God will be mindful of us and we might not perish.”
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。”
7 And a man said to his shipmate, “Come, and let us cast lots, so that we may know why this disaster is upon us.” And they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
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。
8 And they said to him: “Explain to us what is the reason that this disaster is upon us. What is your work? Which is your country? And where are you going? Or which people are you from?”
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？”
9 And he said to them, “I am Hebrew, and I fear the Lord God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”
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。”
10 And the men were greatly afraid, and they said to him, “Why have you done this?” (For the men knew that he was fleeing from the face of the Lord, because he had told them.)
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。
11 And they said to him, “What are we to do with you, so that the sea will cease for us?” For the sea flowed and swelled.
他们问他说：“我们当向你怎样行，使海浪平静呢？”这话是因海浪越发翻腾。
12 And he said to them, “Take me, and cast me into the sea, and the sea will cease for you. For I know that it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you.”
他对他们说：“你们将我抬起来，抛在海中，海就平静了；我知道你们遭这大风是因我的缘故。”
13 And the men were rowing, so as to return to dry land, but they did not succeed. For the sea flowed and swelled against them.
然而那些人竭力荡桨，要把船拢岸，却是不能，因为海浪越发向他们翻腾。
14 And they cried out to the Lord, and they said, “We beseech you, Lord, do not let us perish for this man’s life, and do not attribute to us innocent blood. For you, Lord, have done just as it pleased you.”
他们便求告耶和华说：“耶和华啊，我们恳求你，不要因这人的性命使我们死亡，不要使流无辜血的罪归与我们；因为你—耶和华是随自己的意旨行事。”
15 And they took Jonah and cast him into the sea. And the sea was stilled from its fury.
他们遂将约拿抬起，抛在海中，海的狂浪就平息了。
16 And the men feared the Lord greatly, and they sacrificed victims to the Lord, and they made vows.
那些人便大大敬畏耶和华，向耶和华献祭，并且许愿。
17 And the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights.
耶和华安排一条大鱼吞了约拿，他在鱼腹中三日三夜。
