The Twelve

Note that every book in its own pdf is available from this post. The tenor of the psalm in Jonah is g. It's a wonderful book to set to its music. Here's an arrangement - never yet performed.

Chapter	Syllables	Max Recit	c	d	e	f	g#	A	B	C
Hosea
1	309	17	0	1.62	16.18	11.33	12.94	13.92	26.21	17.80	The word of Yahweh that happened to Hosea, child of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, child of Joash, king of Israel.
2	850	17	0	1.65	21.65	8.59	16.12	11.41	22.94	17.65	Yet the count of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea which neither is measured nor counted. And it will happen in the place where it was said of them, You are not my people, it will be said of them, Children of the living One.
3	187	18	1.6	2.14	15.51	13.90	13.90	9.63	38.50	4.81	And said Yahweh to me, Still go, love a wife loved by her friend, and an adulterer, like the love of Yahweh toward the children of Israel, and they who face to other gods, and who love raisin cakes of grapes.
4	520	24	1.92	3.85	20.58	9.81	17.31	11.73	27.88	6.92	Hear the word of Yahweh, children of Israel, for Yahweh has a contention with the inhabitants of the land, for there is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the land.
5	433	16	0	1.15	20.79	9.47	18.71	11.55	21.48	16.86	Hear this O priests, and attend O house of Israel, and house of the king, lend an ear, for to you is the judgment, for a snare you are for Mizpah and a net spread over Tabor.
6	250	11	0	.80	31.20	12.40	24.40	14.80	11.20	5.20	Come and let us return to Yahweh for he tears and he heals, he strikes and he binds us up.
7	443	13	1.35	2.71	19.41	13.09	18.51	12.87	23.48	8.58	As I was about to heal Israel, then uncovered was the iniquity of Ephraim and the evil of Samaria, for they work falsehood. The thief comes. A raiding party pillages outside.
8	353	20	0	1.70	20.68	10.20	19.26	11.90	24.93	11.33	To your palate, shophar, like an eagle over the house of Yahweh, because they go beyond my covenant and against my instruction they have transgressed.
9	494	13	0	1.42	17.81	11.54	19.64	8.91	25.30	15.38	Do not be glad, Israel. No rejoicing as the peoples, for you play the harlot from your God. You love for a fee over every threshing-floor of grain.
10	467	16	1.07	1.50	18.20	9.85	18.42	10.28	28.48	12.21	A vine evacuated is Israel, fruit conferred for itself, As the multitude of its fruit, so is the multitude of altars. As good as its land, is the good of monuments.
11	305	14	.66	1.64	13.77	16.72	18.03	9.84	22.62	16.72	When Israel was a youth I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my child.
12	382	11	.52	2.62	21.20	18.06	20.16	10.73	14.66	12.04	Ephraim surrounds me with dissimulation, and with deceit, the house of Israel, and Judah ever is restless with the One, and with the holy ones is faithful.
13	397	17	0	.50	18.64	14.36	19.90	11.08	24.43	11.08	When Ephraim spoke nervously, he lifted himself up in Israel, but he bore guilt in Baal, and he died.
14	284	16	.7	1.41	16.55	10.21	22.54	8.10	29.58	10.92	Samaria will bear its guilt, for it was provocative with its God. By the sword it will fall. Their infants will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women will be split in two. P
Joel
1	538	14	0	1.12	19.14	12.45	18.22	10.04	28.07	10.97	The word of Yahweh which happened to Joel, child of Petuel.
2	918	29	1.2	2.07	16.01	10.57	15.80	9.59	26.80	17.97	Sound a shophar in Zion and raise a shout on my holy hill. Let all inhabitants of the land shudder, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is near.
3	167	16	2.4	1.20	20.36	5.39	18.56	14.97	30.54	6.59	And it will happen after such that I will pour out my spirit over all flesh and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your elders will dream dreams. Your chosen will see visions.
4	670	16	.75	1.94	19.10	12.24	15.97	15.52	25.22	9.25	For behold in those days and at that time, that I turn the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
Amos
1	509	16	1.18	1.77	13.56	10.22	15.13	15.32	31.24	11.59	The words of Amos, who was among the herdsfolk from Tekoa, on which he gazed over Israel in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, child of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the quake.
2	516	22	0	3.10	12.40	12.40	16.28	10.66	23.84	21.32	Thus says Yahweh, Over three transgressions of Moab and over four, I will not turn it, over their incineration of the bones of the king of Edom into lime.
3	472	12	2.33	3.60	16.74	9.53	16.10	12.50	25.21	13.98	Hear this matter that Yahweh spoke about you, the children of Israel, about all the families that I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,
4	523	18	.76	1.91	20.84	13.38	14.34	7.07	22.56	19.12	Hear this word, young bulls of Bashan who are in the hill of Samaria, the oppressors of the weak, who damage the needy, who say to their masters, Come let's party.
5	713	17	1.26	4.91	20.20	20.06	16.13	9.68	19.64	8.13	Hear this word that I lift up about you, a dirge for the house of Israel.
6	428	23	.7	3.50	18.46	16.36	14.25	10.51	23.36	12.85	Ho! those without a care in Zion and those trusting in the hill of Samaria, pierced as heads of the nations. And to them came the house of Israel.
7	550	13	.55	1.09	17.45	12.36	14.91	11.64	24.73	17.27	Thus he showed me, my Lord Yahweh, and behold, he who fashions the great grub at the start of the coming up of final crop, and behold, the final crop following the king's mowing.
8	445	22	.67	1.80	22.25	8.54	17.08	11.01	23.37	15.28	Thus showed me my Lord Yahweh: and behold a hamper of summer fruit.
9	620	21	.97	3.55	22.58	8.71	13.39	9.52	23.87	17.42	I have seen my Lord taking a stand over the altar and he said, Strike the capital and the doorway will quake, and find a mark on the head of every one of them, and the stragglers by the sword I will slay. Haven will not for them be haven and security will not be escape for them.
Obadiah
1	668	21	1.35	3.59	22.60	14.07	15.12	9.43	23.05	10.78	The vision of Obadiah. Thus says my Lord, Yahweh of Edom: what is heard we heard from Yahweh and notification into the nations sent, Arise, and let us arise against her in battle.
Jonah
1	607	23	2.31	3.29	18.78	9.56	13.84	9.88	32.62	9.72	And the word of Yahweh happened to Jonah [Dove] child of Amittai, saying,
2	281	10	2.14	4.27	16.01	11.74	23.49	11.03	11.74	19.57	And Yahweh appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And it happened: Jonah in the innards of the fish three days and three nights.
3	341	13	2.05	6.16	19.65	10.26	14.96	12.32	22.87	11.73	And the word of Yahweh happened to Jonah a second time, saying,
4	396	13	0	2.53	18.43	13.38	14.39	8.33	24.49	18.43	And this was evil for Jonah, great evil, and he was burning with his anger.
Micah
1	501	20	.8	2.00	15.17	13.97	18.56	12.38	23.75	13.37	The word of Yahweh that happened to Micah the Morashite in the days of Jotham Ahaz Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he gazed on over Samaria and Jerusalem.
2	418	14	1.2	2.87	19.62	10.53	20.10	9.09	20.81	15.79	Ho, you who devise mischief and work evil on where they lie down. In the light of the morning they do it, for it is in the god of their hand.
3	409	20	0	.24	12.47	8.80	15.65	11.98	34.47	16.38	And I said, Hear if you will, heads of Jacob and dictators of the house of Israel, is it not for you to know judgment?
4	540	34	1.67	4.26	20.56	8.33	13.70	11.85	28.33	11.30	And it will be, in the aftermath of the days, the hill of the house of Yahweh will be established as the first of the hills, and it will be itself lifted up among the hillocks, and peoples will flow together upon it.
5	440	22	2.05	2.50	23.64	10.91	19.09	12.73	20.23	8.86	But you, Bethlehem Ephratah, being of little account among the thousands of Judah, from you for me comes forth one who is to become governor in Israel, and whose goings forth came before from the days of eras past.
6	475	19	0	1.05	16.00	12.00	15.79	16.21	27.37	11.58	Hear if you will what Yahweh is saying. Arise, contend with the hills. Let the hillocks hear your voice.
7	583	11	.34	2.06	13.55	9.61	18.18	11.66	23.16	21.44	Alack for me, for I am as the gatherings of summer, as grape-gleanings of a vintage. There is no cluster to eat. First ripe fruit I desire.
Nahum
1	364	14	2.2	1.10	14.01	10.71	18.68	14.01	18.96	20.33	The load of Nineveh, the record of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
2	433	21	.69	1.62	25.40	11.78	17.09	15.94	21.48	6.00	Behold over the hills are the feet of one who publishes, broadcasting peace. In my festive sacrifices, Judah, be festive. Pay your vows, for worthlessness will not again pass through you any more. All of it is cut off.
3	550	14	1.64	4.73	16.91	9.64	19.27	11.09	23.27	13.45	Alas city of blood, faint with cringing, rent apart, full of unfeeling prey,
Habakkuk
1	465	14	1.94	4.52	18.06	13.12	17.42	12.04	23.23	9.68	The load which Habakkuk the prophet gazed on.
2	585	15	0	.85	10.43	12.31	20.00	12.48	24.10	19.83	On my watch I will stand and I will station myself on the fortification. And I will be on lookout to see what he will speak in me and what I will bring back concerning my correction.
3	524	16	0	1.15	14.89	11.07	19.47	10.69	20.61	22.14	The prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, over a reel.
Zephaniah
1	619	19	1.29	2.26	20.52	14.70	16.80	7.75	24.56	12.12	The word of Yahweh that happened to Zephaniah, child of Cushi, child of Gedoliah, child of Amariah, child of Hezekiah, in the days of Amon's child, Josiah, king of Judah.
2	500	22	.6	2.00	15.00	9.40	13.80	9.40	32.20	17.60	Assemble yourselves together and assemble together, O nation not ached for.
3	642	25	2.8	3.74	15.26	9.03	14.95	13.24	29.13	11.84	Alas for her that is flighty and sullied, for the suppressing city!
Haggai
1	570	26	2.11	3.33	13.86	13.86	14.91	10.70	33.16	8.07	In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth new moon on the first day of the month, it happened that Yahweh spoke by the hand of Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel child of Shealtiel, viceroy of Judah, and to Joshua, child of Yehotsedek, the great priest, saying,
2	854	33	3.51	4.68	15.57	8.55	14.17	12.30	27.05	14.17	In the seventh, on the twenty first of the month, it happened that Yahweh spoke by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying,
Zechariah
1	658	19	1.06	2.58	14.59	10.79	13.83	7.60	40.88	8.66	In the eighth new moon in the second year of Darius, it happened that Yahweh spoke to Zechariah, child of Berechiah, child of Iddo the prophet, saying,
2	502	27	1.2	5.58	14.94	14.54	19.12	8.96	28.09	7.57	And I lifted up my eyes and I saw. And behold, four horns.
3	393	23	1.02	4.07	17.30	9.92	11.45	11.96	31.81	12.47	And he showed me Joshua the great priest standing in the presence of the angel of Yahweh, and the accuser standing at his right hand to accuse him.
4	436	20	.92	2.06	15.37	15.37	16.74	11.93	26.38	11.24	And the angel of the one speaking in me turned, and aroused me, as a person who is roused from its sleep.
5	365	18	0	3.29	18.63	13.42	17.81	10.96	28.22	7.67	And I turned and I lifted up my eyes and I saw, and behold a flying scroll.
6	515	20	0	.97	20.19	14.95	15.15	13.01	26.99	8.74	And I turned and I lifted up my eyes and I saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two of the hills, and the hills were hills of brass.
7	458	19	.66	1.97	21.83	11.57	13.97	10.92	27.07	12.01	And it was in the fourth year of Darius, the king, the word of Yahweh happened to Zechariah on the fourth of the ninth month, Kislev.
8	852	26	1.06	3.05	15.14	10.09	12.91	12.09	31.34	14.32	And the word of Yahweh of hosts happened, saying,
9	533	23	1.31	.94	21.95	10.51	15.95	12.20	23.83	13.32	A load, the matter of Yahweh in the land of Hadrak and Damascus, his resting-place, for to Yahweh is the eye of a human and all the sceptres of Israel.
10	408	14	.74	2.21	23.77	9.07	14.95	11.27	23.77	14.22	Ask from Yahweh rain in the time of the maturing rain, Yahweh making thunderbolts, and rain showers he will give to them, to each one for herbs in the field.
11	582	20	.69	1.55	17.35	14.95	15.98	13.75	25.43	10.31	Open Lebanon your gateways, and fire will devour your cedars.
12	544	14	2.57	4.96	13.79	11.40	13.97	11.03	27.02	15.26	A load, the matter of Yahweh over Israel, an oracle of Yahweh, stretching out the heavens, and founding earth, and fashioning the spirit of a human within it. P
13	355	20	5.07	3.10	14.37	13.52	13.24	8.45	27.61	14.65	In that day there will be a fountain opened for the house David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for a sin offering and for sequestering.
14	861	19	1.16	2.44	22.88	10.34	12.89	11.61	31.71	6.97	Behold, a day comes of Yahweh, and divided are your spoils among you.
Malachi
1	567	30	0	3.70	16.58	10.41	11.46	12.52	29.81	15.52	A load of the matter of Yahweh, to Israel, by the hand of Malachi.
2	631	17	.79	1.74	13.47	12.36	13.63	10.78	29.79	17.43	So now to you this commandment, O priests.
3	879	27	.91	1.93	15.02	8.87	14.45	12.86	28.33	17.63	Behold me, I will send my messenger, and he will face a journey before me. And suddenly he will come to his temple, the Lord whom you are seeking, and the messenger of the covenant whom you delight in. Behold he comes, says Yahweh of hosts.