"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," Jonah 1:6. Jonah has been the subject of God's intervention following his disobedience and running away. First it was the wind which God sent out against the ship that he sailed on and the storm that the wind caused. Now he is being challenged by the shipmaster or captain. In this verse we have first of all we have the prophet censured for sleeping by the captain and then we have the prophet commanded to prayer.