Holy Scripture
Jonah 1:2
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“For the same who had been their accuser, and who had said, that "the cry of their wickedness hath ascended up even to heaven," himself again bears testimony of an opposite kind, by saying, "God saw that every one departed from their own evil ways." He does not say, from fornication, or adultery, or theft, but from the…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
2Rise, and go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach in it; for the cry of its wickedness is come up to me.
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In context
1Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
— Jonah 1:2 —
3But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. And he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish: and he paid his fare, and went up into it, to sail with them to Tarshish 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.