Discovery Box| (1.00) | Nah 1:11 |
| From you, O Nineveh, 1 one has marched forth who plots evil against the Lord, a wicked military strategist. 2 |
| (1.00) | Nah 1:12 |
| This is what the Lord says: 1 “Even though 2 they are powerful 3 – and what is more, 4 even though their army is numerous 5 – nevertheless, 6 they will be destroyed 7 and trickle away! 8 Although I afflicted you, I will afflict you no more. 9 |
| (1.00) | Nah 1:14 |
| The Lord has issued a decree against you: 1 “Your dynasty will come to an end. 2 I will destroy the idols and images in the temples of your gods. I will desecrate 3 your grave – because you are accursed!” 4 |
| (1.00) | Nah 1:15 |
| (2:1) 1 Look! A herald is running 2 on the mountains! A messenger is proclaiming deliverance: 3 “Celebrate your sacred festivals, O Judah! Fulfill your sacred vows to praise God! 4 For never again 5 will the wicked 6 Assyrians 7 invade 8 you, they 9 have been completely destroyed.” |
| (1.00) | Nah 2:5 |
| The commander 1 orders 2 his officers; they stumble 3 as they advance; 4 they rush to the city wall 5 and they set up 6 the covered siege tower. 7 |
| (1.00) | Nah 2:13 |
| “I am against you!” declares 1 the Lord who commands armies: 2 “I will burn your chariots 3 with fire; 4 the sword will devour your young lions; 5 you will no longer prey upon the land; 6 the voices of your messengers 7 will no longer be heard.” |
| (1.00) | Nah 3:4 |
| “Because 1 you have acted like a wanton prostitute 2 – a seductive mistress who practices sorcery, 3 who 4 enslaves 5 nations by her harlotry, 6 and entices peoples by her sorcery 7 – |
| (1.00) | Nah 3:5 |
| I am against you,” declares the Lord who commands armies. 1 “I will strip off your clothes! 2 I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms; |
| (1.00) | Nah 3:6 |
| I will pelt you with filth; 1 I will treat you with contempt; I will make you a public spectacle. |
| (1.00) | Nah 3:14 |
| Draw yourselves water for a siege! 1 Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud 2 and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls! 3 |
| (1.00) | Nah 3:15 |
| There the fire will consume 1 you; the sword will cut you down; it will devour 2 you like the young locust would.Multiply yourself 3 like the young locust; multiply yourself like the flying locust! |
| (1.00) | Nah 3:19 |
| Your destruction is like an incurable wound; 1 your demise is like a fatal injury! 2 All who hear what has happened to you 3 will clap their hands for joy, 4 for no one ever escaped your endless cruelty! 5 |
| (1.00) | Hab 1:1 |
| The following is the message 1 which God revealed to Habakkuk the prophet: 2 |
| (1.00) | Hab 1:5 |
| “Look at the nations and pay attention! 1 You will be shocked and amazed! 2 For I will do something in your lifetime 3 that you will not believe even though you are forewarned. 4 |
| (1.00) | Hab 1:6 |
| Look, I am about to empower 1 the Babylonians, that ruthless 2 and greedy 3 nation. They sweep across the surface 4 of the earth, seizing dwelling places that do not belong to them. |
| (1.00) | Hab 1:12 |
| Lord, you have been active from ancient times; 1 my sovereign God, 2 you are immortal. 3 Lord, you have made them 4 your instrument of judgment. 5 Protector, 6 you have appointed them as your instrument of punishment. 7 |
| (1.00) | Hab 1:14 |
| You made people like fish in the sea, like animals in the sea 1 that have no ruler. |
| (1.00) | Hab 1:16 |
| Because of his success 1 he offers sacrifices to his throw net and burns incense to his dragnet; 2 for because of them he has plenty of food, 3 and more than enough to eat. 4 |
| (1.00) | Hab 2:1 |
| I will stand at my watch post; I will remain stationed on the city wall. 1 I will keep watching, so I can see what he says to me and can know 2 how I should answer when he counters my argument. 3 |
| (1.00) | Hab 2:6 |
| “But all these nations will someday taunt him 1 and ridicule him with proverbial sayings: 2 ‘The one who accumulates what does not belong to him is as good as dead 3 (How long will this go on?) 4 – he who gets rich by extortion!’ 5 |
