Jonah 1:2
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2 “Go at once to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”(A)
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Genesis 10:11
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11 From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah, and
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Zephaniah 2:13-15
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13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north
and destroy Assyria,
and he will make Nineveh a desolation,
a dry waste like the desert.(A)
14 Herds shall lie down in it,
every wild animal of the earth;[a]
the desert owl[b] and the screech owl[c]
shall lodge on its capitals;
the owl[d] shall hoot at the window,
the raven[e] croak on the threshold,
for its cedar work will be laid bare.(B)
15 Is this the exultant city
that lived secure,
that said to itself,
“I am, and there is no one else”?
What a desolation it has become,
a lair for wild animals!
Everyone who passes by it
hisses and shakes the fist.(C)
Nahum 1:1
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1 An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.(A)
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Revelation 18:5
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5 for her sins are heaped high as heaven,
and God has remembered her iniquities.(A)
Jonah 4:11
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11 And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left and also many animals?”(A)
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Jonah 3:2
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2 “Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.”
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Isaiah 58:1
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False and True Worship
58 Shout out; do not hold back!
Lift up your voice like a trumpet!
Announce to my people their rebellion,
to the house of Jacob their sins.(A)
2 Kings 19:36
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36 Then King Sennacherib of Assyria left, went home, and lived at Nineveh.(A)
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Genesis 18:20-21
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20 Then the Lord said, “How great is the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah and how very grave their sin!(A) 21 I must go down and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me, and if not, I will know.”(B)
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Nahum 2:1-3
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The Destruction of the Wicked City
2 A scatterer has come up against you.
Guard the ramparts;
watch the road;
gird your loins;
collect all your strength.(A)
2 (For the Lord is restoring the majesty of Jacob,
as well as the majesty of Israel,
though ravagers have ravaged them
and ruined their branches.)(B)
3 The shields of his warriors are red;
his soldiers are clothed in crimson.
The metal on the chariots flashes
on the day when he musters them;
the chargers[a] prance.(C)
Footnotes
- 2.3 Cn Compare Gk Syr: Heb cypresses
Micah 3:8
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8 But as for me, I am filled with power,
with the spirit of the Lord,
and with justice and might,
to declare to Jacob his transgression
and to Israel his sin.(A)
Ezekiel 3:5-9
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5 For you are not sent to a people of obscure speech and difficult language but to the house of Israel, 6 not to many peoples of obscure speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.(A) 7 But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me, because all the house of Israel have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart.(B) 8 See, I have made your face hard against their faces and your forehead hard against their foreheads. 9 Like the hardest stone, harder than flint, I have made your forehead; do not fear them or be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.”(C)
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Ezekiel 2:7
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7 You shall speak my words to them, whether they hear or refuse to hear, for they are a rebellious house.(A)
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Jeremiah 1:7-10
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7 But the Lord said to me,
“Do not say, ‘I am only a boy,’
for you shall go to all to whom I send you,
and you shall speak whatever I command you.
8 Do not be afraid of them,
for I am with you to deliver you,
says the Lord.”(A)
9 Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me,
“Now I have put my words in your mouth.(B)
10 See, today I appoint you over nations and over kingdoms,
to pluck up and to pull down,
to destroy and to overthrow,
to build and to plant.”(C)
Ezra 9:6
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6 and said,
“O my God, I am too ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.(A)
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James 5:4
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4 Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.(A)
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Matthew 10:18
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18 and you will be dragged before governors and kings because of me, as a testimony to them and the gentiles.(A)
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