Discovery Box| (0.31) | Amo 1:6 |
| This is what the Lord says: “Because Gaza 1 has committed three crimes 2 – make that four! 3 – I will not revoke my decree of judgment. 4 They deported a whole community 5 and sold them 6 to Edom. |
| (0.31) | Amo 1:9 |
| This is what the Lord says: “Because Tyre has committed three crimes 1 – make that four! 2 – I will not revoke my decree of judgment. 3 They sold 4 a whole community 5 to Edom; they failed to observe 6 a treaty of brotherhood. 7 |
| (0.31) | Amo 1:13 |
| This is what the Lord says: “Because the Ammonites have committed three crimes 1 – make that four! 2 – I will not revoke my decree of judgment. 3 They ripped open Gilead’s pregnant women 4 so they could expand their territory. |
| (0.31) | Amo 2:1 |
| This is what the Lord says: “Because Moab has committed three crimes 1 – make that four! 2 – I will not revoke my decree of judgment. 3 They burned the bones of Edom’s king into lime. 4 |
| (0.31) | Amo 2:6 |
| This is what the Lord says: “Because Israel has committed three covenant transgressions 1 – make that four! 2 – I will not revoke my decree of judgment. 3 They sold the innocent 4 for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals. 5 |
| (0.31) | Zep 3:15 |
| The Lord has removed the judgment against you; 1 he has turned back your enemy. Israel’s king, the Lord, is in your midst! You no longer need to fear disaster. |
| (0.31) | Zep 3:20 |
| At that time I will lead you – at the time I gather you together. 1 Be sure of this! 2 I will make all the nations of the earth respect and admire you 3 when you see me restore you,” 4 says the Lord. |
| (0.27) | 2Sa 24:16 |
| When the angel 1 extended his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord relented from his judgment. 2 He told the angel who was killing the people, “That’s enough! Stop now!” 3 (Now the Lord’s angel was near the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.) |
| (0.27) | Est 9:1 |
| In the twelfth month (that is, the month of Adar), on its thirteenth day, the edict of the king and his law were to be executed. It was on this day that the enemies of the Jews had supposed that they would gain power over them. But contrary to expectations, the Jews gained power over their enemies. |
| (0.27) | Isa 50:2 |
| Why does no one challenge me when I come? Why does no one respond when I call? 1 Is my hand too weak 2 to deliver 3 you? Do I lack the power to rescue you? Look, with a mere shout 4 I can dry up the sea; I can turn streams into a desert, so the fish rot away and die from lack of water. 5 |
| (0.27) | Jer 2:24 |
| You are like a wild female donkey brought up in the wilderness. In her lust she sniffs the wind to get the scent of a male. 1 No one can hold her back when she is in heat. None of the males need wear themselves out chasing after her. At mating time she is easy to find. 2 |
| (0.27) | Jer 26:19 |
| King Hezekiah and all the people of Judah did not put him to death, did they? Did not Hezekiah show reverence for the Lord and seek the Lord’s favor? 1 Did not 2 the Lord forgo destroying them 3 as he threatened he would? But we are on the verge of bringing great disaster on ourselves.” 4 |
| (0.27) | Jer 29:14 |
| I will make myself available to you,’ 1 says the Lord. 2 ‘Then I will reverse your plight 3 and will regather you from all the nations and all the places where I have exiled you,’ says the Lord. 4 ‘I will bring you back to the place from which I exiled you.’ |
| (0.27) | Eze 33:11 |
| Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but prefer that the wicked change his behavior 1 and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil deeds! 2 Why should you die, O house of Israel?’ |
| (0.27) | Amo 1:11 |
| This is what the Lord says: “Because Edom has committed three crimes 1 – make that four! 2 – I will not revoke my decree of judgment. 3 He chased his brother 4 with a sword; he wiped out his allies. 5 In his anger he tore them apart without stopping to rest; 6 in his fury he relentlessly attacked them. 7 |
| (0.27) | Amo 2:4 |
| This is what the Lord says: “Because Judah has committed three covenant transgressions 1 – make that four! 2 – I will not revoke my decree of judgment. 3 They rejected the Lord’s law; 4 they did not obey his commands. Their false gods, 5 to which their fathers were loyal, 6 led them astray. |
| (0.22) | Jer 33:11 |
| Once again there will be sounds 1 of joy and gladness and the glad celebrations of brides and grooms. 2 Once again people will bring their thank offerings to the temple of the Lord and will say, “Give thanks to the Lord who rules over all. For the Lord is good and his unfailing love lasts forever.” 3 For I, the Lord, affirm 4 that I will restore the land to what it was 5 in days of old.’ 6 |
