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You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.

Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus," says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.

The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself-the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: "I abhor Jacob's pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it."

For behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel," declares the LORD, the God of Hosts, "and they will oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah."

This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king's harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.

And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, "Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?"

This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.

Then I said, "Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?"

So the LORD relented from this plan. "It will not happen either," said the Lord GOD.

This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.

"In that day," declares the Lord GOD, "the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!"

"And in that day," declares the Lord GOD, "I will make the sun go down at noon; and I will darken the earth in the daytime.

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.

Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, 'As surely as your god lives, O Dan,' or, 'As surely as the Way of Beersheba lives'-they will fall, never to rise again."

The Lord, the GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and melts it, and all its dwellers mourn-all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt-

Surely the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," declares the LORD.

I will firmly plant them on their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them," says the LORD your God.

This is the vision of Obadiah: This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom-We have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy has been sent among the nations to say, "Rise up, and let us go to battle against her!"

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.

The captain approached him and said, "How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish."