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but don't prophesy anymore here at Bethel. This is the king's holy place, and it is the nation's temple."

But the Lord took me away from tending the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'

The Lord God says: "The days are coming when I will cause a time of hunger in the land. The people will not be hungry for bread or thirsty for water, but they will be hungry for words from the Lord .

They will wander from the Mediterranean Sea to the Dead Sea, from the north to the east. They will search for the word of the Lord , but they won't find it.

If they are captured and taken away by their enemies, I will command the sword to kill them. I will keep watch over them, but I will keep watch to give them trouble, not to do them good."

I, the Lord God , am watching the sinful kingdom Israel. I will destroy it from off the earth, but I will not completely destroy Jacob's descendants," says the Lord .

"I am giving the command to scatter the nation of Israel among all nations. It will be like someone shaking grain through a strainer, but not even a tiny stone falls through.

"The kingdom of David is like a fallen tent, but in that day I will set it up again and mend its broken places. I will rebuild its ruins as it was before.

But you, Edom, will really lose everything! People will find all your hidden treasures!

But on Mount Zion some will escape the judgment, and it will be a holy place. The people of Jacob will take back their land from those who took it from them.

The people of Jacob will be like a fire and the people of Joseph like a flame. But the people of Esau will be like dry stalks. The people of Jacob will set them on fire and burn them up. There will be no one left of the people of Esau." This will happen because the Lord has said it.

But Jonah got up to run away from the Lord by going to Tarshish. He went to the city of Joppa, where he found a ship that was going to the city of Tarshish. Jonah paid for the trip and went aboard, planning to go to Tarshish to run away from the Lord .

But the Lord sent a great wind on the sea, which made the sea so stormy that the ship was in danger of breaking apart.

The sailors were afraid, and each man cried to his own god. They began throwing the cargo from the ship into the sea to make the ship lighter. But Jonah had gone down far inside the ship to lie down, and he fell fast asleep.

Instead, the men tried to row the ship back to the land, but they could not, because the sea was becoming more stormy.

I said, ‘I was driven out of your presence, but I hope to see your Holy Temple again.'

When I went down to where the mountains of the sea start to rise, I thought I was locked in this prison forever, but you saved me from the pit of death, Lord my God.

But I will praise and thank you while I give sacrifices to you, and I will keep my promises to you. Salvation comes from the Lord !"

But every person and animal should be covered with rough cloth, and people should cry loudly to God. Everyone must turn away from evil living and stop doing harm all the time.

But this made Jonah very unhappy, and he became angry.