Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jonah+004   Jonah 4 (ESV) Jonah’s Anger and the Lord’s Compassion 4 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. 2 And he prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jonah+003   Jonah 3 (ESV) Jonah Goes to Nineveh 1 Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.” 3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jonah+002   Jonah 2 (ESV) Jonah’s Prayer 1 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish, 2 saying, “I called out to the Lord, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and you heard my voice. 3 For you cast me into the deep,…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jonah+001   JONAH INTRODUCTION The book relates how the word of the Lord came to Jonah, a prophet during the reign of Jeroboam II in the 8th century BC. It is unique among prophetic books in focusing on a story about a prophet rather than a collection of oracles. The book contains…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Obadiah+001   OBADIAH INTRODUCTION When Judah’s capital city of Jerusalem fell to the Babylonian army in 587/6 BC, those in the neighboring kingdom of Edom joined in looting the city. They intercepted fleeing Judeans and turned them over to the Babylonians to be executed or enslaved. They showed no compassion even…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Amos+009   Amos 9 (ESV) The Restoration of Israel 11 “In that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its breaches, and raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old, 12 that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Amos+008   Amos 8 (ESV) 11 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God, “when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. 12 They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Amos+007   Amos 7 (ESV) 1 This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, he was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings. 2 When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Amos+006   Amos 6 (ESV) 12 Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood— 13 you who rejoice in Lo-debar, who say, “Have we not by our own strength captured Karnaim for ourselves?” 14 “For behold, I will raise up against you a…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Amos+005   Amos 5 (ESV) 21 “I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. 22 Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I will not look upon them. 23 Take away…