Jonah's Prayer Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; Yet I will look again Toward thy holy temple. The waters compassed me about, Even to the soul: The depth closed me round about, The weeds were wrapped about my head. I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; They that observe lying vanities pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD. And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. 5 ΤΟ 15 20 * And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying, Arise, go unto Nineveh, that 25 great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. Jonah So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according goes to to the word of the LORD. Nineveh Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey. And Jonah began to enter into s the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came Io unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let 15 neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. 20 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did 25 it not. *But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled Jonah's before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a Anger gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my s life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry? So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat 10 under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city. And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the is gourd. But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun 20 beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live. And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd ? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death. Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither 25 Doom madest it grow; which came up in a night, and against perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, Israel & that great city, wherein are more than sixscore Judah thousand persons that cannot discern between their 5 right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle? Micah HE word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. Hear, all ye people; Hearken, O earth, and all that therein is : For, behold, the LORD cometh forth Out of his place, And will come down, And tread upon the high places of the earth. And the mountains shall be molten under him, And the valleys shall be cleft, As wax before the fire, And as the waters That are poured down a steep place. For the transgression of Jacob is all this, And for the sins of the house of Israel. And what are the high places of Judah ? Are they not Jerusalem ? Therefore I will make Samaria The As an heap of the field, And as plantings of a vineyard: And I will pour down the stones thereof And I will discover the foundations thereof. Shall be beaten to pieces, And all the hires thereof Shall be burned with the fire, And all the idols thereof will I lay desolate : I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, For her wound is incurable; For it is come unto Judah; He is come unto the gate of 10 15 20 my people, 25 Weep ye not at all: In the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust. |