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And God said to Jonas, Art thou very much grieved for the gourd? And he said, I am very much grieved, even to death.

Better is a man in dishonour serving himself, than one honouring himself and wanting bread.

and thou hast multiplied thy whoredom with them, and thou hast increased the number of them that are far from thee, and hast sent ambassadors beyond thy borders, and hast been debased even to hell.

The isles have waited for me, and the ships of Tharsis among the first, to bring thy children from afar, and their silver and their gold with them, and that for the sake of the holy name of the Lord, and because the Holy One of Israel is glorified.

For I will give commandment, and sift the house of Israel among all the Gentiles, as corn is sifted in a sieve, and yet a fragment shall not in any wise fall upon the earth.

The land mourns; Libanus is ashamed: Saron is become marshes; Galilee shall be laid bare, and Chermel.

Behold, I will send many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send many hunters, and they shall hunt them upon every mountain, and upon every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

And I wrote it in a book, and sealed it, and took the testimony of witnesses, and weighed the money in the balance.

In all thy gifts shew a cheerful countenance, and dedicate thy tithes with gladness.

Who knows if God will repent, and turn from his fierce anger, and so we shall not perish?

In the mouth of ungodly men is a snare to citizens: but the understanding of righteous men is prosperous.

And it shall be for joy and praise, and for glory to all the people of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I will do: and they shall fear and be provoked for all the good things and for all the peace which I will bring upon them.

And thy warriors from Thaeman shall be dismayed, to the end that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau.

Then shalt thou cry, and God shall hearken to thee; while thou art yet speaking he will say, Behold, I am here. If thou remove from thee the band, and the stretching forth of the hands, and murmuring speech;

Because I will destroy out of thee the unrighteous and the transgressor, therefore so shall my sword come forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:

My kinsman is like a roe or a young hart on the mountains of Baethel: behold, he is behind our wall, looking through the windows, peeping through the lattices.

Wilt thou be as a man asleep, or as a strong man that cannot save? yet thou art among us, O Lord, and thy name is called upon us; forget us not.

And he said to them, I am a servant of the Lord; and I worship the Lord God of heaven, who made the sea, and the dry land.

Give an opportunity to a wise man, and he will be wiser: instruct a just man, and he will receive more instruction.

They that observe vanities and lies have forsaken their own mercy.

Therefore has judgment departed from them, and righteousness shall not overtake them: while they waited for light, darkness came upon them; while they waited for brightness, they walked in perplexity.

and, behold, he comes riding in a chariot and pair: and he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all her images and her idols have been crushed to the ground.

He that walks simply, walks confidently; but he that perverts his ways shall be known.

O daughter of my people, gird thyself with sackcloth: sprinkle thyself with ashes; make for thyself pitiable lamentation, as the mourning for a beloved son: for misery will come suddenly upon you.

Ye shall hear indeed, but ye shall not understand; and ye shall see indeed, but ye shall not perceive.

And it shall be continually stronger than a rock: be not afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their faces, because it is a provoking house.

Who is he? and we will call him blessed: for wonderful things hath he done among his people.

And the water of Dimon shall be filled with blood: for I will bring Arabians upon Dimon, and I will take away the seed of Moab, and Ariel, and the remnant of Adama.

I have likened thee, my companion, to my horses in the chariots of Pharao.

And because the Preacher was wise above others, so it was that he taught man excellent knowledge, and the ear will trace out the parables.

He shall cast down with his swords thy walls and thy towers.

And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur; and her land shall be as pitch burning night and day;

Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the children of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.

Therefore will I weep as with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sebama; Esebon and Eleale have cast down thy trees; for I will trample on thy harvest and on thy vintages, and all thy plants shall fall.

I will hear what the Lord God will say concerning me: for he shall speak peace to his people, and to his saints, and to those that turn their heart toward him.

But I wrought so that my name should not be at all profaned in the sight of the Gentiles, in the midst of whom they are, among whom I was made known to them in their sight, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart blameless, but not in the sight of thine eyes: yet know that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

For this cause, O shepherds,

In that day thy cities shall be deserted, as the Amorites and the Evaeans deserted theirs, because of the children of Israel; and they shall be desolate.

And I washed thee in water, and washed thy blood from thee, and anointed thee with oil.

He that removes stones shall be troubled thereby; he that cleaves wood shall be endangered thereby.

And there shall be no lion there, neither shall any evil beast go up upon it, nor at all be found there; but the redeemed and gathered on the Lord's behalf, shall walk in it,

I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited any more: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

To whom have we reported evils? and to whom have we reported a message? even to those that are weaned from the milk, who are drawn from the breast.

And see life with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which are given thee under the sun: for that is thy portion in thy life, and in thy labour wherein thou labourest under the sun.

And how can ye then turn to the face of the satraps? They that trust on the Egyptians for horse and rider, are our servants.

And shame shall come upon them that work fine flax, and them that make fine linen.

The elders of the Biblians, and their wise men, who were in thee, these helped thy counsel: and all the ships of the sea and their rowers traded for thee to the utmost west.

So I saw all this, and I applied my heart to every work that has been done under the sun; all the things wherein man has power over man to afflict him.

Therefore mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have any mercy: I have recompensed their ways upon their heads.

And the faces of them four turned not when they went; they went everyone straight forward.

Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel; and I will testify to thee: if thou wilt hearken to me;

And I will take you out from the nations, and will gather you out of all the lands, and will bring you into your own land:

And they shall not take from thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for a foundation: for thou shalt be a desolation for ever, saith the Lord.

And he said to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord; Come from the four winds, and breathe upon these dead men, and let them live.

O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: hearken, O God of Jacob. Pause.

And Tharaca king of the Ethiopians went forth to attack him. And when he heard it, he turned aside, and sent messengers to Ezekias, saying,

Mine is the silver, and mine the gold, saith the Lord Almighty.

And in that day they shall say, behold our God in whom we have trusted, and he shall save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, and we have exulted, and will rejoice in our salvation.

For then will I turn to the peoples a tongue for her generation, that all may call on the name of the Lord, to serve him under one yoke.

For these things have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts: for though many houses should be built, many and fair houses shall be desolate, and there shall be no inhabitants in them.

The end of a matter is better than the beginning thereof: the patient is better than the high-minded.

And they shall not hurt, nor shall they at all be able to destroy any one on my holy mountain: for the whole world is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as much water covers the seas.

We shall bring in our bread with danger of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

The sight of the eyes is better than that which wanders in soul: this is also vanity, and waywardness of spirit.

And they that inhabit the cities of Israel shall come forth, and make a fire with the arms, the shields and the spears, and bows and arrows, and hand-staves, and lances, and they shall keep fire burning with them for seven years:

Thou hast transplanted a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

TETH. The slain with the sword were better than they that were slain with hunger: they have departed, pierced through from want of the fruits of the field.

Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this.

He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver: and who has loved gain, in the abundance thereof? this is also vanity.

And he said to me, Go in, and behold the iniquities which they practise here.

Hear ye, and give ear, and be not proud: for the Lord has spoken.

DALETH. He has built up my ways, he has hedged my paths;

For all our days are gone, and we have passed away in thy wrath: our years have spun out their tale as a spider.

Two are better than one, seeing they have a good reward for their labour.

and the chambers of the gate of the chamber in front were three on one side and three on the other, and there was one measure to the three: there was one measure to the porches on this side and on that.

And I will remove the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and make it a dwelling-place of dragons; and I will utterly waste the cities of Juda, so that they shall not be inhabited.

THE PRAYER OF EZEKIAS KING OF JUDEA, WHEN HE HAD BEEN SICK, AND WAS RECOVERED FROM HIS SICKNESS.

Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodoma, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha; and Damascus shall be left as a heap of the threshing-floor, and desolate for ever: and the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the remnant of my nations shall inherit them.

Wilt thou indeed say, I am God, before them that slay thee? whereas thou art man, and not God.

which our soul longs for: my spirit seeks thee very early in the morning, O God, for thy commandments are a light on the earth: learn righteousness, ye that dwell upon the earth.

For thou, O Lord, art my hope: thou, my soul, hast made the Most High thy refuge.

What advantage has he that works in those things wherein he labours?

TETH. Her gates are sunk into the ground: he has destroyed and broken to pieces her bars, and her king and her prince among the Gentiles: there is no law, nay, her prophets have seen no vision from the Lord.

and the breadth of the wall of each side without was five cubits; and the spaces that were left between the sides of the house,

There are robbers in thee, to shed blood in thee; and in thee they have eaten upon the mountains: they have wrought ungodliness in the midst of thee.

But thou, O Lord, art most high for ever.

Wherefore now their glory has been brought low, and the shame of their countenance has withstood them, and they have proclaimed their sin as Sodom, and made it manifest.

So I became great, and advanced beyond all that were before in Jerusalem: also my wisdom was established to me.

For the princes of my people have not known me, they are foolish and unwise children: they are wise to do evil, but how to do good they have not known.

What is that which has been? the very thing which shall be: and what is that which has been done? the very thing which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

The hands of Zorobabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands shall finish it: and thou shalt know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to thee.

O thou that bringest glad tidings to Zion, go up on the high mountain; lift up thy voice with strength, thou that bringest glad tidings to Jerusalem; lift it up, fear not; say unto the cities of Juda, Behold your God!

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

And there were doors of these chambers for an outlet toward the east, so that one should go through them out of the outer court,

He that planted the ear, does he not hear? or he that formed the eye, does not he perceive?

TETH. Her uncleanness is before her feet; she remembered not her last end; she has lowered her boasting tone, there is none to comfort her. Behold, O Lord, my affliction: for the enemy has magnified himself.

Also in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen horrible things: as they committed adultery, and walked in lies, and strengthened the hands of many, that they should not return each from his evil way: they are all become to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrha.

And now let them put away from me their fornication, and the murders of their princes, and I will dwell in the midst of them forever.

And thy strength is that of a robber: the priests have hid the way, they have murdered the people of Sicima; for they have wrought iniquity in the house of Israel.