Jonah 4:11

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

They rose up in the morning early and worshiped Yahweh, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.

Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;

For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”

When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.

Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”

I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.

As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

But I will bring your little ones that you said should be captured or killed in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.

Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play.

Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?

Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.

For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;

Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he will save his soul alive.

Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”

“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”

So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to Yahweh’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.

A revelation about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.”

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.

It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

God’s anger burned because he went; and Yahweh’s angel placed himself in the way as an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.

Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be captured or killed, your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there. I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.

Their children, whom he raised up in their place, were circumcised by Joshua, for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way.

She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”

Now therefore stand still, that I may plead with you before Yahweh concerning all the righteous acts of Yahweh, which he did to you and to your fathers.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.

You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.

If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

When the Almighty scattered kings in her, it snowed on Zalmon.

How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.

These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.

Yahweh remembers us. He will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron.

who remembered us in our low estate; for his loving kindness endures forever;

who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever.

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.

“Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let’s meet together for judgment.

“Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has done that which is lawful and right. He will surely live.

“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.”

Hear, you mountains, Yahweh’s controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.

“For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.

Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’

The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.

God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every animal of the earth.

Yahweh’s angel said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me.

For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.

He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:

Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

For before the child knows to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.

For before the child knows how to say, ‘My father,’ and, ‘My mother,’ the riches of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried away by the king of Assyria.”

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.

Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”

Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness spring up, for the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares,