⁸ The cry of the lion is sounding; who will not have fear? The Lord God has said the word; is it possible for the prophet to keep quiet?

²⁰ For it is not possible for us to keep from saying what we have seen and have knowledge of.

⁴ Will a lion give his loud cry in the woodland when no food is there? will the voice of the young lion be sounding from his hole if he has taken nothing?

⁹ And if I say, I will not keep him in mind, I will not say another word in his name; then it is in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am tired of keeping myself in, I am not able to do it.

¹⁶ For if I am a preacher of the good news, I have no cause for pride in this; because I am forced to do so, for a curse is on me if I do not.

¹² And Amaziah said to Amos, O seer, go in flight into the land of Judah, and there get your living by working as a prophet:

¹³ But be a prophet no longer at Beth-el: for it is the holy place of the king, and the king's house.

¹⁴ Then Amos in answer said to Amaziah, I am no prophet, or one of the sons of the prophets; I am a herdman and one who takes care of sycamore-trees:

¹⁵ And the Lord took me from the flock, and the Lord said to me, Go, be a prophet to my people Israel.

¹⁶ Now then, give ear to the word of the Lord: You say, Be no prophet to Israel, and say not a word against the people of Isaac.

¹⁷ So this is what the Lord has said: Your wife will be a loose woman in the town, and your sons and your daughters will be put to the sword, and your land will be cut up into parts by a line; and you yourself will come to your end in an unclean land, and Israel will certainly be taken away a prisoner out of his land.

¹² But to those who were separate you gave wine for drink; and to the prophets you said, Be prophets no longer.

² And he said, The Lord will give a lion's cry from Zion, his voice will be sounding from Jerusalem; and the fields of the keepers of sheep will become dry, and the top of Carmel will be wasted away.

⁵ And one of the rulers said to me, Do not be sad: see, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome, and has power to undo the book and its seven stamps.

²⁹ But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man.

²⁰ Go, take your place in the Temple and give the people all the teaching about this Life.

¹ And the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying,

² Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and give it the word which I have given you.

³ So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh as the Lord had said. Now Nineveh was a very great town, three days' journey from end to end.

¹ And the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amittai, saying,

² Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and let your voice come to it; for their evil-doing has come up before me.

³ And Jonah got up to go in flight to Tarshish, away from the Lord; and he went down to Joppa, and saw there a ship going to Tarshish: so he gave them the price of the journey and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, away from the Lord.

¹⁸ For I am full of words, I am unable to keep in my breath any longer:

¹⁹ My stomach is like wine which is unable to get out; like skins full of new wine, it is almost burst.