Upon receiving an assignment to proclaim a judgment message to the people of Nineveh, Jonah “proceeded to get up and run away to Tarshish from before Jehovah. ” Baruch, the scribal secretary of the prophet Jeremiah, complained of growing weary.
भविष्यवक्‍ता यिर्मयाह के लिए लिखनेवाले मददगार बारूक ने शिकायत की कि वह थककर पस्त हो चुका है ।