Then the Lord commanded the fish and it disgorged Jonah on dry land.

I will uproot your images of Asherah from your midst, and destroy your idols.

The city’s rich men think nothing of resorting to violence; her inhabitants lie, their tongues speak deceptive words.

And now, I will break Assyria’s yoke bar from your neck; I will tear apart the shackles that are on you.”

Your schemes will bring shame to your house. Because you destroyed many nations, you will self-destruct.

The seacoast will be used as pasture lands by the shepherds and as pens for their flocks.

The Lord then addressed good, comforting words to the angelic messenger who was speaking to me.

He replied, “Don’t you know what these are?” And I said, “No, sir.”

I asked the messenger who was speaking to me, “Where are they taking the basket?”

as are those of Hamath also, which adjoins Damascus, and Tyre and Sidon, though they consider themselves to be very wise.

Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets!

Thus I will strengthen them by my power, and they will walk about in my name,” says the Lord.

Then I took my staff “Pleasantness” and cut it in two to annul my covenant that I had made with all the people.

Then I cut the second staff “Binders” in two in order to annul the covenant of brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

“You have criticized me sharply,” says the Lord, “but you ask, ‘How have we criticized you?’

Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.

But John tried to prevent him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and yet you come to me?”

“Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the way by the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles –

may your kingdom come, may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Why do you worry about clothing? Think about how the flowers of the field grow; they do not work or spin.