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I will force you to march as captives beyond Damascus. I, the Lord God All-Powerful, have spoken!

The Lord God All-Powerful has sworn by his own name: "You descendants of Jacob make me angry by your pride, and I hate your fortresses. And so I will surrender your city and possessions to your enemies."

But the Lord God All-Powerful will send a nation to attack you people of Israel. They will capture Lebo-Hamath in the north, Arabah Creek in the south, and everything in between.

The Lord God showed me that he is going to send locusts to attack your crops. It will happen after the king has already been given his share of the grain and before the rest of the grain has been harvested.

The Lord God showed me a basket of ripe fruit

On that day, I, the Lord God, will make the sun go down at noon, and I will turn daylight into darkness.

When the Lord God All-Powerful touches the earth, it melts, and its people mourn. God makes the earth rise and then fall, just like the Nile River.

Israel, I am the Lord God, and the Ethiopians are no less important to me than you are. I brought you out of Egypt, but I also brought the Philistines from Crete and the Arameans from Kir.

I'll plant your roots deep in the land I have given you, and you won't ever be uprooted again. I, the Lord God, have spoken!

The Lord God gave Obadiah a message about Edom, and this is what we heard: "I, the Lord , have sent a messenger with orders for the nations to attack Edom."

The ship's captain went to him and said, "How can you sleep at a time like this? Get up and pray to your God! Maybe he will have pity on us and keep us from drowning."

Jonah answered, "I'm a Hebrew, and I worship the Lord God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land."

From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the Lord his God:

I had sunk down below the underwater mountains; I knew that forever, I would be a prisoner there. But, you, Lord God, rescued me from that pit.

All who worship worthless idols turn from the God who offers them mercy.

Then he and his officials sent out an order for everyone in the city to obey. It said: None of you or your animals may eat or drink a thing. Each of you must wear sackcloth, and you must even put sackcloth on your animals. You must also pray to the Lord God with all your heart and stop being sinful and cruel. Maybe God will change his mind and have mercy on us, so we won't be destroyed.

When God saw that the people had stopped doing evil things, he had pity and did not destroy them as he had planned.

So he prayed: Our Lord , I knew from the very beginning that you wouldn't destroy Nineveh. That's why I left my own country and headed for Spain. You are a kind and merciful God, and you are very patient. You always show love, and you don't like to punish anyone, not even foreigners.

Listen, all of you! Earth and everything on it, pay close attention. The Lord God accuses you from his holy temple.

People of many nations will come and say, "Let's go up to the mountain of the Lord God of Jacob and worship in his temple." The Lord will teach us his Law from Jerusalem, and we will obey him.