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Thus says Yahweh: For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

Thus says Yahweh: For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers walked:

Thus says Yahweh: For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes-

Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; [and] because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel.

Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said to him, What is this that you have done? For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of Yahweh, because he had told them.

And Yahweh God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his evil case. So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd.

For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.

Woe to those that devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! when the morning is light, they do it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Arise, and depart; for this is not your resting-place; because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.

Therefore I also have smitten you with a grievous wound; I have made you desolate because of your sins.

I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause, and executes judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, [and] I shall see his righteousness.

Yet the land shall be desolate because of those that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

They shall lick the dust like a serpent; like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their close places; they shall come with fear to Yahweh our God, and shall be afraid because of you.

Who is a God like you, that pardons iniquity, and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving-kindness.

because of the multitude of the prostitutions of the well-favored prostitute, the mistress of witchcrafts, that sells nations through her prostitutions, and families through her witchcrafts.

You also shall be drunk; you shall be hid; you also shall seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his drag; because by them his portion is fat, and his food plenteous.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and shall not lie: though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.

Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, because of man's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all that dwell therein.

For the violence done to Lebanon shall cover you, and the destruction of the beasts, which will frighten you; because of man's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all that dwell therein.