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This is what the Lord GOD says: "The city that marches out a thousand strong will only see a hundred return, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel."

But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.

"Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood-

But never prophesy at Bethel again, because it is the sanctuary of the king and the temple of the kingdom."

But the LORD took me from following the flock and said to me, 'Go, prophesy to My people Israel.'

Behold, the days are coming," declares the Lord GOD, "when I will send a famine on the land-not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.

"For surely I will give the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, but not a pebble will reach the ground.

But how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!

But you should not gloat in that day, your brother's day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.

But on Mount Zion there will be deliverance, and it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will reclaim their possession.

Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, and the house of Joseph a burning flame; but the house of Esau will be stubble-Jacob will set it ablaze and consume it. Therefore no survivor will remain from the house of Esau." For the LORD has spoken.

The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the ship's cargo into the sea to lighten the load. But Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.

Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea was raging against them more and more.

To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!

But I, with the voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to You. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation is from the LORD!"

But the LORD replied, "Have you any right to be angry?"

But the LORD said, "You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.

For the residents of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.