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Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days, but now her people are running away; she cries out: "Stop! Stop!"— but no one turns back.

How long, Lord , must I cry for help? But you do not listen! I call out to you, "Violence!" But you do not intervene!

They sweep by like the wind and pass on. But the one who considers himself a god will be held guilty."

Look, the one whose desires are not upright will faint from exhaustion, but the person of integrity will live because of his faithfulness.

"But all these nations will someday taunt him and ridicule him with proverbial sayings: ‘The one who accumulates what does not belong to him is as good as dead (How long will this go on?)— he who gets rich by extortion!'

But you will become drunk with shame, not majesty. Now it is your turn to drink and expose your uncircumcised foreskin! The cup of wine in the Lord 's right hand is coming to you, and disgrace will replace your majestic glory!

But the Lord is in his majestic palace. The whole earth is speechless in his presence!"

Lord , I have heard the report of what you did; I am awed, Lord , by what you accomplished. In our time repeat those deeds; in our time reveal them again. But when you cause turmoil, remember to show us mercy!

But you trample on the sea with your horses, on the surging, raging waters.

I thought, ‘Certainly you will respect me! Now you will accept correction!' If she had done so, her home would not be destroyed by all the punishments I have threatened. But they eagerly sinned in everything they did.

You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but are never filled. You drink, but are still thirsty. You put on clothes, but are not warm. Those who earn wages end up with holes in their money bags.'"

‘You expected a large harvest, but instead there was little, and when you brought it home it disappeared right away. Why?' asks the Lord who rules over all. ‘Because my temple remains in ruins, thanks to each of you favoring his own house!

"Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the former prophets called out, saying, ‘The Lord who rules over all says, "Turn now from your evil wickedness,"' but they would by no means obey me," says the Lord .

But have my words and statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, not outlived your fathers? Then they paid attention and confessed, ‘The Lord who rules over all has indeed done what he said he would do to us, because of our sinful ways.'"

But I am greatly displeased with the nations that take my grace for granted. I was a little displeased with them, but they have only made things worse for themselves.

I asked, "What are these going to do?" He answered, "These horns are the ones that have scattered Judah so that there is no one to be seen. But the blacksmiths have come to terrify Judah's enemies and cut off the horns of the nations that have thrust themselves against the land of Judah in order to scatter its people."

But I (the Lord says) will be a wall of fire surrounding Jerusalem and the source of glory in her midst.'"

Therefore he told me, "These signify the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by strength and not by power, but by my Spirit,' says the Lord who rules over all."

The chariot with the black horses is going to the north country and the white ones are going after them, but the spotted ones are going to the south country.

"But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear.