Then one who appeared to be a human being was touching my lips. I opened my mouth and started to speak, saying to the one who was standing before me, “Sir, due to the vision, anxiety has gripped me and I have no strength.

So I will set Teman on fire; fire will consume Bozrah’s fortresses.”

The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw a basket of summer fruit.

Even if they were to hide on the top of Mount Carmel, I would hunt them down and take them from there. Even if they tried to hide from me at the bottom of the sea, from there I would command the Sea Serpent to bite them.

The oracle against Nineveh; the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:

The sluice gates are opened; the royal palace is deluged and dissolves.

Will he then continue to fill and empty his throw net? Will he always destroy nations and spare none?

Therefore you must wait patiently for me,” says the Lord, “for the day when I attack and take plunder. I have decided to gather nations together and assemble kingdoms, so I can pour out my fury on them – all my raging anger. For the whole earth will be consumed by my fiery anger.

On that day,’ says the Lord who rules over all, ‘I will take you, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, my servant,’ says the Lord, ‘and I will make you like a signet ring, for I have chosen you,’ says the Lord who rules over all.”

“The Lord who rules over all says, ‘The fast of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months will become joyful and happy, pleasant feasts for the house of Judah, so love truth and peace.’

“I will pour out on the kingship of David and the population of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication so that they will look to me, the one they have pierced. They will lament for him as one laments for an only son, and there will be a bitter cry for him like the bitter cry for a firstborn.

And also on that day,” says the Lord who rules over all, “I will remove the names of the idols from the land and they will never again be remembered. Moreover, I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.

After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.

“Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

“Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

and forgive us our debts, as we ourselves have forgiven our debtors.

When he entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him asking for help:

A large herd of pigs was feeding some distance from them.

and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.

For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John appeared.