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My Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself, declares Yahweh, the God of hosts: "I abhor the pride of Jacob and I hate his citadel fortresses and I will deliver the city and its fullness!"

Indeed, I am going to raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, declares Yahweh, the God of hosts. And they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath up to the wadi of the Arabah.

And I will plant them on their land and they will not be uprooted again from their land that I have given to them," says Yahweh your God.

And the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god. And they threw the contents that were in the merchant ship into the sea to lighten it for them. And meanwhile Jonah went down into the hold of the vessel and lay down and fell asleep.

And the captain of the ship approached him and said to him, "Why are you sound asleep? Get up! Call on your god! Perhaps your god will take notice of us and we won't 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."

And Jonah prayed to Yahweh his God from the belly of the fish

I went down to the foundations of the mountains; the Underworld—its bars were around me forever. But you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

And the people of Nineveh believed in God, and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth—from the greatest of them to the least important.

And the human beings and the animals must be covered with sackcloth! And they must call forcefully to God, and each must turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.

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

And God saw their deeds—that they turned from their evil ways—and God changed his mind about the evil that he had said he would bring upon them, and he did not do it.

And he prayed to Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh, was this not what I said while I was in my homeland? Therefore I originally fled to Tarshish, because I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and having great steadfast love, and one who relents concerning calamity.

And Yahweh God appointed a plant, and he made it grow up over Jonah to be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. And Jonah was very glad about the plant.

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

And when the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah's head and he grew faint. And he asked that he could die and said, "My death is better than my life!"

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!"

Then the seers will be disgraced, and those practicing divination will be put to shame. All of them will cover their lips, for there is no reply from God.

And many nations will come and say, "Come! Let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the temple of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways, and that we may walk in his paths," for the law will go out from Zion, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.

For all the nations walk, each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God, forever and ever.