Whales

And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good.

for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

And Jehovah prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?

There go the ships; There is leviathan, whom thou hast formed to play therein.

for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto him;

Now the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, — read the full passage →

Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou wast likened unto a young lion of the nations: yet art thou as a monster in the seas; and thou didst break forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: The young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample under foot.

Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord?

He stretcheth out the north over empty space, And hangeth the earth upon nothing.

Now the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: Thou brakest the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.

In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?

Then Jonah prayed unto Jehovah his God out of the fish’s belly. — read the full passage →

Then Jonah prayed unto Jehovah his God out of the fish’s belly.

He who testifieth these things saith, Yea: I come quickly. Amen: come, Lord Jesus.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

For even as Jonah became a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.

For thou didst cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me; All thy waves and thy billows passed over me.

speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lieth in the midst of his rivers, that hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.

Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath, like a monster, swallowed me up, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies; he hath cast me out.

and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

Lying lips are an abomination to Jehovah; But they that deal truly are his delight.

Who laid the foundations of the earth, That it should not be moved for ever.

Hast thou entered the treasuries of the snow, Or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,

Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of asps.

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

And he said, I called by reason of mine affliction unto Jehovah, And he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I, And thou heardest my voice.

If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there.

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, Who did eat of my bread, Hath lifted up his heel against me.

I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin?

Behold, even the moon hath no brightness, And the stars are not pure in his sight:

He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath unto the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Jehovah, the God of Israel, which he spake by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath-hepher.

The firstling of his herd, majesty is his; And his horns are the horns of the wild-ox: With them he shall push the peoples all of them, eventhe ends of the earth: And they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh.

And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they went up into heaven in the cloud; and their enemies beheld them.

And to these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.

Now faith is assurance ofthingshoped for, a conviction of things not seen. — read the full passage →

An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of Jonah. And he left them, and departed.

Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of Jehovah; and he went down to Joppa, and 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 Jehovah.

And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.