Discovery Box| (1.00) | Hos 12:12 |
| Jacob fled to the country of Aram, then Israel worked 1 to acquire a wife; he tended sheep to pay for her. |
| (1.00) | Hos 13:1 |
| When Ephraim 1 spoke, 2 there was terror; 3 he was exalted 4 in Israel, but he became guilty by worshiping Baal and died. |
| (1.00) | Hos 13:2 |
| Even now they persist in sin! 1 They make metal images for themselves, idols that they skillfully fashion 2 from their own silver; all of them are nothing but the work of craftsmen! There is a saying about them: 3 “Those who sacrifice 4 to the calf idol are calf kissers!” 5 |
| (1.00) | Hos 14:2 |
| Return to the Lord and repent! 1 Say to him: “Completely 2 forgive our iniquity; accept 3 our penitential prayer, 4 that we may offer the praise of our lips as sacrificial bulls. 5 |
| (1.00) | Hos 14:3 |
| Assyria cannot save us; we will not ride warhorses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods’ to what our own hands have made. For only you will show compassion to Orphan Israel!” 1 |
| (1.00) | Joe 1:1 |
| This 1 is the Lord’s message 2 that was given 3 to Joel 4 the son of Pethuel: |
| (1.00) | Joe 1:4 |
| What the gazam-locust left the ‘arbeh-locust consumed, 1 what the ‘arbeh-locust left the yeleq-locust consumed, and what the yeleq-locust left the hasil-locust consumed! 2 |
| (1.00) | Joe 1:9 |
| No one brings grain offerings or drink offerings to the temple 1 of the Lord anymore. 2 So the priests, those who serve the Lord, are in mourning. |
| (1.00) | Joe 1:11 |
| Be distressed, 1 farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the field has perished. |
| (1.00) | Joe 1:13 |
| Get dressed 1 and lament, you priests! Wail, you who minister at the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you servants of my God, because no one brings grain offerings or drink offerings to the temple of your God anymore. 2 |
| (1.00) | Joe 1:17 |
| The grains of seed 1 have shriveled beneath their shovels. 2 Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up. |
| (1.00) | Joe 2:11 |
| The voice of the Lord thunders 1 as he leads his army. 2 Indeed, his warriors 3 are innumerable; 4 Surely his command is carried out! 5 Yes, the day of the Lord is awesome 6 and very terrifying – who can survive 7 it? |
| (1.00) | Joe 2:23 |
| Citizens of Zion, 1 rejoice! Be glad because of what the Lord your God has done! 2 For he has given to you the early rains 3 as vindication. He has sent 4 to you the rains – both the early and the late rains 5 as formerly. |
| (1.00) | Joe 2:25 |
| I will make up for the years 1 that the ‘arbeh-locust 2 consumed your crops 3 – the yeleq-locust, the hasil-locust, and the gazam-locust – my great army 4 that I sent against you. |
| (1.00) | Joe 2:26 |
| You will have plenty to eat, and your hunger will be fully satisfied; 1 you will praise the name of the Lord your God, who has acted wondrously in your behalf. My people will never again be put to shame. |
| (1.00) | Joe 3:2 |
| Then I will gather all the nations, and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. 1 I will enter into judgment 2 against them there concerning my people Israel who are my inheritance, 3 whom they scattered among the nations. They partitioned my land, |
| (1.00) | Joe 3:13 |
| Rush forth with 1 the sickle, for the harvest is ripe! Come, stomp the grapes, 2 for the winepress is full! The vats overflow. Indeed, their evil is great! 3 |
| (1.00) | Amo 1:1 |
| The following is a record of what Amos prophesied. 1 He 2 was one of the herdsmen from Tekoa. These prophecies about Israel were revealed to him 3 during the time of 4 King Uzziah of Judah and 5 King Jeroboam son of Joash of Israel, two years before the earthquake. 6 |
| (1.00) | Amo 1:3 |
| This is what the Lord says: “Because Damascus has committed three crimes 1 – make that four! 2 – I will not revoke my decree of judgment. 3 They ripped through Gilead like threshing sledges with iron teeth. 4 |
| (1.00) | 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. |
