Discovery Box| (1.00) | Hab 2:13 |
| Be sure of this! The Lord who commands armies has decreed: The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke; their exhausting work will be for nothing. 1 |
| (1.00) | Hab 2:18 |
| What good 1 is an idol? Why would a craftsman make it? 2 What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles? 3 Why would its creator place his trust in it 4 and make 5 such mute, worthless things? |
| (1.00) | Hab 3:2 |
| Lord, I have heard the report of what you did; 1 I am awed, 2 Lord, by what you accomplished. 3 In our time 4 repeat those deeds; 5 in our time reveal them again. 6 But when you cause turmoil, remember to show us mercy! 7 |
| (1.00) | Hab 3:7 |
| I see the tents of Cushan overwhelmed by trouble; 1 the tent curtains of the land of Midian are shaking. 2 |
| (1.00) | Hab 3:9 |
| Your bow is ready for action; 1 you commission your arrows. 2 Selah. You cause flash floods on the earth’s surface. 3 |
| (1.00) | Hab 3:17 |
| When 1 the fig tree does not bud, and there are no grapes on the vines; when the olive trees do not produce, 2 and the fields yield no crops; 3 when the sheep disappear 4 from the pen, and there are no cattle in the stalls, |
| (1.00) | Zep 1:1 |
| This is the prophetic message that the Lord gave to 1 Zephaniah son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah. Zephaniah delivered this message during the reign of 2 King Josiah son of Amon of Judah: |
| (1.00) | Zep 1:3 |
| “I will destroy people and animals; I will destroy the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea. (The idolatrous images of these creatures will be destroyed along with evil people.) 1 I will remove 2 humanity from the face of the earth,” says the Lord. |
| (1.00) | Zep 1:4 |
| “I will attack 1 Judah and all who live in Jerusalem. 2 I will remove 3 from this place every trace of Baal worship, 4 as well as the very memory 5 of the pagan priests. 6 |
| (1.00) | Zep 1:5 |
| I will remove 1 those who worship the stars in the sky from their rooftops, 2 those who swear allegiance to the Lord 3 while taking oaths in the name of 4 their ‘king,’ 5 |
| (1.00) | Zep 1:6 |
| and those who turn their backs on 1 the Lord and do not want the Lord’s help or guidance.” 2 |
| (1.00) | Zep 1:9 |
| On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, 1 who fill the house of their master 2 with wealth taken by violence and deceit. 3 |
| (1.00) | Zep 1:18 |
| Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s angry judgment. The whole earth 1 will be consumed by his fiery wrath. 2 Indeed, 3 he will bring terrifying destruction 4 on all who live on the earth.” 5 |
| (1.00) | Zep 2:5 |
| Those who live by the sea, the people who came from Crete, 1 are as good as dead. 2 The Lord has decreed your downfall, 3 Canaan, land of the Philistines: “I will destroy everyone who lives there!” 4 |
| (1.00) | Zep 2:8 |
| “I have heard Moab’s taunts and the Ammonites’ insults. They 1 taunted my people and verbally harassed those living in Judah. 2 |
| (1.00) | Zep 2:11 |
| The Lord will terrify them, 1 for 2 he will weaken 3 all the gods of the earth. All the distant nations will worship the Lord in their own lands. 4 |
| (1.00) | Zep 2:14 |
| Flocks and herds 1 will lie down in the middle of it, as well as every kind of wild animal. 2 Owls 3 will sleep in the tops of its support pillars; they will hoot through the windows. 4 Rubble will cover the thresholds; 5 even the cedar work 6 will be exposed to the elements. 7 |
| (1.00) | 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 |
| (1.00) | Zep 3:4 |
| Her prophets are proud; 1 they are deceitful men. Her priests defile what is holy; 2 they break God’s laws. 3 |
| (1.00) | Zep 3:7 |
| I thought, 1 ‘Certainly you will respect 2 me! Now you will accept correction!’ If she had done so, her home 3 would not be destroyed 4 by all the punishments I have threatened. 5 But they eagerly sinned in everything they did. 6 |
