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And you will have plenty to consume and be satisfiedAnd praise the name of Yahweh your God,Who has dealt wondrously with you;Then My people will never be put to shame.

Thus you will know that I am in the midst of Israel,And that I am Yahweh your God,And there is no other;And My people will never be put to shame.

Then you will know that I am Yahweh your God,Dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain.So Jerusalem will be holy,And strangers will pass through it no more.

On garments taken as pledges they stretch out beside every altar,And in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

Hear and testify against the house of Jacob,"Declares Lord Yahweh, the God of hosts.

"I overthrew you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,And you were like a firebrand delivered from a blaze;Yet you have not returned to Me," declares Yahweh.

"Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel;Because I will do this to you,Prepare to meet your God, O Israel."

For behold, He who forms mountains and creates the windAnd declares to man what are His thoughts,He who makes dawn into gloomAnd treads on the high places of the earth,Yahweh God of hosts is His name.

Seek good and not evil, in order that you may live;And thus may Yahweh God of hosts be with you,Just as you have said!

Hate evil, love good,And set justice at the gate!Perhaps Yahweh God of hostsMay be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Therefore thus says Yahweh God of hosts, the Lord,"There is wailing in all the plazas,And in all the streets they say, ‘Alas! Alas!'They also call the farmer to mourningAnd professional weepers to wailing.

Therefore, I will make you go into exile beyond Damascus," says Yahweh, whose name is the God of hosts.

Lord Yahweh has sworn by Himself, Yahweh God of hosts has declared:"I abhor the lofty pride of JacobAnd hate his citadels;Therefore I will deliver up the city as well as its fullness."

"For behold, I am going to raise up a nation against you,O house of Israel," declares Yahweh God of hosts,"And they will press down on you from Lebo‑hamathTo the brook of the Arabah."

As for those who swear by the guilt of Samaria,Who say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,'And, ‘As the way of Beersheba lives,'They will fall and not rise again."

I will also plant them on their land,And they will not again be uprooted from their landWhich I have given them,"Says Yahweh your God.

Then the sailors became fearful, and every man cried to his god, and they hurled the cargo which was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone down below into the innermost part of the vessel, lain down, and fallen deep asleep.

So the captain came near to him and said to him, "How is it that you are deeply sleeping? Arise, call on your god. Perhaps your god will be concerned about us so that we will not perish."

And he said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land."

Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh his God from the stomach of the fish,