Study Desk

When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said, "O Lord God , forgive, I beg you! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"

Then I said, "O Lord God , cease, I beg you! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"

saying, "When will the new moon be over so that we may sell grain; and the sabbath, so that we may offer wheat for sale? We will make the ephah small and the shekel great, and practice deceit with false balances,

Your warriors shall be shattered, O Teman, so that everyone from Mount Esau will be cut off.

But Jonah set out to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord . He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid his fare and went on board, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord .

The captain came and said to him, "What are you doing sound asleep? Get up, call on your god! Perhaps the god will spare us a thought so that we do not perish."

The sailors said to one another, "Come, let us cast lots, so that we may know on whose account this calamity has come upon us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

Then the men were even more afraid, and said to him, "What is this that you have done!" For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the Lord , because he had told them so.

So they picked Jonah up and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.

So Jonah set out and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord . Now Nineveh was an exceedingly large city, a three days' walk across.

Who knows? God may relent and change his mind; he may turn from his fierce anger, so that we do not perish."

The Lord God appointed a bush, and made it come up over Jonah, to give shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort; so Jonah was very happy about the bush.

But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the bush, so that it withered.

When the sun rose, God prepared a sultry east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint and asked that he might die. He said, "It is better for me to die than to live."

For you have kept the statutes of Omri and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you have followed their counsels. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of hissing; so you shall bear the scorn of my people.

So the law becomes slack and justice never prevails. The wicked surround the righteous— therefore judgment comes forth perverted.

The enemy brings all of them up with a hook; he drags them out with his net, he gathers them in his seine; so he rejoices and exults.

Then the Lord answered me and said: Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so that a runner may read it.

I have cut off nations; their battlements are in ruins; I have laid waste their streets so that no one walks in them; their cities have been made desolate, without people, without inhabitants.

as on a day of festival. I will remove disaster from you, so that you will not bear reproach for it.