Hello and welcome
to His words are life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer and today
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we will be reading together
from the Book of Obadiah
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But first let's pray.
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Dear Heavenly
Father, thank you so much
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for this opportunity to
step apart from everything
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that maybe going on in our day
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and to spend
few minutes with you
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listening to Your words.
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Please send Your
Holy Spirit to be with us
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now in a special way as we read.
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We love You so much and
thank You for loving us, amen.
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Reading in the Book of Obadiah
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Chapter 1 and
starting with verse 7
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and this is the
King James Version.
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All the men of thy
confederacy have brought thee
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even to the border, the men
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that were at peace with
thee have deceived thee,
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and prevailed against thee,
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they that eat thy bread
have laid a wound under thee,
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there is none
understanding in him.
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Shall I not in that
day, saith the Lord,
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even destroy the
wise men out of Edom,
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and understanding
out of the mount of Esau?
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And thy mighty men,
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O Teman, shall be dismayed,
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to the end that
everyone of the mount of Esau
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may be cut off by slaughter.
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For thy violence
against thy brother Jacob
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shame shall cover thee,
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and thou shalt
be cut off for ever.
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In the day that thou
stoodest on the other side,
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in the day that the strangers
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carried away captive his forces,
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and foreigners
entered into his gates,
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and cast lots upon Jerusalem,
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even thou wast as one of them.
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But thou shouldest
not have looked on the day
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of thy brother in the day
that he became a stranger,
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neither shouldest
thou have rejoiced
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over the children of Judah
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in the day of their destruction,
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neither shouldest
thou have spoken proudly
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in the day of distress.
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Thou shouldest not have entered
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into the gate of my people
in the day of their calamity,
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yea, thou shouldest not
have looked on their affliction
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in the day of their calamity,
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nor have laid
hands on their substance
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in the day of their calamity,
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neither shouldest thou
have stood in the crossway,
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to cut off those of
his that did escape,
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neither shouldest
thou have delivered up
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those of his that did
remain in the day of distress.
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For the day of the Lord
is near upon all the heathen,
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as thou hast done, it
shall be done unto thee,
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thy reward shall
return upon thine own head.
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For as ye have drunk
upon my holy mountain,
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so shall all the
heathen drink continually,
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yea, they shall drink,
and they shall swallow down,
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and they shall be as
though they had not been.
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But upon mount Zion
shall be deliverance,
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and there shall be holiness,
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and the house of Jacob
shall possess their possessions.
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And the house of
Jacob shall be a fire,
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and the house of Joseph a flame,
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and the house of
Esau for stubble,
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and they shall kindle
in them, and devour them,
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and there shall
not be any remaining
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of the house of Esau,
for the Lord hath spoken it.
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And they of the south
shall possess the mount of Esau,
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and they of the
plain the Philistines,
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and they shall
possess the fields of Ephraim,
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and the fields of Samaria,
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and Benjamin
shall possess Gilead.
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And the captivity of this
host of the children of Israel
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shall possess
that of the Canaanites,
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even unto Zarephath,
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and the captivity of Jerusalem,
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which is in Sepharad,
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shall possess the
cities of the south.
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And saviours shall
come up on mount Zion
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to judge the mount of Esau,
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and the kingdom
shall be the Lord's.
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Continuing now
in the Book of Jonah
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and this is the
King James Version.
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Now the word of the
Lord came unto Jonah
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the son of Amittai, saying,
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Arise, go to
Nineveh, that great city,
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and cry against it,
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for their wickedness
is come up before me.
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But Jonah rose up
to flee unto Tarshish
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from the presence of the
Lord, and went down to Joppa,
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and he found a
ship going to Tarshish,
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so he paid the fare
thereof, and went down into it,
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to go with them unto Tarshish
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from the presence of the Lord.
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But the Lord sent out a
great wind into the sea,
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and there was a
mighty tempest in the sea,
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so that the ship
was like to be broken.
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Then the mariners were afraid,
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and cried every
man unto his god,
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and cast forth the wares
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that were in the
ship into the sea,
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to lighten it of them.
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But Jonah was gone down
into the sides of the ship,
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and he lay, and was fast asleep.
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So the shipmaster came
to him, and said unto him,
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what meanest thou, O sleeper?
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Arise, call upon thy God,
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if so be that God will think
upon us, that we perish not.
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And they said
every one to his fellow,
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come, and let us cast lots,
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that we may know for whose
cause this evil is upon us.
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So they cast lots, and
the lot fell upon Jonah.
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Then said they unto him,
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Tell us, we pray thee,
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for whose cause
this evil is upon us,
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what is thine occupation?
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And whence comest thou?
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What is thy country?
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And of what people art thou?
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And he said unto them,
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I am an Hebrew, and I fear
the Lord, the God of heaven,
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which hath made the
sea and the dry land.
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Then were the men
exceedingly afraid,
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and said unto him,
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why hast thou done this?
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For the men knew that he fled
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from the presence of the Lord,
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because he had told them.
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Then said they unto him,
what shall we do unto thee,
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that the sea
may be calm unto us?
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For the sea
wrought, and was tempestuous.
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And he said unto
them, take me up,
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and cast me forth into the sea,
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so shall the sea
be calm unto you,
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for I know that for my sake
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this great tempest is upon you.
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Nevertheless the men rowed
hard to bring it to the land,
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but they could not,
for the sea wrought,
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and was
tempestuous against them.
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Wherefore they
cried unto the Lord,
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and said, we beseech thee,
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O Lord, we beseech thee,
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let us not perish
for this man's life,
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and lay not upon
us innocent blood,
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for thou, O Lord, hast
done as it pleased thee.
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So they took up Jonah,
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and cast him forth into the sea,
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and the sea
ceased from her raging.
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Then the men feared
the Lord exceedingly,
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and offered a sacrifice
unto the Lord, and made vows.
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Now the Lord had prepared
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a great fish to
swallow up Jonah.
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And Jonah was in
the belly of the fish
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three days and three nights.
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Continuing the story
of Jonah in Chapter 2,
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this is the King James Version.
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Then Jonah prayed
unto the Lord his God
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out of the fish's belly,
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And said, I cried by
reason of mine affliction
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unto the Lord, and he heard me,
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out of the
belly of hell cried I,
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and thou heardest my voice.
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For thou hadst
cast me into the deep,
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in the midst of the seas,
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and the floods
compassed me about,
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all thy billows and
thy waves passed over me.
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Then I said, I am
cast out of thy sight,
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yet I will look again
toward thy holy temple.
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The waters compassed me
about, even to the soul,
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the depth closed me round about,
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the weeds were
wrapped about my head.
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I went down to the
bottoms of the mountains,
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the earth with her
bars was about me for ever,
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yet hast thou brought
up my life from corruption,
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O Lord my God.
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When my soul fainted within me
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I remembered the Lord,
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and my prayer came in unto
thee, into thine holy temple.
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They that observe lying vanities
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forsake their own mercy.
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But I will sacrifice unto thee
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with the voice of thanksgiving,
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I will pay that I have vowed.
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Salvation is of the Lord.
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And the Lord
spake unto the fish,
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and it vomited out
Jonah upon the dry land.
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Continuing in Jonah Chapter 3,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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And the word of the
Lord came unto Jonah
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the second time, saying,
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Arise, go unto
Nineveh, that great city,
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and preach unto it the
preaching that I bid thee.
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So Jonah arose,
and went unto Nineveh,
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according to the
word of the Lord.
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Now Nineveh was an exceeding
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great city of
three days' journey.
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And Jonah began to enter
into the city a day's journey,
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and he cried, and
said, Yet forty days,
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and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
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So the people of
Nineveh believed God,
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and proclaimed a
fast, and put on sackcloth,
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from the greatest of them
even to the least of them.
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For word came unto
the king of Nineveh,
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and he arose from his throne,
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and he laid his robe from him,
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and covered him with
sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
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And he caused
it to be proclaimed
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and published through Nineveh
by the decree of the king
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and his nobles, saying,
Let neither man nor beast,
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herd nor flock, taste any thing,
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let them not
feed, nor drink water,
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But let man and beast
be covered with sackcloth,
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and cry mightily unto God,
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yea, let them turn
every one from his evil way,
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and from the violence
that is in their hands.
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Who can tell if God
will turn and repent,
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and turn away from his fierce
anger, that we perish not?
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And God saw their works,
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that they turned
from their evil way,
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and God repented of the evil,
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that he had said that
he would do unto them,
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and he did it not.
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Continuing in Jonah Chapter 4,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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But it displeased
Jonah exceedingly,
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and he was very angry.
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And he prayed unto the Lord,
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and said, I pray thee, O Lord,
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was not this my saying,
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when I was yet in my country?
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Therefore I fled
before unto Tarshish,
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for I knew that
thou art a gracious God,
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and merciful, slow to
anger, and of great kindness,
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and repentest thee of the evil.
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Therefore now, O Lord, take,
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I beseech thee, my life from me,
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for it is better for
me to die than to live.
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Then said the Lord,
Doest thou well to be angry?
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So Jonah went out of the city,
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and sat on the
east side of the city,
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and there made him a booth,
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and sat under it in the shadow,
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till he might see what
would become of the city.
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And the Lord God
prepared a gourd,
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and made it to
come up over Jonah,
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that it might be a
shadow over his head,
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to deliver him from his grief.
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So Jonah was
exceeding glad of the gourd.
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But God prepared a worm
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when the morning
rose the next day,
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and it smote the
gourd that it withered.
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And it came to pass,
when the sun did arise,
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that God prepared
a vehement east wind,
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and the sun beat
upon the head of Jonah,
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that he fainted, and
wished in himself to die,
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and said, it is better
for me to die than to live.
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And God said to Jonah,
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Doest thou well to
be angry for the gourd?
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And he said, I do well to
be angry, even unto death.
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Then said the Lord,
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Thou hast had pity on the gourd,
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for the which
thou hast not laboured,
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neither madest it grow,
which came up in a night,
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and perished in a night.
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And should not I spare
Nineveh, that great city,
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wherein are more than
sixscore thousand persons
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that cannot discern
between their right hand
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and their left hand,
and also much cattle?
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Continuing in the
Book of Micah Chapter 1,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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The word of the
Lord that came to Micah
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the Morasthite in
the days of Jotham,
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Ahaz, and
Hezekiah, kings of Judah,
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which he saw concerning
Samaria and Jerusalem.
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Hear, all ye
people, hearken, O earth,
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and all that therein is,
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and let the Lord God
be witness against you,
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the Lord from his holy temple.
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For, behold, the Lord
cometh forth out of his place,
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and will come down,
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and tread upon the
high places of the earth.
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And the mountains
shall be molten under him,
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and the valleys shall be
cleft, as wax before the fire,
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and as the waters that
are poured down a steep place.
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For the transgression
of Jacob is all this,
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and for the sins of
the house of Israel.
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What is the
transgression of Jacob?
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Is it not Samaria?
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and what are the
high place of Judah?
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Are they not Jerusalem?
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Therefore I will make
Samaria as an heap of the field,
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and as plantings of a vineyard,
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and I will pour down the stones
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thereof into the valley,
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and I will discover
the foundations thereof.
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Please join me again next time
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to continue reading the
word of God together. Goodbye.
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