The Beloved about Her Lover: All night long on my bed I longed for my lover. I longed for him but he never appeared.

Then I will summon as my reliable witnesses Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah.”

Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted! Issue your orders, but they will not be executed! For God is with us!

Look, the Lord’s hand is not too weak to deliver you; his ear is not too deaf to hear you.

The captain of the royal guard took Jeremiah aside and said to him, “The Lord your God threatened this place with this disaster.

There at home they will say, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is just a big noise! He has let the most opportune moment pass by.’

“They have blown the trumpet and everyone is ready, but no one goes to battle, because my anger is against their whole crowd.

This is how you assessed the obscene conduct of your youth, when the Egyptians fondled your nipples and squeezed your young breasts.

I will execute judgments against Moab. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’”

I will execute judgments on Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’”

I will lay waste your cities; and you will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord!

I will turn you into a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

(A city by the name of Hamonah will also be there.) They will cleanse the land.’

Lend your aid and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves to that place.” Bring down, O Lord, your warriors!

Then the Lord took me from tending flocks and gave me this commission, ‘Go! Prophesy to my people Israel!’

“Go immediately to Nineveh, that large capital city, and announce judgment against its people because their wickedness has come to my attention.”

“Go immediately to Nineveh, that large city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.”

When Jonah began to enter the city one day’s walk, he announced, “At the end of forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”

Many nations have now assembled against you. They say, “Jerusalem must be desecrated, so we can gloat over Zion!”

Listen to what the Lord says: “Get up! Defend yourself before the mountains! Present your case before the hills!”