“Jonah said to them.
‘Pick me up!
Throw me
Into the sea!
Then the sea
Will quiet down
For you.
I know
That it is because of me
That this great storm
Has come upon you.’”
Jonah was quite frank with these sailors. He told them to pick him up and throw him into the sea. Then the sea would quiet down for them. He knew that this great storm came to them because of him, since Yahweh was mad at him.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 