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This is what the Lord God showed me: He was making locusts. This was at the time the second crop began to grow, after the king's people had cut the first crop.

Before the locusts could eat all the grass in the country, I said, "Lord God , I beg you, forgive us! Jacob cannot survive! He is too small!"

This is what the Lord God showed me: I saw the Lord God calling for judgment by fire. The fire destroyed the ocean and was beginning to eat up the land.

But I said, "Lord God , stop, I beg you! Jacob cannot survive! He is too small!"

Then the Lord changed his mind about this. The Lord God said, "It will not happen either."

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

Their temple songs will become funeral songs." This is what the Lord God said. "There will be dead bodies everywhere. In silence, people will take out the dead bodies and throw them onto the pile."

The Lord God also said, "At that time I will make the sun set at noon and make the land dark on a clear day.

The Lord God says, "Look, the days are coming when I will cause a famine in the land. The people will not be hungry for bread. They will not be thirsty for water. No, they will be hungry for words from the Lord .

They made promises by the sin of Samaria, They said, ‘Dan, as surely as your god lives, we promise ….' And they said, ‘As surely as the god of Beersheba lives, we promise ….' But they will fall and never get up again."

The Lord God All-Powerful will touch the land, and the land will melt. Then all the people who live in the land will cry for the dead. The land will rise and fall like the Nile River in Egypt.

The Lord God is watching this sinful kingdom. The Lord says, "I will wipe Israel off the face of the earth, but I will never completely destroy Jacob's family.

I will plant my people on their land, and never again will they be pulled up out of the land that I gave them." This is what the Lord your God said.

This is the vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord God says about Edom: We heard a report from the Lord . A messenger was sent to the nations. He said, "Let's go fight against Edom."

The men wanted to make the boat lighter to stop it from sinking, so they began throwing the cargo into the sea. The sailors were very afraid. Each man began praying to his god. Jonah had gone down into the boat to lie down, and he went to sleep.

The captain of the boat saw Jonah and said, "Wake up! Why are you sleeping? Pray to your god! Maybe your god will hear your prayer and save us!"

Jonah said to them, "I am a Hebrew. I worship the Lord , the God of heaven, who made the land and the sea."

Jonah told the men he was running away from the Lord . The men became very afraid when they learned this. They asked Jonah, "What terrible thing did you do against your God?"

While Jonah was in the stomach of the fish, he prayed to the Lord his God. He said,

I was at the bottom of the sea, the place where the mountains begin. I thought I was locked in this prison forever, but the Lord my God took me out of my grave. God, you gave me life again!