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Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord , the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.

When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said, "O Lord God , please forgive! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"

Then I said, "O Lord God , please cease! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"

The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day," declares the Lord God . "So many dead bodies!" "They are thrown everywhere!" "Silence!"

And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.

For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations shall drink continually; they shall drink and swallow, and shall be as though they had never been.

But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord . He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord .

But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up.

So the captain came and said to him, "What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call out to your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we may not perish."

And they said to one another, "Come, let us cast lots, that we may know on whose account this evil has come upon us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging.

So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord . Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey in breadth.

Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish."

Now the Lord God appointed a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant.

But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant, so that it withered.

When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."

For you have kept the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing; so you shall bear the scorn of my people."

So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted.

He brings all of them up with a hook; he drags them out with his net; he gathers them in his dragnet; so he rejoices and is glad.

And the Lord answered me: "Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.