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Jonah · read by Steve Clark
12 verses, in order. Only the verses Steve read aloud are shown.
Jonah 3
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On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!"Read from KJV · God's Love and His Vengeance
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And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.Read from KJV · God's Love and His Vengeance
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When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.Read from KJV · God's Love and His Vengeance
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Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: "By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let no man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink.Read from KJV · God's Love and His Vengeance
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Furthermore, let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and have everyone call out earnestly to God. Let each one turn from his evil ways and from the violence in his hands.Read from KJV · God's Love and His Vengeance
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Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish."Read from KJV · God's Love and His Vengeance
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When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.Read from KJV · God's Love and His Vengeance
Jonah 4
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Jonah, however, was greatly displeased, and he became angry.Read from KJV · God's Love and His Vengeance
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So he prayed to the LORD, saying, "O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.Read from KJV · God's Love and His Vengeance
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And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live."Read from KJV · God's Love and His Vengeance
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But the LORD said, "You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.Read from KJV · God's Love and His Vengeance
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So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?"Read from KJV · God's Love and His Vengeance