Quotes from Jonah

9 notable lines from Jonah · c. 400 BCE

Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Jonah 1:17 (KJV)

Quotations follow the King James Version translation (Oxford University Press, 1611) — our recommended edition.

  1. 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?

    The LORD's closing words, Jonah 4:11 (KJV)

  2. Out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

    Jonah's prayer, Jonah 2:2 (KJV)

  3. Salvation is of the LORD.

    Jonah's prayer, Jonah 2:9 (KJV)

  4. Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

    Jonah's preaching to Nineveh, Jonah 3:4 (KJV)

  5. And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

    Jonah 2:10 (KJV)

  6. Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

    The word of the LORD to Jonah, Jonah 1:2 (KJV)

  7. I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.

    Jonah to the mariners, Jonah 1:9 (KJV)

  8. And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief.

    Jonah 4:6 (KJV)