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And in all of the vineyards there will be wailing, because I will pass in your midst," says Yahweh.

And if one's relative, who burns the body, lifts it up and brings the body out of the house and he will say to someone in the innermost part of the house, "Are there any more with you?" and he will say, "None," then he will say, "Silence," because we must not invoke the name of Yahweh.

And then when they finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, "O Lord Yahweh, please forgive! How can Jacob stand, because he is small?"

Then I said, "O Lord Yahweh, please stop! How can Jacob stand, because he is small?"

But do not prophesy again at Bethel, because this is a sanctuary of a king and this is a temple of a kingdom."

In that day the beautiful young women and the young men will faint because of thirst.

And your warriors will be shattered, O Teman, so that everyone from the mountain of Esau will be cut off because of the slaughter!

"Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you and you will be cut off forever.

"Get up! Go to the great city Nineveh and cry out against her, because their evil has come up before me."

Then the men were greatly afraid, and they said to him, "What is this you have done?" because they knew that he was fleeing from the presence of Yahweh (because he had told them).

So they said to him, "What shall we do to you so that the sea may quiet down for us?" because the sea was growing more and more tempestuous.

And he said to them, "Pick me up and hurl me into the sea so that the sea may quiet down for you, because I know that on account of me this great storm has come upon you all."

But the men rowed hard to bring the ship back to the dry land, and they could not do so because the sea was growing more and more tempestuous against them.

So they cried out to Yahweh, and they said, "O Yahweh! Please do not let us perish because of this man's life, and do not make us guilty of innocent blood, because you, O Yahweh, did what you wanted."

And he prayed to Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh, was this not what I said while I was in my homeland? Therefore I originally fled to Tarshish, because I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and having great steadfast love, and one who relents concerning calamity.

And so then, Yahweh, please take my life from me, because for me death is better than life!"

For her wounds are incurable, because it has come to Judah. It has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.

For the inhabitants of Maroth writhed for good, because disaster has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.

Woe to those who plan wickedness and evil deeds upon their beds! In the light of the morning they did it, because they have power in their hands.

Because her rich are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.