Jonah 1

Chap. I. Ver. 1—16. The Prophet declaims against idolatry, and exhorts to repentance and humility—This chapter contains prophecies, first against Samaria, whose fate the Prophet laments in the dress of a professed mourner, and with the doleful cries of the most mournful animals; and then, secondly, against Jerusalem, which is threatened with the like stroke; namely, the invasion of Sennacherib. Other cities of Judah are also threatened, and their dangers represented to be so great, as to oblige them to have recourse for protection even to their enemies, the Philistines. But all resources are declared vain; their captivity is decreed, and their crimes and obduracy have rendered it necessary.