Jonah 1:2-4

New Catholic Bible

² “Go immediately to the great city of Nineveh and denounce it, for their wickedness has revealed itself to me.” ³ But Jonah decided to run away from the Lord and flee to Tarshish.^[a] He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship that was about to sail to Tarshish. He paid his fare and boarded the ship to journey with the sailors to Tarshish, and away from the presence of the Lord.

⁴ However, the Lord caused a violent wind to stir up the sea, and such a furious storm arose that the ship seemed to be on the verge of breaking up.