God said to Jonah, &#8220;Are you really so very angry<n id="1" /> about the little plant?&#8221; And he said, &#8220;I am as angry<n id="2" /> as I could possibly be!&#8221;<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">So the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> will hand the people of Israel<n id="2" /> over to their enemies<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">until the time when the woman in labor<n id="4" /> gives birth.<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">Then the rest of the king&#8217;s<n id="6" /> countrymen will returnp> <p class="poetry">to be reunited with the people of Israel.<n id="7" />p>

<p class="poetry">He will assume his post<n id="1" /> and shepherd the people<n id="2" /> by the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s strength,p> <p class="poetry">by the sovereign authority of the <sc>Lordsc> his God.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They will live securely,<n id="4" /> for at that time he will be honored<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">even in the distant regions of<n id="6" /> the earth.p>

<p class="poetry">I must endure<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s anger,p> <p class="poetry">for I have sinned against him.p> <p class="poetry">But then<n id="2" /> he will defend my cause,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and accomplish justice on my behalf.p> <p class="poetry">He will lead me out into the light;p> <p class="poetry">I will experience firsthand<n id="4" /> his deliverance.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">He takes his battle position<n id="1" /> and shakes<n id="2" /> the earth;p> <p class="poetry">with a mere look he frightens<n id="3" /> the nations.p> <p class="poetry">The ancient mountains disintegrate;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">the primeval hills are flattened.p> <p class="poetry">He travels on the ancient roads.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">You march out to deliver your people,p> <p class="poetry">to deliver your special servant.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">You strike the leader of the wicked nation,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">laying him open from the lower body to the neck.<n id="3" /> <i>Selahi>.p>

Moreover, the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all says, &#8216;Old men and women will once more live in the plazas of Jerusalem, each one leaning on a cane because of advanced age.

He hung the king of Ai on a tree, leaving him exposed until evening.<n id="1" /> At sunset Joshua ordered that his corpse be taken down from the tree.<n id="2" /> They threw it down at the entrance of the city gate and erected over it a large pile of stones (it remains to this very day).<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now Gideon sent messengers throughout the Ephraimite hill country who announced, &#8220;Go down and head off the Midianites.<n id="1" /> Take control of the fords of the streams<n id="2" /> all the way to Beth Barah and the Jordan River.&#8221;<n id="3" /> When all the Ephraimites had assembled,<n id="4" /> they took control of the fords<n id="5" /> all the way to Beth Barah and the Jordan River.

<p class="bodytext">Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram&#8217;s wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there.

That day the <sc>Lordsc> made a covenant<n id="1" /> with Abram: &#8220;To your descendants I give<n id="2" /> this land, from the river of Egypt<n id="3" /> to the great river, the Euphrates River &#8211;

Isaac began to shake violently<n id="1" /> and asked, &#8220;Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him.<n id="2" /> He will indeed be blessed!&#8221;p>

Stay there<n id="1" /> until your brother&#8217;s anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I&#8217;ll send someone to bring you back from there.<n id="2" /> Why should I lose both of you in one day?&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

I am with you!<n id="1" /> I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you!&#8221;p>

I have<n id="1" /> the power to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night, &#8216;Be careful<n id="2" /> that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.&#8217;<n id="3" />

&#8220;This pile of stones and the pillar are reminders that I will not pass beyond this pile to come to harm you and that you will not pass beyond this pile and this pillar to come to harm me.<n id="1" />

That is why to this day<n id="1" /> the Israelites do not eat the sinew which is attached to the socket of the hip, because he struck<n id="2" /> the socket of Jacob&#8217;s hip near the attached sinew.p>

Let my lord go on ahead of his servant. I will travel more slowly, at the pace of the herds and the children,<n id="1" /> until I come to my lord at Seir.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, &#8220;Live as a widow in your father&#8217;s house until Shelah my son grows up.&#8221; For he thought,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I don&#8217;t want him to die like his brothers.&#8221;<n id="2" /> So Tamar went and lived in her father&#8217;s house.p>

<p class="bodytext">So Joseph made it a statute,<n id="1" /> which is in effect<n id="2" /> to this day throughout the land of Egypt: One-fifth belongs to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh&#8217;s.p>