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Jeremiah 7:25-26 25 From the time your ancestors left Egypt until now, day after day, again and again I sent you my servants the prophets. 26 But they did not listen to me or pay attention. They were stiff-necked and did more evil than their ancestors.’

Isaiah is most famous for his descriptions of God’s Messiah, among which is this passage from Isaiah 53:4-6
Jeremiah wrote Jeremiah and Lamentations
Ezekiel 以西結書 37:1-14  Israel had failed, but God had not forgotten them and would one day restore and redeem them. This hope in an eventual restoration is vividly portrayed in the famous story of the“valley of dry bones”

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Daniel 6; Daniel in the Den of Lions.

Hosea (Persevering Love)
Joel (The Coming of the Day of Yahweh)
Amos (Judgment for Abused Privilege)
Obadiah (Poetic Justice)
Jonah 2  (Fleeing From God’s Will) Jonah's prayer 4:2
Micah (Who Is Like God?)
Nahum (The Doom of Nineveh)
Habakkuk (Solution to Perplexity) 
It concerns the problems of his faith in the face of two apparent difficulties: (1) Why did God permit the increasing evil in Judah to go unpunished (1:2-4)? And how could a Holy God (1:13) use sinful nations like Babylon as His source of judgment (1:12-2:1)? 哈巴谷書 3:17-19
Zephaniah (Blessing Through Judgment)
Haggai (Encouragement)
Zechariah (the Jealousy of Yahweh)
Malachi (Repent and Return)

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The Major Prophets are Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, and Daniel. The Minor Prophets are Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi.
The Major Prophets are described as “major” because their books are longer and the content has broad, even global implications. The Minor Prophets are described as “minor” because their books are shorter (although Hosea and Zechariah are almost as long as Daniel) and the content is more narrowly focused. 

(1) warning of impending judgment because of the nations’ sinfulness; (2) a description of the sin; (3) a description of the coming judgment; (4) a call for repentance; and (5) a promise of future deliverance.

We read of Christ’s birth in Isaiah and Micah. We learn of Christ’s atoning sacrifice in Isaiah. We read of Christ’s return in Ezekiel, Daniel, and Zechariah. We learn of God’s holiness, wrath, grace, and mercy in all of the Major and Minor Prophets. For that, they are most worthy of our attention and study.

The preexilic prophets came to warn of impending judgment. Obadiah wrote to or about Edom. Amos, Hosea and Joel wrote to the northern kingdom. Isaiah, Micah, Nahum, Habbakkuk, Zephaniah and Jeremiah wrote to warn Judah. 

The exilic prophets wrote to assure the people that God would restore them to the land. Ezekiel and Daniel wrote from Babylon to encourage the people that God would restore the nation. 

The post exilic prophets wrote to assure the people that God would deal with the restored community according to the same principles. They might have been tempted to think that because Babylonia had defeated Israel, the Babylonian gods were superior to Yahweh. One of the postexilic prophet's jobs was to point out that Yahweh was superior and the only reason Israel was defeated was because Yahweh was disciplining them. Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi were writing to the people who had returned to Jerusalem from Babylon.