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Therefore they shall now go captive with the first that go captive; and the revelry of those that stretched themselves shall pass away.

And it shall come to pass, if ten men remain in one house, that they shall die.

For, look, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, says Yahweh, the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah.

And it came to pass that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord Yahweh, forgive, I urge you: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.

And the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day, says the Lord Yahweh: the dead bodies shall be many: in every place they shall cast them forth with silence.

And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of Yahweh, and shall not find it.

Those that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, As your god, O Dan, lives; and, As the pilgrimage of Beer-sheba lives; they shall fall, and never rise up again.

Though they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.

And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there; and though they are hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.

And though they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good.

that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations that are called by my name, says Yahweh that does this.

And I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

And I will plant them on their land, and they shall no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them, says Yahweh your God.

For as you have drank on my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually; yes, they shall drink, and swallow down, and shall be as though they had not been.

And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall burn among them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining to the house of Esau; for Yahweh has spoken it.

And those of the South shall possess the mount of Esau, and those of the lowland the Philistines; and they shall possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria; and Benjamin [shall possess] Gilead.

Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man to his god; and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it to them. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.

And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is on us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

Then they said to him, Tell us, we pray you, for whose cause this evil is on us; what is your occupation? and where do you come from? what is your country? and of what people are you?

Then they said to him, What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us? for the sea grew more and more tempestuous.