Discovery Box| (0.27) | Amo 6:2 |
| They say to the people: 1 “Journey over to Calneh and look at it! Then go from there to Hamath-Rabbah! 2 Then go down to Gath of the Philistines! Are they superior to our two 3 kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?” 4 |
| (0.27) | Amo 7:17 |
| “Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets 1 and your sons and daughters will die violently. 2 Your land will be given to others 3 and you will die in a foreign 4 land. Israel will certainly be carried into exile 5 away from its land.’” |
| (0.27) | Mic 1:5 |
| All this is because of Jacob’s rebellion and 1 the sins of the nation 2 of Israel. How has Jacob rebelled, you ask? 3 Samaria epitomizes their rebellion! 4 Where are Judah’s pagan worship centers, you ask? 5 They are right in Jerusalem! 6 |
| (0.27) | Mic 1:7 |
| All her carved idols will be smashed to pieces; all her metal cult statues will be destroyed by fire. 1 I will make a waste heap 2 of all her images. Since 3 she gathered the metal 4 as a prostitute collects her wages, the idols will become a prostitute’s wages again.” 5 |
| (0.27) | Mic 2:4 |
| In that day people will sing this taunt song to you – they will mock you with this lament: 1 ‘We are completely destroyed; they sell off 2 the property of my people. How they remove it from me! 3 They assign our fields to the conqueror.’ 4 |
| (0.27) | Mic 3:5 |
| This is what the Lord says: “The prophets who mislead my people are as good as dead. 1 If someone gives them enough to eat, they offer an oracle of peace. 2 But if someone does not give them food, they are ready to declare war on him. 3 |
| (0.27) | Mic 3:11 |
| Her 1 leaders take bribes when they decide legal cases, 2 her priests proclaim rulings for profit, and her prophets read omens for pay. Yet they claim to trust 3 the Lord and say, “The Lord is among us. 4 Disaster will not overtake 5 us!” |
| (0.27) | Mic 6:14 |
| You will eat, but not be satisfied. Even if you have the strength 1 to overtake some prey, 2 you will not be able to carry it away; 3 if you do happen to carry away something, I will deliver it over to the sword. |
| (0.27) | Mic 6:15 |
| You will plant crops, but will not harvest them; you will squeeze oil from the olives, 1 but you will have no oil to rub on your bodies; 2 you will squeeze juice from the grapes, but you will have no wine to drink. 3 |
| (0.27) | Mic 7:9 |
| I must endure 1 the Lord’s anger, for I have sinned against him. But then 2 he will defend my cause, 3 and accomplish justice on my behalf. He will lead me out into the light; I will experience firsthand 4 his deliverance. 5 |
| (0.27) | Hab 2:3 |
| For the message is a witness to what is decreed; 1 it gives reliable testimony about how matters will turn out. 2 Even if the message 3 is not fulfilled right away, wait patiently; 4 for it will certainly come to pass – it will not arrive late. |
| (0.27) | Hab 2:16 |
| But you will become drunk 1 with shame, not majesty. 2 Now it is your turn to drink and expose your uncircumcised foreskin! 3 The cup of wine in the Lord’s right hand 4 is coming to you, and disgrace will replace your majestic glory! |
| (0.27) | Hab 2:17 |
| For you will pay in full for your violent acts against Lebanon; 1 terrifying judgment will come upon you because of the way you destroyed the wild animals living there. 2 You have shed human blood and committed violent acts against lands, cities, and those who live in them. |
| (0.27) | Zep 2:15 |
| This is how the once-proud city will end up 1 – the city that was so secure. 2 She thought to herself, 3 “I am unique! No one can compare to me!” 4 What a heap of ruins she has become, a place where wild animals live! Everyone who passes by her taunts her 5 and shakes his fist. 6 |
| (0.27) | Zec 1:6 |
| But have my words and statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, not outlived your fathers? 1 Then they paid attention 2 and confessed, ‘The Lord who rules over all has indeed done what he said he would do to us, because of our sinful ways.’” |
| (0.27) | Zec 6:13 |
| Indeed, he will build the temple of the Lord, and he will be clothed in splendor, sitting as king on his throne. Moreover, there will be a priest 1 with him on his throne and they will see eye to eye on everything. |
| (0.27) | Zec 8:23 |
| The Lord who rules over all says, ‘In those days ten people from all languages and nations will grasp hold of – indeed, grab – the robe of one Jew and say, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.”’” 1 |
| (0.27) | Zec 13:3 |
| Then, if anyone prophesies in spite of this, his father and mother to whom he was born will say to him, ‘You cannot live, for you lie in the name of the Lord.’ Then his father and mother to whom he was born will run him through with a sword when he prophesies. 1 |
| (0.27) | Mal 1:8 |
| For when you offer blind animals as a sacrifice, is that not wrong? And when you offer the lame and sick, 1 is that not wrong as well? Indeed, try offering them 2 to your governor! Will he be pleased with you 3 or show you favor?” asks the Lord who rules over all. |
| (0.27) | Mal 1:10 |
| “I wish that one of you would close the temple doors, 1 so that you no longer would light useless fires on my altar. I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord who rules over all, “and I will no longer accept an offering from you. |
