<p class="poetry">Burn a thank offering of bread made with yeast!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Make a public display of your voluntary offerings!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">For you love to do this, you Israelites.&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> is speaking!p>

<p class="poetry">(But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion;p> <p class="poetry">he can turn the darkness into morningp> <p class="poetry">and daylight<n id="1" /> into night.p> <p class="poetry">He summons the water of the seasp> <p class="poetry">and pours it out on the earth&#8217;s surface.p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> is his name!p>

<p class="bodytext">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> showed me this: I saw<n id="1" /> the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> summoning a shower of fire.<n id="2" /> It consumed the great deep and devoured the fields.p>

<p class="poetry">He builds the upper rooms of his palace<n id="1" /> in heavenp> <p class="poetry">and sets its foundation supports<n id="2" /> on the earth.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">He summons the water of the seap> <p class="poetry">and pours it out on the earth&#8217;s surface.p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> is his name.p>

<p class="poetry">As a result they<n id="1" /> will conquer those left in Edom<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and all the nations subject to my rule.&#8221;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc>, who is about to do this, is speaking!p>

and said,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I<n id="1" /> called out to the <sc>Lordsc> from my distress,p> <p class="poetry">and he answered me;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">from the belly of Sheol<n id="3" /> I cried out for help,p> <p class="poetry">and you heard my prayer.<n id="4" />p>

&#8220;Go immediately<n id="1" /> to Nineveh, that large city,<n id="2" /> and proclaim to<n id="3" /> it the message that I tell you.&#8221;

When Jonah began to enter the city one day&#8217;s walk, he announced, &#8220;At the end of forty days,<n id="1" /> Nineveh will be overthrown!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

Every person and animal must put on sackcloth and must cry earnestly<n id="1" /> to God, and everyone<n id="2" /> must turn from their<n id="3" /> evil way of living<n id="4" /> and from the violence that they do.<n id="5" />

<p class="poetry">Be silent before the Lord <sc>Godsc>,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s day of judgment<n id="2" /> is almost here.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> has prepared a sacrificial meal;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">he has ritually purified<n id="5" /> his guests.p>

<p class="poetry">Know for sure that I will then enablep> <p class="poetry">the nations to give me acceptable praise.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">All of them will invoke the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s name when they pray,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and will worship him in unison.<n id="3" />p>

Turning to me, the messenger then said, &#8220;Cry out that the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all says, &#8216;I am very much moved<n id="1" /> for Jerusalem and for Zion.

In that day,&#8217; says the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all, &#8216;everyone will invite his friend to fellowship under his vine and under his fig tree.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

Should you not have obeyed the words that the <sc>Lordsc> cried out through the former prophets when Jerusalem<n id="1" /> was peacefully inhabited and her surrounding cities, the Negev, and the Shephelah<n id="2" /> were also populated?p>

The Lord says, &#8216;I have returned to Zion and will live within Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> Now Jerusalem will be called &#8220;truthful city,&#8221; &#8220;mountain of the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all,&#8221; &#8220;holy mountain.&#8221;&#8217;

Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners.<n id="1" /> Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation,<n id="2" /> obey<n id="3" /> you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you.<n id="4" />p>

Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners.<n id="1" /> Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation,<n id="2" /> obey<n id="3" /> you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you.<n id="4" />p>

So I, the <sc>Lordsc>, say: &#8220;You have not really obeyed me and granted freedom to your neighbor and fellow countryman.<n id="1" /> Therefore, I will grant you freedom, the freedom<n id="2" /> to die in war, or by starvation or disease. I, the <sc>Lordsc>, affirm it!<n id="3" /> I will make all the kingdoms of the earth horrified at what happens to you.<n id="4" />

&#8220;All the servants of the king and the people of the king&#8217;s provinces know that there is only one law applicable<n id="1" /> to any man or woman who comes uninvited to the king in the inner court &#8211; that person will be put to death, unless the king extends to him the gold scepter, permitting him to be spared.<n id="2" /> Now I have not been invited to come to the king for some thirty days!&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">And Adam had marital relations<n id="1" /> with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth, saying, &#8220;God has given<n id="2" /> me another child<n id="3" /> in place of Abel because Cain killed him.&#8221;