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So the men feared Yahweh greatly, and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh and made vows.

So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an extraordinarily great city—a journey of three days across.

Who knows? God may relent and change his mind and turn from his blazing anger so that we will not perish."

And so then, Yahweh, please take my life from me, because for me death is better than life!"

So God appointed a worm at daybreak the next day, and it attacked the plant, and it withered.

So God said to Jonah, "Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?" And he said, "It is right for me to be angry enough to die!"

So I will make Samaria as a heap of rubble in the field, a place for planting a vineyard. And I will pour down her stones into the valley and uncover her foundations.

So then, why do you shout a loud shout? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished that pangs like a woman in labor have seized you?

O my people, remember what Balak the king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you might know the righteous acts of Yahweh."

For you have observed the regulations of Omri and all the works of the house of Ahab. And you have walked in their counsels, so that I am making you a desolation and your inhabitants an object of scorn. So you will bear the scorn of my people.

Yahweh says this: "Even though they are powerful and likewise many, even so they will be cut off and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no longer.

Then Yahweh answered me and said, "Write the vision and make it plain on the tablet so that it might be read quickly.

"I have cut off nations; their strongholds are deserted. I have laid waste their streets, so that none pass through. Their cities have been destroyed and are without a man, without an inhabitant.

And so then, thus says Yahweh of hosts: ‘Consider your ways!

Go up the mountain and bring wood and build the house so that I may be pleased with it and honored,' says Yahweh.

I will shake all the nations so that the treasure of all the nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,' says Yahweh of hosts.

And Haggai answered and said, "‘So it is with this people, and with this nation before me,' declares Yahweh, ‘and so it is with every kind of work of their hands; and what they offer there is unclean.

However, did not my words and my regulations which I commanded my servants the prophets overtake your ancestors? And they repented and said, ‘Yahweh of hosts planned to do with us according to our ways, and according to our deeds so he has dealt with us.'"'"

and I asked, "What are these coming to do?" And he answered, saying, "These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to frighten them, to strike down the horns of the nations that lifted a horn against the land of Judah to scatter it."

‘Thus, just as I called and they would not hear, so they will call and I will not hear,' says Yahweh of hosts.