Discovery Box| (0.10) | Hos 8:4 |
| They enthroned kings without my consent! 1 They appointed princes without my approval! 2 They made idols out of their silver and gold, but they will be destroyed! 3 |
| (0.10) | Hos 8:7 |
| They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up. |
| (0.10) | Hos 8:13 |
| They offer up sacrificial gifts to me, and eat the meat, but the Lord does not accept their sacrifices. 1 Soon he will remember their wrongdoing, he will punish their sins, and they will return to Egypt. |
| (0.10) | Hos 9:1 |
| O Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly 1 like the nations, for you are unfaithful 2 to your God. You love to receive a prostitute's wages 3 on all the floors where you thresh your grain. |
| (0.10) | Hos 9:6 |
| Look! 1 Even if 2 they flee from the destruction, Egypt will take hold 3 of them, and Memphis will bury them. The weeds will inherit the silver they treasure 4 – thorn bushes will occupy their homes. 5 |
| (0.10) | Hos 9:8 |
| The prophet 1 is a watchman 2 over Ephraim 3 on behalf of God, 4 yet traps 5 are laid for him along all of his paths; 6 animosity rages against him in the land 7 of his God. |
| (0.10) | Hos 10:5 |
| The inhabitants 1 of Samaria will lament 2 over the calf idol 3 of Beth Aven. 4 Its people will mourn over it; its idolatrous priests will wail 5 over it, 6 because its splendor will be taken from them 7 into exile. |
| (0.10) | Hos 11:8 |
| How can I give you up, 1 O Ephraim? How can I surrender you, O Israel? How can I treat you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? I have had a change of heart! 2 All my tender compassions are aroused! 3 |
| (0.10) | Hos 13:4 |
| But I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt. Therefore, you must not acknowledge any God but me; except me there is no Savior. |
| (0.10) | 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 |
| (0.10) | 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 |
| (0.10) | Hos 14:8 |
| O Ephraim, I do not want to have anything to do 1 with idols anymore! I will answer him and care for him. I am like 2 a luxuriant cypress tree; 3 your fruitfulness comes from me! 4 |
| (0.10) | Joe 1:12 |
| The vine has dried up; the fig tree languishes – the pomegranate, date, and apple 1 as well. In fact, 2 all the trees of the field have dried up. Indeed, the joy of the people 3 has dried up! |
| (0.10) | Joe 1:14 |
| Announce a holy fast; 1 proclaim a sacred assembly. Gather the elders and 2 all the inhabitants of the land to the temple of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord. |
| (0.10) | Joe 2:1 |
| Blow the trumpet 1 in Zion; sound the alarm signal on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land shake with fear, for the day of the Lord is about to come. Indeed, 2 it is near! 3 |
| (0.10) | Joe 2:14 |
| Who knows? Perhaps he will be compassionate and grant a reprieve, 1 and leave blessing in his wake 2 – a meal offering and a drink offering for you to offer to the Lord your God! 3 |
| (0.10) | 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. |
| (0.10) | Joe 3:16 |
| The Lord roars from Zion; from Jerusalem 1 his voice bellows out. 2 The heavens 3 and the earth shake. But the Lord is a refuge for his people; he is a stronghold for the citizens 4 of Israel. |
| (0.10) | 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 |
| (0.10) | 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 |
