Discovery Box| (0.10) | Amo 2:6 |
| This is what the Lord says: “Because Israel has committed three covenant transgressions 1 – make that four! 2 – I will not revoke my decree of judgment. 3 They sold the innocent 4 for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals. 5 |
| (0.10) | Amo 3:9 |
| Make this announcement in 1 the fortresses of Ashdod and in the fortresses in the land of Egypt. Say this: “Gather on the hills around Samaria! 2 Observe the many acts of violence 3 taking place within the city, 4 the oppressive deeds 5 occurring in it.” 6 |
| (0.10) | Amo 3:14 |
| “Certainly when 1 I punish Israel for their 2 covenant transgressions, 3 I will destroy 4 Bethel’s 5 altars. The horns 6 of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground. |
| (0.10) | Amo 4:9 |
| “I destroyed your crops 1 with blight and disease. Locusts kept 2 devouring your orchards, 3 vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees. Still you did not come back to me.” The Lord is speaking! |
| (0.10) | Amo 5:12 |
| Certainly 1 I am aware of 2 your many rebellious acts 3 and your numerous sins. You 4 torment the innocent, you take bribes, and you deny justice to 5 the needy at the city gate. 6 |
| (0.10) | Amo 6:12 |
| Can horses run on rocky cliffs? Can one plow the sea with oxen? 1 Yet you have turned justice into a poisonous plant, and the fruit of righteous actions into a bitter plant. 2 |
| (0.10) | Amo 6:14 |
| “Look! I am about to bring 1 a nation against you, family 2 of Israel.” The Lord, the God who commands armies, is speaking. “They will oppress 3 you all the way from Lebo-Hamath 4 to the Stream of the Arabah.” 5 |
| (0.10) | Amo 7:1 |
| The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw 1 him making locusts just as the crops planted late 2 were beginning to sprout. (The crops planted late sprout after the royal harvest. 3 ) |
| (0.10) | Amo 8:5 |
| You say, “When will the new moon festival 1 be over, 2 so we can sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, 3 so we can open up the grain bins? 4 We’re eager 5 to sell less for a higher price, 6 and to cheat the buyer with rigged scales! 7 |
| (0.10) | Oba 1:5 |
| “If thieves came to rob you 1 during the night, 2 they would steal only as much as they wanted! 3 If grape pickers came to harvest your vineyards, 4 they would leave some behind for the poor! 5 But you will be totally destroyed! 6 |
| (0.10) | Oba 1:11 |
| You stood aloof 1 while strangers took his army 2 captive, and foreigners advanced to his gates. 3 When they cast lots 4 over Jerusalem, 5 you behaved as though you were in league 6 with them. |
| (0.10) | Oba 1:12 |
| You should not 1 have gloated 2 when your relatives 3 suffered calamity. 4 You should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah when they were destroyed. 5 You should not have boasted 6 when they suffered adversity. 7 |
| (0.10) | Oba 1:16 |
| For just as you 1 have drunk 2 on my holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. 3 They will drink, and they will gulp down; they will be as though they had never been. |
| (0.10) | Oba 1:20 |
| The exiles of this fortress 1 of the people of Israel will take possession 2 of what belongs to the people of Canaan, as far as Zarephath, 3 and the exiles of Jerusalem 4 who are in Sepharad 5 will take possession of the towns of the Negev. |
| (0.10) | Jon 2:6 |
| I went down 1 to the very bottoms 2 of the mountains; 3 the gates 4 of the netherworld 5 barred me in 6 forever; 7 but you brought me 8 up from the Pit, 9 O Lord, my God. |
| (0.10) | Jon 4:6 |
| The Lord God appointed 1 a little plant 2 and caused it to grow up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to rescue 3 him from his misery. 4 Now Jonah was very delighted 5 about the little plant. |
| (0.10) | Mic 2:11 |
| If a lying windbag should come and say, 1 ‘I’ll promise you blessings of wine and beer,’ 2 he would be just the right preacher for these people! 3 |
| (0.10) | Mic 4:4 |
| Each will sit under his own grapevine or under his own fig tree without any fear. 1 The Lord who commands armies has decreed it. 2 |
| (0.10) | Mic 4:9 |
| Jerusalem, why are you 1 now shouting so loudly? 2 Has your king disappeared? 3 Has your wise leader 4 been destroyed? Is this why 5 pain grips 6 you as if you were a woman in labor? |
| (0.10) | Mic 7:4 |
| The best of them is like a thorn; the most godly among them are more dangerous than a row of thorn bushes. 1 The day you try to avoid by posting watchmen – your appointed time of punishment – is on the way, 2 and then you will experience confusion. 3 |
