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So you, by the help of your God, return; Observe mercy and justice, And wait on your God continually.

"So I will be to them like a lion; Like a leopard by the road I will lurk;

Their appearance is like the appearance of horses; And like swift steeds, so they run.

So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm.

"So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten,The crawling locust,The consuming locust,And the chewing locust, Joel 1:4 ">[fn] My great army which I sent among you.

"So you shall know that I am the LORD your God, Dwelling in Zion My holy mountain. Then Jerusalem shall be holy, And no aliens shall ever pass through her again."

I raised up some of your sons as prophets, And some of your young men as Nazirites. Is it not so, O you children of Israel?" Says the LORD.

Thus says the Lord: "As a shepherd takes from the mouth of a lionTwo legs or a piece of an ear,So shall the children of Israel be taken outWho dwell in Samaria--In the corner of a bed and on the edge [fn] of a couch!

So two or three cities wandered to another city to drink water, But they were not satisfied; Yet you have not returned to Me," Says the LORD.

He rains ruin upon the strong, So that fury comes upon the fortress.

Seek good and not evil, That you may live; So the LORD God of hosts will be with you, As you have spoken.

And so it was, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said: "O Lord GOD, forgive, I pray! Oh, that Jacob may stand, For he is small!"

So the LORD relented concerning this. "It shall not be," said the LORD.

So the LORD relented concerning this. "This also shall not be," said the Lord GOD.

And He said, "Amos, what do you see?" So I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD said to me: "The end has come upon My people Israel; I will not pass by them anymore.

For as you drank on My holy mountain, So shall all the nations drink continually; Yes, they shall drink, and swallow, And they shall be as though they had never been.

But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.

But the LORD sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship was about to be broken up.

So the captain came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God; perhaps your God will consider us, so that we may not perish."

And they said to one another, "Come, let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this trouble has come upon us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.