Yunus 1

¹Ve Rab'bin sözü Amathi oğlu Yunus'a şöyle gelip vuku buldu:

²"Kalk, büyük şehir Nineve'ye git ve onun içinde ilan et; çünkü kötülüğünün haykırışı huzuruma yükseldi."

³Fakat Yunus, Rab'bin huzurundan Tarşiş'e kaçmak üzere kalktı; Yafa'ya inip Tarşiş'e giden bir gemi buldu, geminin ücretini ödedi ve onlarla birlikte Rab'bin huzurundan uzaklaşarak Tarşiş'e yelken açmak üzere gemiye bindi.

⁴Ancak Rab denizin üzerine büyük bir rüzgâr uyandırdı ve denizde öyle büyük bir fırtına koptu ki, gemi parçalanma tehlikesiyle karşı karşıya kaldı.

⁵Denizciler korktu, her biri kendi tanrısına feryat etti ve kendilerini hafifletmek için gemideki yükleri denize attılar; Yunus ise geminin ambarına inmiş, yatıp uyumuştu ve horlamaktaydı.

⁶Pruva gözcüsü onun yanına gelip şöyle dedi: "Neden horluyorsun? Kalk, Tanrı'na yakar! Belki Tanrı bizi kurtarır da yok olmayız."

⁷Sonra birbirlerine, "Gelin, kura çekelim de bu kötülüğün aramızda kimin yüzünden olduğunu anlayalım" dediler; kura çektiler ve kura Yunus'un üzerine düştü.

⁸Bunun üzerine ona, "Bize bildir, bu kötülük aramızda kimin yüzünden oldu? İşin nedir, nereden geliyorsun, nereye gidiyorsun, hangi ülkeden ve hangi halktansın?" dediler.

⁹O da onlara, "Ben Rab'bin kölesiyim" dedi, "Denizi ve karayı yaratan göklerin Tanrısı Rab'be ibadet ederim."

¹⁰O zaman adamları büyük bir korku aldı ve ona, "Bu yaptığın nedir?" dediler; çünkü adamlar onun Rab'bin huzurundan kaçmakta olduğunu anlamışlardı, zira bunu kendilerine bildirmişti.

¹¹Ona, "Denizin üzerimizden sakinleşmesi için sana ne yapalım?" dediler; çünkü deniz kabarıyor ve daha da büyük dalgalar uyandırıyordu.

¹²Yunus onlara, "Beni kaldırıp denize fırlatın" dedi, "O zaman deniz üzerinizden sakinleşir; çünkü biliyorum ki, bu büyük fırtına benim yüzümden üzerinize geldi."

¹³Yine de adamlar karaya geri dönmek için çabaladılar ama başaramadılar; çünkü deniz onlara karşı daha da kabarıyor ve fırtına uyandırıyordu.

¹⁴Bunun üzerine Rab'be feryat edip dediler ki: "Yalvarırız ey Rab, bu adamın canı yüzünden yok olmayalım ve üzerimize suçsuz kanı yükleme! Çünkü sen, ey Rab, nasıl dilediysen öyle yaptın."

¹⁵Böylece Yunus'u kaldırıp denize fırlattılar ve deniz kendi çalkantısından durup sakinleşti.

¹⁶Adamlar Rab'den büyük bir korkuyla korktular; Rab'be kurban sundular ve adaklar adadılar.

¹ΚΑΙ ἐγένετο λόγος Κυρίου πρὸς ᾿Ιωνᾶν τὸν τοῦ ᾿Αμαθὶ λέγων·

²ἀνάστηθι καὶ πορεύθητι εἰς Νινευὴ τὴν πόλιν τὴν μεγάλην καὶ κήρυξον ἐν αὐτῇ, ὅτι ἀνέβη ἡ κραυγὴ τῆς κακίας αὐτῆς πρός με.

³καὶ ἀνέστη ᾿Ιωνᾶς τοῦ φυγεῖν εἰς Θαρσὶς ἐκ προσώπου Κυρίου καὶ κατέβη εἰς ᾿Ιόππην καὶ εὗρε πλοῖον βαδίζον εἰς Θαρσὶς καὶ ἔδωκε τὸν ναῦλον αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐνέβη εἰς αὐτὸ τοῦ πλεῦσαι μετ᾿ αὐτῶν εἰς Θαρσὶς ἐκ προσώπου Κυρίου.

⁴καὶ Κύριος ἐξήγειρε πνεῦμα μέγα εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν, καὶ ἐγένετο κλύδων μέγας ἐν τῇ θαλάσσῃ, καὶ τὸ πλοῖον ἐκινδύνευε τοῦ συντριβῆναι.

⁵καὶ ἐφοβήθησαν οἱ ναυτικοὶ καὶ ἀνεβόησαν ἕκαστος πρὸς τὸν θεὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐκβολὴν ἐποιήσαντο τῶν σκευῶν τῶν ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν τοῦ κουφισθῆναι ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν. ᾿Ιωνᾶς δὲ κατέβη εἰς τὴν κοίλην τοῦ πλοίου καὶ ἐκάθευδε καὶ ἔρρεγχε.

⁶καὶ προσῆλθε πρὸς αὐτὸν ὁ πρωρεὺς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· τί σὺ ῥέγχεις; ἀνάστα καὶ ἐπικαλοῦ τὸν Θεόν σου, ὅπως διασώσῃ ὁ Θεὸς ἡμᾶς καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀπολώμεθα.

⁷καὶ εἶπεν ἕκαστος πρὸς τὸν πλησίον αὐτοῦ· δεῦτε βάλωμεν κλήρους καὶ ἐπιγνῶμεν τίνος ἕνεκεν ἡ κακία αὕτη ἐστὶν ἐν ἡμῖν; καὶ ἔβαλον κλήρους, καὶ ἔπεσεν ὁ κλῆρος ἐπὶ ᾿Ιωνᾶν.

⁸καὶ εἶπον πρὸς αὐτόν· ἀπάγγειλον ἡμῖν τίνος ἕνεκεν ἡ κακία αὕτη ἐστὶν ἐν ἡμῖν; τίς σου ἡ ἐργασία ἐστί; καὶ πόθεν ἔρχῃ, καὶ τοῦ πορεύῃ, καὶ ἐκ ποίας χώρας καὶ ἐκ ποίου λαοῦ εἶ σύ;

⁹καὶ εἶπε πρὸς αὐτούς· δοῦλος Κυρίου εἰμὶ ἐγὼ καὶ τὸν Κύριον Θεὸν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἐγὼ σέβομαι, ὃς ἐποίησε τὴν θάλασσαν καὶ τὴν ξηράν.

¹⁰καὶ ἐφοβήθησαν οἱ ἄνδρες φόβον μέγαν καὶ εἶπον πρὸς αὐτόν· τί τοῦτο ἐποίησας; διότι ἔγνωσαν οἱ ἄνδρες, ὅτι ἐκ προσώπου Κυρίου ἦν φεύγων, ὅτι ἀπήγγειλεν αὐτοῖς.

¹¹καὶ εἶπον πρὸς αὐτόν· τί ποιήσομέν σοι καὶ κοπάσει ἡ θάλασσα ἀφ᾿ ἡμῶν; ὅτι ἡ θάλασσα ἐπορεύετο καὶ ἐξήγειρε μᾶλλον κλύδωνα.

¹²καὶ εἶπεν ᾿Ιωνᾶς πρὸς αὐτούς· ἄρατέ με καὶ ἐμβάλετέ με εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν, καὶ κοπάσει ἡ θάλασσα ἀφ᾿ ὑμῶν· διότι ἔγνωκα ἐγὼ ὅτι δι᾿ ἐμὲ ὁ κλύδων ὁ μέγας οὗτος ἐφ᾿ ὑμᾶς ἐστι.

¹³καὶ παρεβιάζοντο οἱ ἄνδρες τοῦ ἐπιστρέψαι πρὸς τὴν γῆν καὶ οὐκ ἠδύναντο, ὅτι ἡ θάλασσα ἐπορεύετο καὶ ἐξηγείρετο μᾶλλον ἐπ᾿ αὐτούς.

¹⁴καὶ ἀνεβόησαν πρὸς Κύριον καὶ εἶπαν· μηδαμῶς, Κύριε, μὴ ἀπολώμεθα ἕνεκεν τῆς ψυχῆς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου τούτου, καὶ μὴ δῷς ἐφ᾿ ἡμᾶς αἷμα δίκαιον, διότι σύ, Κύριε, ὃν τρόπον ἐβούλου, πεποίηκας.

¹⁵καὶ ἔλαβον τὸν ᾿Ιωνᾶν καὶ ἐξέβαλον αὐτὸν εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν, καὶ ἔστη ἡ θάλασσα ἐκ τοῦ σάλου αὐτῆς.

¹⁶καὶ ἐφοβήθησαν οἱ ἄνδρες φόβῳ μεγάλῳ τὸν Κύριον καὶ ἔθυσαν θυσίαν τῷ Κυρίῳ καὶ ηὔξαντο τὰς εὐχάς.

¹Now the word of the Lord came to Jonas the son of Amathi, saying,

²Rise, and go to Nineve, the great city, and preach in it; for the cry of its wickedness is come up to me.

³But Jonas rose up to flee to Tharsis from the presence of the Lord. And he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tharsis: and he paid his fare, and went up into it, to sail with them to Tharsis from the presence of the Lord.

⁴And the Lord raised up a wind on the sea; and there was a great storm on the sea, and the ship was in danger of being broken.

⁵And the sailors were alarmed, and cried every one to his god, and cast out the wares that were in the ship into the sea, that it might be lightened of them. But Jonas was gone down into the hold of the ship, and was asleep, and snored.

⁶And the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, Why snorest thou? arise, and call upon thy God, that God may save us, and we perish not.

⁷And each man said to his neighbour, Come, let us cast lots, and find out for whose sake this mischief is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonas.

⁸And they said to him, Tell us what is thine occupation, and whence comest thou, and of what country and what people art thou?

⁹And he said to them, I am a servant of the Lord; and I worship the Lord God of heaven, who made the sea, and the dry [land].

¹⁰Then the men feared exceedingly, and said to him, What is this [that] thou hast done? for the men knew that he was fleeing from the face of the Lord, because he had told them.

¹¹And they said to him, What shall we do to thee, that the sea may be calm to us? for the sea rose, and lifted its wave exceedingly.

¹²And Jonas said to them, Take me up, and cast me into the sea, and the sea shall be calm to you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.

¹³And the men tried hard to return to the land, and were not able: for the sea rose and grew more and more tempestuous against them.

¹⁴And they cried to the Lord, and said, Forbid it, Lord: let us not perish for the sake of this man’s life, and bring not righteous blood upon us: for thou, Lord, hast done as thou wouldest.

¹⁵So they took Jonas, and cast him out into the sea: and the sea ceased from its raging.

¹⁶And the men feared the Lord very greatly, and offered a sacrifice to the Lord, and vowed vows.