Bible in 90 Days Plan

¹Blow the horn in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the residents of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming; in fact, it is near —

²a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and total darkness, like the dawn spreading over the mountains; a great and strong people appears, such as never existed in ages past and never will again in all the generations to come.

³A fire devours in front of them, and behind them a flame blazes. The land in front of them is like the garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland; there is no escape from them.

⁴Their appearance is like that of horses, and they gallop like war horses.

⁵They bound on the tops of the mountains. Their sound is like the sound of chariots, like the sound of fiery flames consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for war.

⁶Nations writhe in horror before them; all faces turn pale.

⁷They attack as warriors attack; they scale walls as men of war do. Each goes on his own path, and they do not change their course.

⁸They do not push each other; each proceeds on his own path. They dodge the arrows, never stopping.

⁹They storm the city; they run on the wall; they climb into the houses; they enter through the windows like thieves.

¹⁰The earth quakes before them; the sky shakes. The sun and moon grow dark, and the stars cease their shining.

¹¹The LORD makes his voice heard in the presence of his army. His camp is very large; those who carry out his command are powerful. Indeed, the day of the LORD is terrible and dreadful  — who can endure it?

¹²Even now — this is the LORD’s declaration — turn to me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.

¹³Tear your hearts, not just your clothes, and return to the LORD your God. For he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and he relents from sending disaster.

¹⁴Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind him, so you can offer grain and wine to the LORD your God.

¹⁵Blow the horn in Zion! Announce a sacred fast; proclaim an assembly.

¹⁶Gather the people; sanctify the congregation; assemble the aged; gather the infants, even babies nursing at the breast. Let the groom leave his bedroom, and the bride her honeymoon chamber.

¹⁷Let the priests, the LORD’s ministers, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say: “Have pity on your people, LORD, and do not make your inheritance a disgrace, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”

¹⁸Then the LORD became jealous for his land and spared his people.

¹⁹The LORD answered his people: Look, I am about to send you grain, new wine, and fresh oil. You will be satiated with them, and I will no longer make you a disgrace among the nations.

²⁰I will drive the northerner far from you and banish him to a dry and desolate land, his front ranks into the Dead Sea, and his rear guard into the Mediterranean Sea. His stench will rise; yes, his rotten smell will rise, for he has done astonishing things.

²¹Don’t be afraid, land; rejoice and be glad, for the LORD has done astonishing things.

²²Don’t be afraid, wild animals, for the wilderness pastures have turned green, the trees bear their fruit, and the fig tree and grapevine yield their riches.

²³Children of Zion, rejoice and be glad in the LORD your God, because he gives you the autumn rain for your vindication. He sends showers for you, both autumn and spring rain as before.

²⁴The threshing floors will be full of grain, and the vats will overflow with new wine and fresh oil.

²⁵I will repay you for the years that the swarming locust ate, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust — my great army that I sent against you.

²⁶You will have plenty to eat and be satisfied. You will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. My people will never again be put to shame.

²⁷You will know that I am present in Israel and that I am the LORD your God, and there is no other. My people will never again be put to shame.

²⁸After this I will pour out my Spirit on all humanity; then your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your old men will have dreams, and your young men will see visions.

²⁹I will even pour out my Spirit on the male and female slaves in those days.

³⁰I will display wonders in the heavens and on the earth: blood, fire, and columns of smoke.

³¹The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes.

³²Then everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved, for there will be an escape for those on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, as the LORD promised, among the survivors the LORD calls.

¹Yes, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

²I will gather all the nations and take them to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. I will enter into judgment with them there because of my people, my inheritance Israel. The nations have scattered the Israelites in foreign countries and divided up my land.

³They cast lots for my people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.

⁴And also: Tyre, Sidon, and all the territories of Philistia  — what are you to me? Are you paying me back or trying to get even with me? I will quickly bring retribution on your heads.

⁵For you took my silver and gold and carried my finest treasures to your temples.

⁶You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks to remove them far from their own territory.

⁷Look, I am about to rouse them up from the place where you sold them; I will bring retribution on your heads.

⁸I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a distant nation, for the LORD has spoken.

⁹Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for holy war; rouse the warriors; let all the men of war advance and attack!

¹⁰Beat your plows into swords and your pruning knives into spears. Let even the weakling say, “I am a warrior.”

¹¹Come quickly, all you surrounding nations; gather yourselves. Bring down your warriors there, LORD.

¹²Let the nations be roused and come to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit down to judge all the surrounding nations.

¹³Swing the sickle because the harvest is ripe. Come and trample the grapes because the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because the wickedness of the nations is extreme.

¹⁴Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

¹⁵The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will cease their shining.

¹⁶The LORD will roar from Zion and make his voice heard from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will shake. But the LORD will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the Israelites.

¹⁷Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, and foreigners will never overrun it again.

¹⁸In that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will flow with water, and a spring will issue from the LORD’s house, watering the Valley of Acacias.

¹⁹Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah in whose land they shed innocent blood.

²⁰But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

²¹I will pardon their bloodguilt, which I have not pardoned, for the LORD dwells in Zion.

¹The words of Amos, who was one of the sheep breeders from Tekoa  — what he saw regarding Israel in the days of King Uzziah of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

²He said: The LORD roars from Zion and makes his voice heard from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the summit of Carmel withers.

³The LORD says: I will not relent from punishing Damascus for three crimes, even four, because they threshed Gilead with iron sledges.

⁴Therefore, I will send fire against Hazael’s palace, and it will consume Ben-hadad’s citadels.

⁵I will break down the gates of Damascus. I will cut off the ruler from the Valley of Aven, and the one who wields the scepter from Beth-eden. The people of Aram will be exiled to Kir. The LORD has spoken.

⁶The LORD says: I will not relent from punishing Gaza for three crimes, even four, because they exiled a whole community, handing them over to Edom.

⁷Therefore, I will send fire against the walls of Gaza, and it will consume its citadels.

⁸I will cut off the ruler from Ashdod, and the one who wields the scepter from Ashkelon. I will also turn my hand against Ekron, and the remainder of the Philistines will perish. The Lord GOD has spoken.

⁹The LORD says: I will not relent from punishing Tyre for three crimes, even four, because they handed over a whole community of exiles to Edom and broke a treaty of brotherhood.

¹⁰Therefore, I will send fire against the walls of Tyre, and it will consume its citadels.

¹¹The LORD says: I will not relent from punishing Edom for three crimes, even four, because he pursued his brother with the sword. He stifled his compassion, his anger tore at him continually, and he harbored his rage incessantly.

¹²Therefore, I will send fire against Teman, and it will consume the citadels of Bozrah.

¹³The LORD says: I will not relent from punishing the Ammonites for three crimes, even four, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.

¹⁴Therefore, I will set fire to the walls of Rabbah, and it will consume its citadels. There will be shouting on the day of battle and a violent wind on the day of the storm.

¹⁵Their king and his princes will go into exile together. The LORD has spoken.

¹The LORD says: I will not relent from punishing Moab for three crimes, even four, because he burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime.

²Therefore, I will send fire against Moab, and it will consume the citadels of Kerioth. Moab will die with a tumult, with shouting and the sound of the ram’s horn.

³I will cut off the judge from the land and kill all its officials with him. The LORD has spoken.

⁴The LORD says: I will not relent from punishing Judah for three crimes, even four, because they have rejected the instruction of the LORD and have not kept his statutes. The lies that their ancestors followed have led them astray.

⁵Therefore, I will send fire against Judah, and it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem.

⁶The LORD says: I will not relent from punishing Israel for three crimes, even four, because they sell a righteous person for silver and a needy person for a pair of sandals.

⁷They trample the heads of the poor on the dust of the ground and obstruct the path of the needy. A man and his father have sexual relations with the same girl, profaning my holy name.

⁸They stretch out beside every altar on garments taken as collateral, and in the house of their God they drink wine obtained through fines.

⁹Yet I destroyed the Amorite as Israel advanced; his height was like the cedars, and he was as sturdy as the oaks; I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.

¹⁰And I brought you from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness in order to possess the land of the Amorite.

¹¹I raised up some of your sons as prophets and some of your young men as Nazirites. Is this not the case, Israelites? This is the LORD’s declaration.

¹²But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets, “Do not prophesy.”

¹³Look, I am about to crush you in your place as a wagon crushes when full of grain.

¹⁴Escape will fail the swift, the strong one will not maintain his strength, and the warrior will not save his life.

¹⁵The archer will not stand his ground, the one who is swift of foot will not save himself, and the one riding a horse will not save his life.

¹⁶Even the most courageous of the warriors will flee naked on that day  — this is the LORD’s declaration.

¹Listen to this message that the LORD has spoken against you, Israelites, against the entire clan that I brought from the land of Egypt:

²I have known only you out of all the clans of the earth; therefore, I will punish you for all your iniquities.

³Can two walk together without agreeing to meet?

⁴Does a lion roar in the forest when it has no prey? Does a young lion growl from its lair unless it has captured something?

⁵Does a bird land in a trap on the ground if there is no bait for it? Does a trap spring from the ground when it has caught nothing?

⁶If a ram’s horn is blown in a city, aren’t people afraid? If a disaster occurs in a city, hasn’t the LORD done it?

⁷Indeed, the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing his counsel to his servants the prophets.

⁸A lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken; who will not prophesy?

⁹Proclaim on the citadels in Ashdod and on the citadels in the land of Egypt: Assemble on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great turmoil in the city and the acts of oppression within it.

¹⁰The people are incapable of doing right  — this is the LORD’s declaration — those who store up violence and destruction in their citadels.

¹¹Therefore, the Lord GOD says: An enemy will surround the land; he will destroy your strongholds and plunder your citadels.

¹²The LORD says: As the shepherd snatches two legs or a piece of an ear from the lion’s mouth, so the Israelites who live in Samaria will be rescued with only the corner of a bed or the cushion of a couch.

¹³Listen and testify against the house of Jacob — this is the declaration of the Lord GOD, the God of Armies.

¹⁴I will punish the altars of Bethel on the day I punish Israel for its crimes; the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.

¹⁵I will demolish the winter house and the summer house; the houses inlaid with ivory will be destroyed, and the great houses will come to an end. This is the LORD’s declaration.

¹Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who are on the hill of Samaria, women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to their husbands, “Bring us something to drink.”

²The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness: Look, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, every last one of you with fishhooks.

³You will go through breaches in the wall, each woman straight ahead, and you will be driven along toward Harmon. This is the LORD’s declaration.

⁴Come to Bethel and rebel; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tenths every three days.

⁵Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings, for that is what you Israelites love to do! This is the LORD’s declaration.

⁶I gave you absolutely nothing to eat in all your cities, a shortage of food in all your communities, yet you did not return to me. This is the LORD’s declaration.

⁷I also withheld the rain from you while there were still three months until harvest. I sent rain on one city but no rain on another. One field received rain while a field with no rain withered.

⁸Two or three cities staggered to another city to drink water but were not satisfied, yet you did not return to me. This is the LORD’s declaration.

⁹I struck you with blight and mildew; the locust devoured your many gardens and vineyards, your fig trees and olive trees, yet you did not return to me. This is the LORD’s declaration.

¹⁰I sent plagues like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I caused the stench of your camp to fill your nostrils, yet you did not return to me. This is the LORD’s declaration.

¹¹I overthrew some of you as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick snatched from a fire, yet you did not return to me  — This is the LORD’s declaration.

¹²Therefore, Israel, that is what I will do to you, and since I will do that to you, Israel, prepare to meet your God!

¹³He is here: the one who forms the mountains, creates the wind, and reveals his thoughts to man, the one who makes the dawn out of darkness and strides on the heights of the earth. The LORD, the God of Armies, is his name.

¹Listen to this message that I am singing for you, a lament, house of Israel:

²She has fallen; Virgin Israel will never rise again. She lies abandoned on her land with no one to raise her up.

³For the Lord GOD says: The city that marches out a thousand strong will have only a hundred left, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have only ten left in the house of Israel.

⁴For the LORD says to the house of Israel: Seek me and live!

⁵Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal or journey to Beer-sheba, for Gilgal will certainly go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.

⁶Seek the LORD and live, or he will spread like fire throughout the house of Joseph; it will consume everything with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

⁷Those who turn justice into wormwood also throw righteousness to the ground.

⁸The one who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the water of the sea and pours it out over the surface of the earth  — the LORD is his name.

⁹He brings destruction on the strong, and it falls on the fortress.

¹⁰They hate the one who convicts the guilty at the city gate, and they despise the one who speaks with integrity.

¹¹Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from him, you will never live in the houses of cut stone you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

¹²For I know your crimes are many and your sins innumerable. They oppress the righteous, take a bribe, and deprive the poor of justice at the city gates.

¹³Therefore, those who have insight will keep silent at such a time, for the days are evil.

¹⁴Pursue good and not evil so that you may live, and the LORD, the God of Armies, will be with you as you have claimed.

¹⁵Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the city gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

¹⁶Therefore the LORD, the God of Armies, the Lord, says: There will be wailing in all the public squares; they will cry out in anguish in all the streets. The farmer will be called on to mourn, and professional mourners to wail.

¹⁷There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass among you. The LORD has spoken.

¹⁸Woe to you who long for the day of the LORD! What will the day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.

¹⁹It will be like a man who flees from a lion only to have a bear confront him. He goes home and rests his hand against the wall only to have a snake bite him.

²⁰Won’t the day of the LORD be darkness rather than light, even gloom without any brightness in it?

²¹I hate, I despise, your feasts! I can’t stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.

²²Even if you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; I will have no regard for your fellowship offerings of fattened cattle.

²³Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

²⁴But let justice flow like water, and righteousness, like an unfailing stream.

²⁵“House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to me during the forty years in the wilderness?

²⁶But you have taken up Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, images you have made for yourselves.

²⁷So I will send you into exile beyond Damascus.” The LORD, the God of Armies, is his name. He has spoken.

¹Woe to those who are at ease in Zion and to those who feel secure on the hill of Samaria — the notable people in this first of the nations, those the house of Israel comes to.

²Cross over to Calneh and see; go from there to great Hamath; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?

³You dismiss any thought of the evil day and bring in a reign of violence.

⁴They lie on beds inlaid with ivory, sprawled out on their couches, and dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.

⁵They improvise songs to the sound of the harp and invent their own musical instruments like David.

⁶They drink wine by the bowlful and anoint themselves with the finest oils but do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.

⁷Therefore, they will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and the feasting of those who sprawl out will come to an end.

⁸The Lord GOD has sworn by himself  — this is the declaration of the LORD, the God of Armies: I loathe Jacob’s pride and hate his citadels, so I will hand over the city and everything in it.

⁹And if there are ten men left in one house, they will die.

¹⁰A close relative and burner will remove his corpse from the house. He will call to someone in the inner recesses of the house, “Any more with you?” That person will reply, “None.” Then he will say, “Silence, because the LORD’s name must not be invoked.”

¹¹For the LORD commands: The large house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.

¹²Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does anyone plow there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood  —

¹³you who rejoice over Lo-debar and say, “Didn’t we capture Karnaim for ourselves by our own strength?”

¹⁴But look, I am raising up a nation against you, house of Israel  — this is the declaration of the Lord, the GOD of Armies — and they will oppress you from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.

¹The Lord GOD showed me this: He was forming a swarm of locusts at the time the spring crop first began to sprout — after the cutting of the king’s hay.

²When the locusts finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?”

³The LORD relented concerning this. “It will not happen,” he said.

⁴The Lord GOD showed me this: The Lord GOD was calling for a judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.

⁵Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?”

⁶The LORD relented concerning this. “This will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.

⁷He showed me this: The Lord was standing there by a vertical wall with a plumb line in his hand.

⁸The LORD asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” I replied, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will no longer spare them:

⁹Isaac’s high places will be deserted, and Israel’s sanctuaries will be in ruins; I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with a sword.”

¹⁰Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to King Jeroboam of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you right here in the house of Israel. The land cannot endure all his words,

¹¹for Amos has said this: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will certainly go into exile from its homeland.’”

¹²Then Amaziah said to Amos, “Go away, you seer! Flee to the land of Judah. Earn your living and give your prophecies there,

¹³but don’t ever prophesy at Bethel again, for it is the king’s sanctuary and a royal temple.”

¹⁴So Amos answered Amaziah, “I was not a prophet or the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman, and I took care of sycamore figs.

¹⁵But the LORD took me from following the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’”

¹⁶Now hear the word of the LORD. You say: Do not prophesy against Israel; do not preach against the house of Isaac.

¹⁷Therefore, this is what the LORD says: Your wife will be a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will fall by the sword, and your land will be divided up with a measuring line. You yourself will die on pagan soil, and Israel will certainly go into exile from its homeland.

¹The Lord GOD showed me this: a basket of summer fruit.

²He asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” I replied, “A basket of summer fruit.” The LORD said to me, “The end has come for my people Israel; I will no longer spare them.

³In that day the temple songs will become wailing”  — this is the Lord GOD’s declaration. “Many dead bodies, thrown everywhere! Silence!”

⁴Hear this, you who trample on the needy and do away with the poor of the land,

⁵asking, “When will the New Moon be over so we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, so we may market wheat? We can reduce the measure while increasing the price and cheat with dishonest scales.

⁶We can buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and even sell the chaff!”

⁷The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: I will never forget all their deeds.

⁸Because of this, won’t the land quake and all who dwell in it mourn? All of it will rise like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.

⁹And in that day — this is the declaration of the Lord GOD  — I will make the sun go down at noon; I will darken the land in the daytime.

¹⁰I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make that grief like mourning for an only son and its outcome like a bitter day.

¹¹Look, the days are coming — this is the declaration of the Lord GOD  — when I will send a famine through the land: not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.

¹²People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.

¹³In that day the beautiful young women, the young men also, will faint from thirst.

¹⁴Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, “As your god lives, Dan,” or, “As the way of Beer-sheba lives”  — they will fall, never to rise again.

¹I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said: Strike the capitals of the pillars so that the thresholds shake; knock them down on the heads of all the people. Then I will kill the rest of them with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.

²If they dig down to Sheol, from there my hand will take them; if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.

³If they hide on the top of Carmel, from there I will track them down and seize them; if they conceal themselves from my sight on the sea floor, from there I will command the sea serpent to bite them.

⁴And if they are driven by their enemies into captivity, from there I will command the sword to kill them. I will keep my eye on them for harm and not for good.

⁵The Lord, the GOD of Armies — he touches the earth; it melts, and all who dwell in it mourn; all of it rises like the Nile and subsides like the Nile of Egypt.

⁶He builds his upper chambers in the heavens and lays the foundation of his vault on the earth. He summons the water of the sea and pours it out over the surface of the earth. The LORD is his name.

⁷Israelites, are you not like the Cushites to me? This is the LORD’s declaration. Didn’t I bring Israel from the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Arameans from Kir?

⁸Look, the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will obliterate it from the face of the earth. However, I will not totally destroy the house of Jacob  — this is the LORD’s declaration —

⁹for I am about to give the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations, as one shakes a sieve, but not a pebble will fall to the ground.

¹⁰All the sinners among my people who say: “Disaster will never overtake or confront us,” will die by the sword.

¹¹In that day I will restore the fallen shelter of David: I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,

¹²so that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear my name — this is the declaration of the LORD; he will do this.

¹³Look, the days are coming — this is the LORD’s declaration — when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the one who treads grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, and all the hills will flow with it.

¹⁴I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel. They will rebuild and occupy ruined cities, plant vineyards and drink their wine, make gardens and eat their produce.

¹⁵I will plant them on their land, and they will never again be uprooted from the land I have given them. The LORD your God has spoken.

¹The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord GOD has said about Edom: We have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy has been sent among the nations: “Rise up, and let us go to war against her.”

²Look, I will make you insignificant among the nations; you will be deeply despised.

³Your arrogant heart has deceived you, you who live in clefts of the rock in your home on the heights, who say to yourself, “Who can bring me down to the ground?”

⁴Though you seem to soar like an eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down. This is the LORD’s declaration.

⁵If thieves came to you, if marauders by night — how ravaged you would be! — wouldn’t they steal only what they wanted? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn’t they leave some grapes?

⁶How Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures searched out!

⁷Everyone who has a treaty with you will drive you to the border; everyone at peace with you will deceive and conquer you. Those who eat your bread will set a trap for you. He will be unaware of it.

⁸In that day — this is the LORD’s declaration — will I not eliminate the wise ones of Edom and those who understand from the hill country of Esau?

⁹Teman, your warriors will be terrified so that everyone from the hill country of Esau will be destroyed by slaughter.

¹⁰You will be covered with shame and destroyed forever because of violence done to your brother Jacob.

¹¹On the day you stood aloof, on the day strangers captured his wealth, while foreigners entered his city gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.

¹²Do not gloat over your brother in the day of his calamity; do not rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction; do not boastfully mock in the day of distress.

¹³Do not enter my people’s city gate in the day of their disaster. Yes, you — do not gloat over their misery in the day of their disaster, and do not appropriate their possessions in the day of their disaster.

¹⁴Do not stand at the crossroads to cut off their fugitives, and do not hand over their survivors in the day of distress.

¹⁵For the day of the LORD is near, against all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; what you deserve will return on your own head.

¹⁶As you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and gulp down and be as though they had never been.

¹⁷But there will be a deliverance on Mount Zion, and it will be holy; the house of Jacob will dispossess those who dispossessed them.

¹⁸Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, and the house of Joseph, a burning flame, but the house of Esau will be stubble; Jacob will set them on fire and consume Edom. Therefore no survivor will remain of the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken.

¹⁹People from the Negev will possess the hill country of Esau; those from the Judean foothills will possess the land of the Philistines. They will possess the territories of Ephraim and Samaria, while Benjamin will possess Gilead.

²⁰The exiles of the Israelites who are in Halah and who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath as well as the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the Negev.

²¹Saviors will ascend Mount Zion to rule over the hill country of Esau, but the kingdom will be the LORD’s.

¹The word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai:

²“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it because their evil has come up before me.”

³Jonah got up to flee to Tarshish from the LORD’s presence. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. He paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the LORD’s presence.

⁴But the LORD threw a great wind onto the sea, and such a great storm arose on the sea that the ship threatened to break apart.

⁵The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his god. They threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load. Meanwhile, Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel and had stretched out and fallen into a deep sleep.

⁶The captain approached him and said, “What are you doing sound asleep? Get up! Call to your god. Maybe this god will consider us, and we won’t perish.”

⁷“Come on!” the sailors said to each other. “Let’s cast lots. Then we’ll know who is to blame for this trouble we’re in.” So they cast lots, and the lot singled out Jonah.

⁸Then they said to him, “Tell us who is to blame for this trouble we’re in. What is your business, and where are you from? What is your country, and what people are you from?”

⁹He answered them, “I’m a Hebrew. I worship the LORD, the God of the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land.”

¹⁰Then the men were seized by a great fear and said to him, “What is this you’ve done?” The men knew he was fleeing from the LORD’s presence because he had told them.

¹¹So they said to him, “What should we do to you so that the sea will calm down for us?” For the sea was getting worse and worse.

¹²He answered them, “Pick me up and throw me into the sea so that it will calm down for you, for I know that I’m to blame for this great storm that is against you.”

¹³Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they couldn’t because the sea was raging against them more and more.

¹⁴So they called out to the LORD: “Please, LORD, don’t let us perish because of this man’s life, and don’t charge us with innocent blood! For you, LORD, have done just as you pleased.”

¹⁵Then they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped its raging.

¹⁶The men were seized by great fear of the LORD, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows.

¹⁷The LORD appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.