10. The sailors were terrified when they heard this, for he had already told them he was running away from the lord. “Oh, why did you do it?” they groaned.
11. And since the storm was getting worse all the time, they asked him, “What should we do to you to stop this storm?”
12. “Throw me into the sea,” Jonah said, “and it will become calm again. I know that this terrible storm is all my fault.”
13. Instead, the sailors rowed even harder to get the ship to the land. But the stormy sea was too violent for them, and they couldn’t make it.
14. Then they cried out to the lord, Jonah’s God. “O lord,” they pleaded, “don’t make us die for this man’s sin. And don’t hold us responsible for his death. O lord, you have sent this storm upon him for your own good reasons.”