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1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the LORD God against Edom: (We have heard a rumor from the LORD. And an ambassador has been sent among the heathen. Arise and let us rise up against her to battle!)
2 “Behold, I have made you small among the heathen. You are utterly despised.
3 “The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwells in the clefts of the rocks, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who shall bring me down to the ground?’
4 “Though you exalt yourself as the eagle, and make your nest among the stars, there will I bring you down,” says the LORD.
5 “Did thieves or robbers come to you at night? How were you brought to silence? Would they not have stolen until they had enough? If the grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some grapes?
6 “How the things of Esau will be sought, and his treasures searched!
7 “All the men of your confederacy have driven you to the borders. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you and prevailed against you. Those who eat your bread have laid a trap for you. There is no understanding in him.
8 “Shall I not, on that day,” says the LORD, “destroy the wise men from Edom, and understanding from the Mount of Esau?
9 “And your strong men, O Teman, shall be afraid. Because everyone of the Mount of Esau shall be cut off by slaughter.
10 “Because of your cruelty against your brother, Jacob, shame shall cover you. And you shall be cut off forever.
11 “When you stood on the other side, in the time when the strangers carried away his wealth, and strangers entered into his gates and cast lots upon Jerusalem, you were as one of them.
12 “But you should not have stared in the time of your brother, in the time that he was made a stranger. Nor should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the time of their destruction. You should not have spoken proudly in the time of affliction.
13 “You should not have entered into the gate of My people in the time of their destruction. Nor should you have once looked on their affliction in the time of their destruction, nor have laid hands on their wealth in the time of their destruction.
14 “Nor should you have stood in the crossways to cut off those who would escape. Nor should you have shut up their remnant in the time of affliction.
15 “For the Day of the LORD upon all the heathen is near. As you have done, it shall be done to you. Your reward shall return upon your head.
16 “For as you have drunk upon My Holy Mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually. Indeed, they shall drink and swallow up. And they shall be as though they had not been.
17 “But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance. And it shall be holy. And the House of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
18 And the House of Jacob shall be a fire, and the House of Joseph a flame, and the House of Esau as stubble. And they shall kindle them and devour them. And there shall be no remnant of the House of Esau,” for the LORD has spoken it.
19 And they shall possess the southern side of the Mount of Esau and the plain of the Philistines. And they shall possess the fields of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria. And Benjamin shall have Gilead.
20 And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel who were among the Canaanites shall possess to Zarephath. And the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the South.
21 And those who shall save shall come up to Mount Zion to judge the Mount of Esau. And the kingdom shall be the LORD’s.
1 The Word of the LORD also came to Jonah, the son of Amittai, saying,
2 “Arise! Go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it. For their wickedness has come up before Me.”
3 But Jonah rose up to flee into Tarshish—from the presence of the LORD—and went down to Japho. And he found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid its fare and went down into it, so that he might go with them to Tarshish, from the presence of the LORD.
4 But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea; and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was about to be broken.
5 Then the mariners were afraid; and every man cried to his god and cast the wares that were in the ship, into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah had gone down into the sides of the ship. And he lay down and was fast asleep.
6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, O sleeper? Arise! Call upon your God! Perhaps God will think upon us, so that we do not perish!”
7 And they said to one another, “Come, and let us cast lots, so that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So, they cast lots. And the lot fell upon Jonah.
8 Then they said to him, “Tell us for whose cause this evil is upon us? What is your occupation? And from where do you come? Which is your country? And of what people are you?”
9 And he answered them, “I am a Hebrew. And I fear the LORD God of Heaven, Who has made the sea and the dry land.”
10 Then the men were very afraid, and said to him, “Why have you done this? (for the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them)
11 Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you, so that the sea may be calm to us!? (for the sea continued to be tempestuous)
12 And he said to them, “Take me; and cast me into the sea! So shall the sea be calm to you! For I know it is for my sake that this great tempest is upon you!”
13 Nevertheless, the men rowed to bring it to the land. But they could not. For the tempest in the sea continued.
14 Therefore, they cried to the LORD, and said, “We beg You, O LORD! We beg You! Let us not perish for this man’s life! And do not lay innocent blood upon us! For You, O LORD, have done as it pleased You!”
15 So, they took up Jonah, and cast him into the sea. And the sea ceased from her raging.
16 Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice to the LORD, and made vows.
17 Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights.
2 Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly,
2 and said, “I cried to the LORD in my affliction and He heard me. Out of the belly of hell I cried. You heard my voice.
3 “For You had cast me into the bottom, in the midst of the sea. And the floods surrounded me. All Your surges and all Your waves passed over me.
4 “Then I said, “I am cast away, out of Your sight. Yet, I will look once again toward Your Holy Temple.
5 “The waters surrounded me, to the soul. The depth closed me all around; and the weeds were wrapped around my head.
6 “I went down to the bottom of the mountains. The Earth, with her bars, was around me forever. Still, You have brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.
7 “When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer came to You into Your Holy Temple.
8 “Those who observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
9 “But I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving; and will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is from the LORD.”
10 And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it cast out Jonah upon the dry land.
3 And the Word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,
2 “Arise. Go to Nineveh, that great city; and preach to it the preaching which I command you.”
3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the Word of the LORD. Now, Nineveh was a large city of three days’ journey.
4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6 For Word came to the king of Nineveh. And he rose from his throne. And he laid his robe aside and covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes.
7 And he proclaimed and said through Nineveh, (by the counsel of the king and his nobles) saying, “Let neither man nor beast, bullock nor sheep, taste anything nor feed nor drink water.
8 “But let man and beast put on sackcloth and cry mightily to God. Indeed, let every man turn from his evil way, and from the wickedness that is in their hands.
9 “Who can tell if God will turn and have compassion and turn away from His fierce wrath, so that we do not perish?”
10 And God saw their works — that they turned from their evil ways — and God turned from of the evil that He had said that He would do to them; and He did it not.
4 Therefore it displeased Jonah exceedingly; and he was angry.
2 And he prayed to the LORD, and said, “Ah now, O LORD, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore, I fled to Tarshish before. For I knew that You are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness. And You turn from evil.
3 “Therefore, O LORD, I beg You, take my life from me now. For it is better for me to die than to live.”
4 “Then the LORD said, “Do you do well to be angry?
5 So Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city. And he made a booth there and sat under it, in the shadow, until he might see what would be done in the city.
6 And the LORD God prepared a plant, and made it to come up over Jonah, so that it might be a shade over his head and deliver him from his grief. So, Jonah was exceedingly glad for the plant.
7 But when the morning rose the next day, God prepared a worm. And it struck the plant, so that it withered.
8 And when the Sun arose, God also prepared a fervent east wind. And the Sun beat upon the head of Jonah, so that he fainted and wished in his heart to die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
9 And God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “I do well to be angry unto death!”
10 Then the LORD said, “You have had pity on a plant which you have neither tended nor made grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night.
11 And should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are 120,000 people, and many cattle, who cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand?
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