25 He spoke and raised a stormy wind
that stirred up the waves of the sea.[a](A)

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  1. 107:25 Lit of it

25 For he spoke(A) and stirred up a tempest(B)
    that lifted high the waves.(C)

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25 For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.

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The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his god.(A) They threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load.(B) Meanwhile, Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel and had stretched out and fallen into a deep sleep.(C)

The captain approached him and said, “What are you doing sound asleep? Get up! Call to your god.[a](D) Maybe this god will consider us,(E) and we won’t perish.”

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  1. 1:6 Or God

All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship.(A)

But Jonah had gone below deck, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep. The captain went to him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call(B) on your god! Maybe he will take notice of us so that we will not perish.”(C)

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Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.

So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

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