Therefore they called out to the Lord, “O Lord, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not on us innocent blood, for you, O Lord, have done as it pleased you.”
Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.
Whatever the Lord pleases, he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all deeps.
Accept atonement, O Lord, for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and do not set the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel, so that their blood guilt be atoned for.’
In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.
yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.
Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows.
Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god. And they hurled the cargo that was 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.
At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation; all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”
making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ
When the native people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer. Though he has escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”
O Lord, in distress they sought you; they poured out a whispered prayer when your discipline was upon them.
“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.
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