"Never have mercy on anyone who does not deserve mercy" and "Never forgive anyone who does not deserve to be forgiven."
God Himself had no mercy on the homosexuals of Sodom and Gomorrah, but instead rained [meteoritic?] fire and brimstone down on them.
The LORD had no mercy on Pharaoh and his Egyptian army, but executed all their firstborn and then drowned them in the Red Sea.
The Lord's prophet Samuel had no mercy on King Agag, but instead "hewed him in pieces;" David had no mercy on Goliath but stoned him and then cut off his head.
The angel of the Lord had no mercy on the Assyrian army, but executed 185,000 of them in one night, executed the false prophet Hananiah who had opposed Jeremiah, caused dishonestly-lying Ananias and Sapphira to suddenly drop dead at the feet of Saint Peter, and struck King Herod dead as recorded in the New-Testament book of Acts.
But, isn't it: "Never a sin so great but He will forgive it?"
No way.
Leviticus 24:16 He who blasphemes the name of the LORD shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him; the sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
Mark 3:29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin.
Luke 12:10 And every one who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
And we are not only talking about "rejecting Christ as Savior." Re-read the EXACT words of the verses above, and do not try to misinterpret them into something else the Spirit never intended! Watch your mouth, and be cautious what you utter to the Almighty!
So, let me repeat what wimpish fear-of-man cowards trying to play god by mis-attempting to please both Jesus and Satan will neither believe or say:
"Never have mercy on anyone who does not deserve mercy" and "Never forgive anyone who does not deserve to be forgiven."
But, how does one honestly and accurately determine who to not have mercy on, and who to not forgive?
Scripture gives both answers and examples resolving that interrogative:
Ruth 1:22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess (sort of like a despised-Samaritan foreigner or half-breed) her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest. [And both were discovered by a Hebrew/Jew named Boaz].
4:5 Then Boaz said, "The day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you are also buying Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of the dead, in order to restore the name of the dead to his inheritance."
Ruth 4:10 Also Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place; you are witnesses this day."
13 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her [ graphically/explicitly how, and in what position(s)? ], and the LORD gave her conception, and she bore a son.
14 Then the women said to Naomi, "Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without next of kin; and may his name be renowned in Israel!
17 And the women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, "A son has been born to Naomi." They named him Obed; he was the father of Jesse, the father of David. [ A foreigner, Ruth the Moabitess, in the royal Hebrew/Jewish line of David? Has the purity of the Master Race been thus defiled?]
First Samuel 15:22 And Samuel said, "Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Hey, to obey is better than sacrifice [ Oh, pardon me: I mis-thought that it was THE Sacrifice of blessing bread and wine into bloody-body eucharist, then ingesting it cannibalistically like Dracula ], and to respond than the fat of rams.
Psalm 51:17 The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit [ Oh, pardon me: I mis-thought that it was THE Sacrifice of blessing bread and wine into bloody-body eucharist, then ingesting it cannibalistically like Dracula ]; a broken and contrite heart, Oh God, you will not despise.
Psalm 116:17 I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving [ Oh, pardon me: I mis-thought that it was THE Sacrifice of blessing bread and wine into bloody-body eucharist, then ingesting it cannibalistically like Dracula ] and call on the name of the LORD.
Psalm 119:21 You do rebuke the insolent, accursed ones, who wander from your commandments.
Does THAT sound like "unconditional love?" Tolerance? Non-discrimination? Non-narrow-mindedly/non-closed-mindedly allowing for diversity? Absence of bigotry and bias? Or instead mean-spiritedness? Cruel and intolerant hate speech?
That deserve separation of "church"/synagogue/mosque and "state?"
Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Does THAT sound like "unconditional love?" Tolerance? Non-discrimination? Non-narrow-mindedly/non-closed-mindedly allowing for diversity? Absence of bigotry and bias? Or instead mean-spiritedness? Cruel and intolerant hate speech?
That deserve separation of "church"/synagogue/mosque and "state?"
Proverbs 21:3 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice [ Oh, pardon me: I mis-thought that it was THE Sacrifice of blessing bread and wine into bloody-body eucharist, then ingesting it cannibalistically like Dracula ].
Proverbs 21:27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with evil intent.
Does THAT sound like "unconditional love?" Tolerance? Non-discrimination? Non-narrow-mindedly/non-closed-mindedly allowing for diversity? Absence of bigotry and bias? Or instead mean-spiritedness? Cruel and intolerant hate speech?
That deserve separation of "church"/synagogue/mosque, and "state?"
Ecclesiastes 5:1 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; to draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know that they are doing evil.
Does THAT sound like "unconditional love?" Tolerance? Non-discrimination? Non-narrow-mindedly/non-closed-mindedly allowing for diversity? Absence of bigotry and bias? Or instead mean-spiritedness? Cruel and intolerant hate speech?
That deserve separation of "church"/synagogue/mosque, and "state?"
Matthew 18:15 If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
Matthew 23:23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faith; these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
Does THAT sound like "unconditional love?" Tolerance? Non-discrimination? Non-narrow-mindedly/non-closed-mindedly allowing for diversity? Absence of bigotry and bias? Or instead mean-spiritedness? Cruel and intolerant hate speech?
That deserve separation of "church"/synagogue/mosque and "state?"
Luke 17:3 Watch out: if your brother sins, tell him off, and if he repents, forgive him
Luke 17:4 and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, and says, 'I repent,' you must forgive him."
John 9:41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, 'We see,' your guilt remains.
Does THAT sound like "unconditional love?" Tolerance? Non-discrimination? Non-narrow-mindedly/non-closed-mindedly allowing for diversity? Absence of bigotry and bias? Or instead mean-spiritedness? Cruel and intolerant hate speech?
That deserve separation of "church"/synagogue/mosque, and "state?"
Acts 10:9 The next day, as they were on their journey and coming near the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour.
10 And he became hungry and desired something to eat; but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance
11 and saw the heaven opened, and something descending, like a great sheet, let down by four corners upon the earth.
12 In it were all kinds of animals [maybe even pigs and rabbits and rattlers and bats and camels ] and reptiles and birds of the air.
13 And there came a voice to him, "Rise, Peter; kill and eat."
14 But Peter said, "No, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean."
15 And the voice came to him again a second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call common."
16 This happened three times, and the thing was taken up at once to heaven.
17 Now while Peter was inwardly perplexed as to what the vision which he had seen might mean, hey, the men that were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon's house, stood before the gate
18 and called out to ask whether Simon who was called Peter was lodging there.
19 And while Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Hey, three men are looking for you. [the Italien Mafia?]
20 Rise and go down, and accompany them without hesitation; for I have sent them."
21 And Peter went down to the men and said, "I am the one you are looking for; what is the reason for your coming?"
22 And they said, "Cornelius, [ a mob hitman with a silencer/noise-suppressor on his pistol and high-powered rifle with infrared scope? ] a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who is well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house, and to hear what you have to say."
23 So he called them in to be his guests [ Capone, Nitti, Ness? ]. The next day he rose and went off with them, and some of the brethren from Joppa accompanied him.
24 And on the following day they entered Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives [ "The Family"? ] and close friends.
25 When Peter entered, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshiped him.
26 But Peter lifted him up, saying, "Stand up; I too am a man."
27 And as he talked with him, he went in and found many persons gathered;
28 and he said to them, "You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit any one of another nation; but God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
29 So when I was sent for, I came without objection. I ask then why you sent for me."
30 And Cornelius said, "Four days ago, about this hour, I was keeping the ninth hour of prayer in my house; and hey, a man stood before me in bright apparel,
31 saying, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God.
32 Send therefore to Joppa and ask for Simon who is called Peter; he is lodging in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the seaside.'
33 So I sent to you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God, to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord."
34 And Peter opened his mouth and said: "Truly I perceive that God shows no partiality,
35 but in every nation any one who fears Him and does what is right is acceptable to Him.
36 You know the word which he sent to Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ (He is Lord of all),
37 the word which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism which John preached:
38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how He went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed by The Devil, for God was with Him.
39 And we are witnesses to all that He did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They put Him to death by hanging Him on a tree;
40 but God raised Him on the third day and made Him manifest;
41 not to all the people but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses, who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead.
42 And He commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that He is the one ordained by God to be Judge . . .
Romans 2:14 When the nations who have not the law do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.
15 They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or perhaps excuse them
16 on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of humans by Christ Jesus.
17 But if you call yourself a Jew and rely upon the law and boast of your relation to God
18 and know His will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed in the law,
19 and if you are sure that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth--
21 you then who teach others, will you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal?
22 You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
23 You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
24 For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the nations because of you."
25 Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law; but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. [ Kinky, for a male human only ]
26 So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
27 Then those who are physically uncircumcised but keep the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law.
28 For he is not a real Jew who is one outwardly, nor is true circumcision something external and physical.
29 He is a Jew who is one inwardly, and real [ penis-snipping ] circumcision is a matter of the heart, spiritual and not literal. His praise is not from men but from God.
Romans 12:1 I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice [Oh, pardon me: I mis-thought that it was THE Sacrifice of blessing bread and wine into bloody-body eucharist, then ingesting it cannibalistically and like Dracula], holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Galatians 1:8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we preached to you, let him be accursed.
Galatians 1:9 As we have said before, so now I say again, If any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to that which you received, let him be accursed.
An antagonist might retort:
Does THAT sound like "unconditional love?" Tolerance? Non-discrimination? Non-narrow-mindedly/non-closed-mindedly allowing for diversity? Absence of bigotry and bias? Or instead mean-spiritedness? Cruel and intolerant hate speech?
That deserve separation of "church"/synagogue/mosque, and "state?"
Colossians 3:12 Put on [ not strip off ] then, as God's chosen ones, holy and loved, compassion, kindness, humility, compliance, and patience,
Colossians 3:13 tolerating one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Philippians 4:18 I have received full payment, and more; I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.
Hebrews 10:5 Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, "Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me;
8 When He said above, "You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings" (these are offered according to the law),
9 then he added, "Wow, I have come to do your will." He abolishes the first in order to establish the second.
10 And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
12 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God,
13 then to wait until His enemies should be made a stool for His feet.
14 For by a single offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.
15 And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,
16 "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days," says the Lord: "I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,"
17 then He adds, "I will remember their sins and their misdeeds no more."
18 Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,
20 by the new and living way which He opened for us through the curtain, that is, through His flesh,
21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water [ Ice Mountain is best? ].
James 4:17 Whoever knows what is right to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
An antagonist might retort:
Does THAT sound like "unconditional love?" Tolerance? Non-discrimination? Non-narrow-mindedly/non-closed-mindedly allowing for diversity? Absence of bigotry and bias? Or instead mean-spiritedness? Cruel and intolerant hate speech?
That deserve separation of "church"/synagogue/mosque and "state?"
Second Peter 2:14 They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!
An antagonist might retort:
Does THAT sound like "unconditional love?" Tolerance? Non-discrimination? Non-narrow-mindedly/non-closed-mindedly allowing for diversity? Absence of bigotry and bias? Or instead mean-spiritedness? Cruel and intolerant hate speech?
That deserve separation of "church"/synagogue/mosque, and "state?"
One must NEVER love a sexist feminist, homosexual, atheist, abortionist, evolutionist, immodest exhibitionist, pornographer, harlot or prostitute or pimp, fornicator or adulterer or homogay or homosodomite or idolater . . . unless and until they repent. However, it is the job of Christians to, in non-hypocritical disgusted anger and hateful hostility, with persistent perseverence (as much as practically and realistically possible), preach to such and attempt to proselytize them - convert them - whether or not Christians succeed in that noble endeavor:
Romans 16:17 I appeal to you, brothers, to take note of those who create dissensions and difficulties, in opposition to the doctrine which you have been taught; avoid them.
An antagonist might retort:
Does THAT sound like "unconditional love?" Tolerance? Non-discrimination? Non-narrow-mindedly/non-closed-mindedly allowing for diversity? Absence of bigotry and bias? Or instead mean-spiritedness? Cruel and intolerant hate speech?
That deserve separation of "church"/synagogue/mosque and "state?"
First Corinthians 16:22 If any one has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come!
An antagonist might retort:
Does THAT sound like "unconditional love?" Tolerance? Non-discrimination? Non-narrow-mindedly/non-closed-mindedly allowing for diversity? Absence of bigotry and bias? Or instead mean-spiritedness? Cruel and intolerant hate speech?
That deserve separation of "church"/synagogue/mosque, and "state?"
Second Thessalonians 3:14 If any one refuses to obey what we say in this letter, note that human, and have nothing to do with him or her, that he/she may be ashamed.
An antagonist might retort:
Does THAT sound like "unconditional love?" Tolerance? Non-discrimination? Non-narrow-mindedly/non-closed-mindedly allowing for diversity? Absence of bigotry and bias? Or instead mean-spiritedness? Cruel and intolerant hate speech?
That deserve separation of "church"/synagogue/mosque and "state?"
Second Timothy 2:24 And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kindly to every one, an apt teacher, forbearing,
Second Timothy 2:25 correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant that they will repent and come to know the truth
Second Timothy 4:2 preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching.
Titus 2:15 Declare these things; exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one disregard you.
Titus 3:1 Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for any honest work,
2 to speak evil of no one [ You brood of vipers, you whitewashed tombs, you blind fools! ], to avoid quarreling, to be gentle [ You brood of vipers, you whitewashed tombs, you blind fools! ], and to show perfect courtesy toward all humans [ You brood of vipers, you whitewashed tombs, you blind fools! Overturn those money-changer tables! ].
3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by men and hating one another [ tell it like it was, SAINT Paul ];
4 but when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,
5 He saved us, not because of deeds done by us in righteousness [ e.g. foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by men and hating one another ], but in virtue of His own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit,
6 which He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
7 so that we might be justified by His grace and become heirs in hope of eternal life.
8 The saying is sure. I desire you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to apply themselves to good works [ WORKS? NOT faith? ]; these are excellent and profitable to humans.
9 But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels over the law, for they are unprofitable and futile.
10 As for a human who is factious, after admonishing him/her once or twice, have nothing more to do with him/her,
11 knowing that such a person is perverted and sinful; he/she is self-condemned.
An antagonist might retort:
Does THAT sound like "unconditional love?" Tolerance? Non-discrimination? Non-narrow-mindedly/non-closed-mindedly allowing for diversity? Absence of bigotry and bias? Or instead mean-spiritedness? Cruel and intolerant hate speech?
That deserve separation of "church"/synagogue/mosque and "state?"
Second John 1:10 If any one comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him/her into the house or give him/her any greeting
An antagonist might retort:
Does THAT sound like "unconditional love?" Tolerance? Non-discrimination? Non-narrow-mindedly/non-closed-mindedly allowing for diversity? Absence of bigotry and bias? Or instead mean-spiritedness? Cruel and intolerant hate speech? Or judgmental?
That deserve separation . . . "
"Judgmental ( the antagonist is interrupted), huh? That's a new one. At least the semantics-blattered words-ordering you are hung up on incessantly repeating has not been changed concerning your same-old same-old mantra-ranting rhetoric. But, let's throw it all back at you, libtard idiot, rife and reeking with hypocrisy, plus being:
Nothing like a little variety. Get it all in - each one, every time - if you can, with your potty-mouthed-linked defective and despicable excuse for a brain."
I continue. Without being stopped. Without even pausing. Fully intent on conquering by Divinely-energized-and-empowered attrition:
Second Chronicles 19:2 But Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to King Jehoshaphat, "Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the LORD."
Psalm 119:113 I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.
Psalm 139:21 Do I not hate those who hate you, LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
Psalm 139:22 I hate them with perfect hatred; I consider them my enemies.
Hosea 9:15 Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal; there I began to hate them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.
Luke 14:26 If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
Matthew 15:4 For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die.'
Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.
Colossians 3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
Ephesians 5:29 For no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ does the church.
Acts 18:12 But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack upon Paul and brought him before the tribunal,
13 saying, "This man is persuading men to worship God contrary to the law."
14 But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it were a matter of wrongdoing or vicious crime, I should have reason to bear with you, O Jews;
15 but since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves; I refuse to be a judge of these things."
16 And he drove them from the tribunal.
However, IF a sinner (e.g. lying or mindless belligerent atheist, sassy and insubordinate confrontational feminist twit, defiant homoqueer, stuffy evolunatic, weaselwords-spouting baby-murdering abortionist, mopheaded/nude-armed/naked-legged/barefooted public-nuisance/lewd-indecent-conduct exhibitionist, harlot or whore model or pimp, anti-Israel antisemite, robber, murderer, etc.) DOES repent . . . well . . . .
One CAN get out of town for self-protection and so "not rock the boat," express desire for "escape-from-it-all(?)" suicide by being tossed into the sea or die by desert heatstroke (but without actually murdering onesself, being that sometimes God won't allow suicide to happen, then acknowledging that God is merciful and compassionate to the penitent, but then becoming enraged at a dying thief on some cross who had not worked during most of the heat of the day also getting a Paradise denarius at the last moment, plus pout and sulk and complain (while God patiently chides the prejudiced-mindset back to rational reason, like:)
Jonah 1:1 Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
2 "Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and lambast it; for their wickedness has come up before me."
3 But Jonah got up to run away to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went on board, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD.
4 But the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up.
5 Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried to his god; and they threw the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had lain down, and was fast asleep.
6 So the captain came and said to him, "What do you mean, you sleeper? Get up, call upon your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we do not perish."
7 And they said to one another, "Come, let us throw lots, that we may know on whose account this evil has come upon us." So they threw lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
8 Then they said to him, "Tell us, on whose account this evil has come upon us? What is your occupation? And from where do you come? What is your country? And of what people are you?"
9 And he said to them, "I am a Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land." [ Oh oh. ]
10 Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, "What is this that you have done!" For the men knew that he was running away from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.
11 Then they said to him, "What shall we do to you, that the sea may quiet down for us?" For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.
12 He said to them, "Take me up and [ murderously? ] throw me into the sea [ so that I can commit suicide with you to blame ]; then the sea will quiet down for you; for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you."
13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring the ship back to land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.
14 Therefore they cried to the LORD, "We beg you, LORD, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not on us innocent blood; for you, LORD, have done as it pleased you."
15 So they took up Jonah and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.
16 Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows.
17 And the LORD appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Jonah 2:1 Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish,
2 saying, "I called to the LORD, out of my distress, and He answered me . . .
4 Then I said, 'I am thrown out from your presence; how shall I again look upon your holy temple?'
7 When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer came to you, into your holy temple.
8 Those who pay regard to vain idols reject their true loyalty.
9 But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Deliverance belongs to the LORD!"
10 And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
Jonah 3:1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,
2 "Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you."
3 So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey in breadth.
4 Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he cried, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"
5 And the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.
6 Then news reached the king of Nineveh, and he got up from his throne, removed his robe, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 And he made [ Executive Order ] [Presidential ] proclamation and published through Nineveh, "By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, or drink water,
8 but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them cry mightily to God; yes, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence which is in his hands.
9 Who knows, God may yet repent and turn from His fierce anger, so that we perish not?"
10 When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the evil which He had said He would do to them; and He did not do it.
Jonha 4:1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
2 And he prayed to the LORD and said, "I pray you, LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I hurried to run away to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, full of continual love, and relent of retaliation.
3 Therefore now, LORD, take my life from me, I beg you, for it is better for me to die than to live."
4 And the LORD said, "Do you do well to be angry?"
5 Then Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city, and made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city.
6 And the LORD God appointed a plant, and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant.
7 But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm which attacked the plant, so that it withered.
8 When the sun rose, God appointed a sultry east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah so that he was faint; and he asked that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."
9 But God said to Jonah, "Do you do well to be angry for the plant?" And he said, "I do well to be angry, angry enough to die."
10 And the LORD said, "You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night, and perished in a night.
11 And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left [ dummies ], and also much cattle?"
Both Holsteins and Guernseys?
Pasteurized milk for all. 1%, 2%, and fattier?
Steak on hoof. Well done - not bloody rare.
Yummy.