Thanksgiving For God's Powerful Deliverance

II Samuel Chapter 23

And Davide spake unto The Lord the words of this song in the day that The Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies:

When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid, the sorrows of hell compassed me about, the snares of death prevented me ... in my distress I called upon The Lord, and cried to my God ... and He did hear my voice out of His temple, and my cry did enter into His ears.

Then the earth shook and trembled, the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because He was wroth.

There went up a smoke out of His nostrils, and fire out of His mouth devoured ... coals were kindled by it.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down ... and the darkness was under His feet.

And He rode upon a cherub and did fly ... and He was seen upon the wings of the wind.

And He made darkness pavilions round about Him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

Through the brightness before Him were coals of fire kindled.

The Lord thundered from heaven ... and the most High uttered His voice.

And He sent out arrows, and scattered them ... lightning and discomfited them.

And the channels of the sea appeared ... the foundations of the earth were discovered, at the rebuking of The Lord, at the blast of the breath of His nostrils.

He sent from above ... He took me, He drew me out of many waters.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me ... for they were too strong for me.

The Lord liveth, and blessed be my rock ... and exalted be The God of the rock of my salvation.

It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me.

He is the Tower of Salvation for His king ... and sheweth mercy to His anointed.

Jonah Went To Nineveh With Very Bad News

Jonah Chapter 3

And the Word of The Lord came unto Jonah, the second time, saying: 'Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.'

So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the Word of The Lord.

Now, Nineveh was an exceedingly great city of three day's journey.

And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey ... and he cried and said:'Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.'

So the people of Nineveh believed God ... and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.

For the word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne ... and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth and sat in the ashes.

And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the degree of the king, and his nobles, saying:

'Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water ... but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God ... yea, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the voilence that is in their hands.

Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from His fierce anger, that we perish not?'

And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way ... and God repented from the evil, that He had said that He would do unto them ... and He did not.

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