BOOK:Obadiah
1:1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning
Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among
the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.
1:2 Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen:
thou art greatly despised.
1:3 The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou
that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that
saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
1:4 Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though
thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith
the LORD.
1:5 If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how
art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if
the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?
1:6 How are the things of Esau searched out! how are
his hidden things sought up!
1:7 All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee
even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived
thee, and prevailed against thee; that they eat thy bread have laid a wound
under thee: there is none understanding in him.
1:8 Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy
the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?
1:9 And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to
the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.
1:10 For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame
shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
1:11 In the day that thou stoodest on the other side,
in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners
entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as
one of them.
1:12 But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of
thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou
have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction;
neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
1:13 Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of
my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked
on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on
their substance in the day of their calamity;
1:14 Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway,
to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered
up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.
1:15 For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen:
as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return
upon thine own head.
1:16 For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall
all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall
swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.
1:17 But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there
shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
1:18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the
house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall
kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of
the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.
1:19 And they of the south shall possess the mount of
Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the
fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess
Gilead.
1:20 And the captivity of this host of the children of
Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the
captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities
of the south.
1:21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge
the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD's.
BOOK:Jonah
1:1 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son
of Amittai, saying,
1:2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against
it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
1:3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the
presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going
to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go
with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
1:4 But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea,
and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to
be broken.
1:5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man
unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea,
to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship;
and he lay, and was fast asleep.
1:6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him,
What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God
will think upon us, that we perish not.
1:7 And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and
let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us.
So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
1:8 Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for
whose cause this evil is upon us; What is thine occupation? and whence
comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?
1:9 And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear
the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.
1:10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto
him. Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence
of the LORD, because he had told them.
1:11 Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee,
that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.
1:12 And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth
into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my
sake this great tempest is upon you.
1:13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the
land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against
them.
1:14 Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We
beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's
life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as
it pleased thee.
1:15 So they look up Jonah, and cast him forth into the
sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.
1:16 Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered
a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.
1:17 Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow
up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
2:1 Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the
fish's belly,
2:2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto
the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest
my voice.
2:3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst
of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy
waves passed over me.
2:4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will
look again toward thy holy temple.
2:5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul:
the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
2:6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the
earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my
life from corruption, O LORD my God.
2:7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD:
and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
2:8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own
mercy.
2:9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of
thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
2:10 And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited
out Jonah upon the dry land.
3:1 And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second
time, saying,
3:2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach
unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
3:3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according
to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three
days' journey.
3:4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey,
and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
3:5 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.
3:6 For word came 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.
3:7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through
Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man
nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink
water:
3:8 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.
3:9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn
away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
3:10 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 it not.
4:1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very
angry.
4:2 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 before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and
merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the
evil.
4:3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life
from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
4:4 Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?
4:5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east
side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow,
till he might see what would become of the city.
4:6 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 gourd.
4:7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the
next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
4:8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that
God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun 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.
4:9 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.
4:10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd,
for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came
up in a night, and perished in a night:
4:11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city,
wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between
their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?