²⁵ Jehu said to his aide Bidkar, “Lift him out and throw him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite, for remember when you and I rode side by side behind his father Ahab how the Lord uttered this oracle against him:^(A)

¹⁹ You shall say to him: Thus says the Lord: Have you killed and also taken possession? You shall say to him: Thus says the Lord: In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, dogs will also lick up your blood.”^(A)

Proclamation against Babylon

13 The oracle concerning Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw.^(A)

²⁴ Anyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies in the open country the birds of the air shall eat.”^(A)

²⁵ (Indeed, there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord, urged on by his wife Jezebel. ²⁶ He acted most abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.)^(B)

²⁷ When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth over his bare flesh; he fasted, lay in the sackcloth, and went about dejectedly.^{(C) 28} Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, ²⁹ “Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days, but in his son’s days I will bring the disaster on his house.”^(D)

³⁰ For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

1 An oracle. The word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.^[a]

1 An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.^(A)

³³ When this people or a prophet or a priest asks you, “What is the burden of the Lord?” you shall say to them, “You are the burden.^[a] I will cast you off, says the Lord.”^{(A) 34} And as for the prophet, priest, or the people who say, “The burden of the Lord,” I will punish them and their households.^{(B) 35} Thus shall you say to one another, among yourselves, “What has the Lord answered?” or “What has the Lord spoken?”^{(C) 36} But “the burden of the Lord” you shall mention no more, for the burden is everyone’s own word, and so you pervert the words of the living God, the Lord of hosts, our God.^{(D) 37} Thus you shall ask the prophet, “What has the Lord answered you?” or “What has the Lord spoken?” ³⁸ But if you say, “the burden of the Lord,” thus says the Lord: Because you have said these words, “the burden of the Lord,” when I sent to you, saying, “You shall not say, ‘the burden of the Lord,’ ”