9He answered, "I am a Hebrew and I worship the Lord , the God of heaven, who made the sea and the land."


In Context

6 The captain went to him and said, "How can you sleep? Get up and call on your god! Maybe he will take notice of us, and we will not perish."

7 Then the sailors said to each other, "Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity." They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah.

8 So they asked him, "Tell us, who is responsible for making all this trouble for us? What do you do? Where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?"

9 He answered, "I am a Hebrew and I worship the Lord , the God of heaven, who made the sea and the land."

10 This terrified them and they asked, "What have you done?" (They knew he was running away from the Lord , because he had already told them so.)

11 The sea was getting rougher and rougher. So they asked him, "What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?"

Jonah 1:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:9And he said unto them, I [am] an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry [land. ]

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:9And he said unto them, I am a Hebrew, and I fear Jehovah, the God of the heavens, who hath made the sea and the dry land.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:9And he said to them: I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord the God of heaven, who made both the sea and the dry land.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:9And he said unto them, I am a Hebrew; and I fear Jehovah, the God of heaven, who hath made the sea and the dry land.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:9And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:9And he said to them, I am a Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who hath made the sea and the dry land.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:9He said to them, |I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:9And he saith unto them, 'A Hebrew I am, and Jehovah, God of the heavens, I am reverencing, who made the sea and the dry land.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:9And he said to them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which has made the sea and the dry land.