Whales

God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Yahweh 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 you put a guard over me?

There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.

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

Now Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, — read the full passage →

Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations: yet you are as a monster in the seas; and you broke out with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.

You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

Now Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.

in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish’s belly. — read the full passage →

Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish’s belly.

He who testifies these things says, “Yes, I come quickly.” Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will also the Son of Man be to this generation.

For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

Speak and say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, that has said, ‘My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.’

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

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

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.

Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail,

“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

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

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

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;

He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to Yahweh’s word, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath Hepher.

The firstborn of his herd, majesty is his. His horns are the horns of the wild ox. With them he will push all of the peoples, to the ends of the earth. They are the ten thousands of Ephraim. They are the thousands of Manasseh.”

I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them.

About 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, nor turning shadow.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” He left them, and departed.

Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”

But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.

Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew sword: and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew sword.