Jonah 4:5 Cross References

Jonah 4:5

5: Then Jonah went out to the east side of the city and made a shelter to sit under as he waited to see if anything would happen to the city.

There he came to a cave, where he spent the night. But the LORD said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"

When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. And a voice said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"

People scoff at me and say, "What is this `message from the LORD' you keep talking about? Why don't your predictions come true?"
LORD, I have not abandoned my job as a shepherd for your people. I have not urged you to send disaster. It is your message I have given them, not my own.

But as they came closer to Jerusalem and Jesus saw the city ahead, he began to cry.
"I wish that even today you would find the way of peace. But now it is too late, and peace is hidden from you.
Before long your enemies will build ramparts against your walls and encircle you and close in on you.
They will crush you to the ground, and your children with you. Your enemies will not leave a single stone in place, because you have rejected the opportunity God offered you."

The next morning Abraham was up early and hurried out to the place where he had stood in the LORD's presence.
He looked out across the plain to Sodom and Gomorrah and saw columns of smoke and fumes, as from a furnace, rising from the cities there.

I was angry and punished these greedy people. I withdrew myself from them, but they went right on sinning.

And I can't stop! If I say I'll never mention the LORD or speak in his name, his word burns in my heart like a fire. It's like a fire in my bones! I am weary of holding it in!

Fearing for their lives, the desperate sailors shouted to their gods for help and threw the cargo overboard to lighten the ship. And all this time Jonah was sound asleep down in the hold.

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