Jonah 1:1-2 Part 3 of 3

The word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai: "Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me."

 

because its wickedness has come up before me

Jonah 3:8-10  "But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence. Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish."

    When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.

Nahum 1:11  From you, Nineveh, has one come forth who plots evil against the LORD and devises wicked plans.

Nahum 3:1  Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without victims!

Nahum 3:3b-4  Many casualties, piles of dead, bodies without number, people stumbling over corpses--all because of the wanton lust of a prostitute, alluring, the mistress of sorceries, who enslaved nations by her prostitution and peoples by her witchcraft.

Nahum 3:16  You have increased the number of your merchants till they are more numerous than the stars of the sky, but like locusts they strip the land and then fly away.

Nahum 3:19  Nothing can heal you; your wound is fatal. All who hear the news about you clap their hands at your fall, for who has not felt your endless cruelty?

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