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Jonah 1:6

Made Simple — Modern English Translation

Translated by Verse Made Simple Editorial
KJV ORIGINAL
So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE

So the captain found him and was like, 'What are you doing sleeping right now? Get up and pray to your God — maybe he'll actually care about us and we won't all die out here.'

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to ask you to bring God into the situation.

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