But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.
"So he paid the fare thereof ..." What an exciting text for a sermon is this!  Whatever soul turns from the Lord finds always that a price is exacted.  The prodigal son paid for his excursion into the far country with a sojourn in the swine pen; Judas paid for his "thirty pieces of silver" with a hangman's rope in the "field of blood" (Acts 1:19):