Your misdeeds have stopped these things from coming. Your sins have deprived you of my bounty.’

The leaders will not be able to run away and hide. The shepherds of the flocks will not be able to escape.

I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you.

From you, O Nineveh, one has marched forth who plots evil against the Lord, a wicked military strategist.

They are frightening and terrifying; they decide for themselves what is right.

“As for those who grieve because they cannot attend the festivals – I took them away from you; they became tribute and were a source of shame to you.

From the Israelites’ share Moses took one of every fifty people and animals and gave them to the Levites who were responsible for the care of the Lord’s tabernacle, just as the Lord commanded Moses.

I have not eaten anything when I was in mourning, or removed any of it while ceremonially unclean, or offered any of it to the dead; I have obeyed you and have done everything you have commanded me.

The following Levites prepared to carry out the king’s orders: From the Kohathites: Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah; from the Merarites: Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel; from the Gershonites: Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah;

Then people will come here from the towns in Judah, from the villages surrounding Jerusalem, from the territory of Benjamin, from the western foothills, from the southern hill country, and from the southern part of Judah. They will come bringing offerings to the temple of the Lord: burnt offerings, sacrifices, grain offerings, and incense along with their thank offerings.

Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.

The man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.”

But the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!

The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.

He waited seven more days and then sent out the dove again from the ark.

“Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.

I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.

Then the Lord rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was sent down from the sky by the Lord.

When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved the child under one of the shrubs.

But the Lord’s angel called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am!” he answered.