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Jonah 1:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and let your voice come to it; for their evil-doing has come up before me.

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From that land he went out into Assyria, building Nineveh with its wide streets and Calah,

So Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.

But a prophet of the Lord was there, named Oded; and he went out in front of the army which was coming into Samaria and said to them, Truly, because the Lord, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he gave them up into your hands, and you have put them to death in an outburst of wrath stretching up to heaven.

I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face to you, my God: for our sins are increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.

Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.

Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.

And if I say, I will not keep him in mind, I will not say another word in his name; then it is in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am tired of keeping myself in, I am not able to do it.

And you are to give them my words, if they give ear to you or if they do not: for they are uncontrolled.

And they do not say to themselves that I keep in mind all their sin; now their evil acts come round them on every side; they are before my face.

Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and give it the word which I have given you.

So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh as the Lord had said. Now Nineveh was a very great town, three days' journey from end to end.

And am I not to have mercy on Nineveh, that great town, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons without the power of judging between right and left, as well as much cattle?

But I truly am full of the spirit of the Lord, with power of judging and with strength to make clear to Jacob his wrongdoing and to Israel his sin.

The word about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Your pain may not be made better; you are wounded to death: all those hearing the news about you will be waving their hands in joy over you: for who has not undergone the weight of your evil-doing again and again?

And you will come before rulers and kings because of me, for a witness to them and to the Gentiles.

The men of Nineveh will come up in the day of judging and give their decision against this generation: because they were turned from their sins at the preaching of Jonah; and now a greater than Jonah is here.

See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.

For her sins have gone up even to heaven, and God has taken note of her evil-doing.




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