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So it will be done to you, Bethel,because of your extreme evil.At dawn the king of Israel will be totally destroyed.

Ephraim has provoked bitter anger,so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on himand repay him for his contempt.

So I will be like a lion to them;I will lurk like a leopard on the path.

Take words of repentance with youand return to the Lord.Say to him: “Forgive all our iniquityand accept what is good,so that we may repay youwith praise from our lips.

Who knows? He may turn and relentand leave a blessing behind him,so you can offer grain and wineto the Lord your God.

So I will send you into exile beyond Damascus.” The Lord, the God of Armies, is his name. He has spoken.

When the locusts finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, “Lord God, please forgive! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?”

Then I said, “Lord God, please stop! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?”

So Amos answered Amaziah, “I was not a prophet or the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman, and I took care of sycamore figs.

asking, “When will the New Moon be overso we may sell grain,and the Sabbath,so we may market wheat?We can reduce the measurewhile increasing the priceand cheat with dishonest scales.

so that they may possessthe remnant of Edomand all the nationsthat bear my name —

As you have drunk on my holy mountain,so all the nations will drink continually.They will drink and gulp downand be as though they had never been.

“Come on!” the sailors said to each other. “Let’s cast lots. Then we’ll know who is to blame for this trouble we’re in.” So they cast lots, and the lot singled out Jonah.

So they said to him, “What should we do to you so that the sea will calm down for us?” For the sea was getting worse and worse.

He answered them, “Pick me up and throw me into the sea so that it will calm down for you, for I know that I’m to blame for this great storm that is against you.”

So they called out to the Lord: “Please, Lord, don’t let us perish because of this man’s life, and don’t charge us with innocent blood! For you, Lord, have done just as you pleased.”

Who knows? God may turn and relent; he may turn from his burning anger so that we will not perish.

God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—so God relented from the disaster he had threatened them with. And he did not do it.

As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind. The sun beat down on Jonah’s head so much that he almost fainted, and he wanted to die. He said, “It’s better for me to die than to live.”

So the Lord said, “You cared about the plant, which you did not labor over and did not grow. It appeared in a night and perished in a night.