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This is what the Lord God showed me: He was forming a swarm of locusts, after the king had taken his share of the first crop and the second crop had just begun growing.

So the Lord changed his mind about this. "It will not happen," said the Lord .

So the Lord changed his mind about this too. "It will not happen," said the Lord God .

This is what he showed me: The Lord stood by a straight wall, with a plumb line in his hand.

Amaziah, a priest at Bethel, sent this message to Jeroboam king of Israel: "Amos is making evil plans against you with the people of Israel. He has been speaking so much that this land can't hold all his words.

The Lord has sworn by his name, the Pride of Jacob, "I will never forget everything that these people did.

The Lord builds his upper rooms above the skies; he sets their foundations on the earth. He calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the land. The Lord is his name.

"Edom, do not laugh at your brother Israel in his time of trouble or be happy about the people of Judah when they are destroyed. Do not brag when cruel things are done to them.

The Lord spoke his word to Jonah son of Amittai:

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.

While Jonah was inside the fish, he prayed to the Lord his God and said,

The Lord spoke his word to Jonah again and said,

When the king of Nineveh heard this news, he got up from his throne, took off his robe, and covered himself with rough cloth and sat in ashes to show how upset he was.

He sent this announcement through Nineveh: By command of the king and his important men: No person or animal, herd or flock, will be allowed to taste anything. Do not let them eat food or drink water.

Who knows? Maybe God will change his mind. Maybe he will stop being angry, and then we will not die.

When God saw what the people did, that they stopped doing evil, he changed his mind and did not do what he had warned. He did not punish them.

Hear this, all you nations; listen, earth and all you who live on it. The Lord God will be a witness against you, the Lord from his Holy Temple.

See, the Lord is coming out of his place; he is coming down to walk on the tops of the mountains.

They will cry to the Lord , but he won't answer them. At that time he will hide his face from them, because what they have done is evil."

The Lord says this about the prophets who teach his people the wrong way of living: "If these prophets are given food to eat, they shout, ‘Peace!' But if someone doesn't give them what they ask for, they call for a holy war against that person.