Jonah יוֹנָה

Jonah (Yonah) son of Amittai is sent to Nineveh and flees to Tarshish — the only prophet in Scripture who runs from his commission, and the only one whose preaching wholly succeeds. The four brief chapters move from the storm and the lots to the great fish appointed to swallow him, the psalm from its belly, the forty-day warning that turns a city of a hundred and twenty thousand to sackcloth — king and cattle alike — and the gourd, the worm, and the sultry east wind by which the reluctant prophet is taught the measure of divine pity. Read in its entirety at Minchah of Yom Kippur, the book is Scripture's great lesson that repentance overturns decree, and that the Judge of all the earth pities the work of His hands. This volume presents the complete Hebrew text with English translation, a word-by-word interlinear layer with transliteration, roots, and gematria, and the classic commentaries of Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Radak, Metzudat David, Metzudat Zion, Malbim, and Abarbanel, newly translated into English.