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Jonah 1:2

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“Leave at once for the important city, Nineveh. Announce to the people that I can no longer overlook the wicked things they have done.”

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He went from that land to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

Then King Sennacherib of Assyria left. He went home to Nineveh and stayed there.

A prophet of the Lord named Oded was there. He went to meet the army coming home to Samaria. He said to them, “The Lord God of your ancestors handed Judah over to you in his anger. You killed them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.

and said, “I am ashamed, my God. I am embarrassed to look at you. Our sins have piled up over our heads, and our guilt is so overwhelming that it reaches heaven.

Then King Sennacherib of Assyria left. He went home to Nineveh and stayed there.

Cry aloud! Don’t hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Tell my people about their rebellion and the descendants of Jacob about their sins.

I think to myself, “I can forget the Lord and no longer speak his name.” But ⌞his word⌟ is inside me like a burning fire shut up in my bones. I wear myself out holding it in, but I can’t do it any longer.

Speak my words to them whether they listen or not, because they are rebellious.

They don’t realize that I remember all the evil things they’ve done. Now their sins surround them. Their sins are in my presence.

“Leave at once for the important city, Nineveh. Announce to the people the message I have given you.”

Jonah immediately went to Nineveh as the Lord told him. Nineveh was a very large city. It took three days to walk through  it.

Shouldn’t I feel sorry for this important city, Nineveh? It has more than 120,000 people in it as well as many animals. These people couldn’t tell their right hand from their left.”

But I am filled with the power of the Lord’s Spirit, with justice, and with strength. So I will tell ⌞the descendants of⌟ Jacob about their crimes and ⌞the nation of⌟ Israel about its sins.

This is a revelation from the Lord about Nineveh. This book contains the vision of Nahum from Elkosh.

There is no relief for your collapse. Your wound is fatal. All who hear the news about you will clap their hands. Who hasn’t suffered from your endless evil?

Because of me you will even be brought in front of governors and kings to testify to them and to everyone in the world.

The men of Nineveh will stand up with you at the time of judgment and will condemn you, because they turned to God and changed the way they thought and acted when Jonah spoke his message. But look, someone greater than Jonah is here!

The wages you refused to pay the people who harvested your fields shout ⌞to God⌟ against you. The Lord of Armies has heard the cries of those who gather the crops.

Her sins are piled as high as heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.




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