(0.14) | 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 |
(0.14) | Joe 2:3 | Like fire they devour everything in their path; 1 a flame blazes behind them. The land looks like the Garden of Eden 2 before them, but behind them there is only a desolate wilderness – for nothing escapes them! 3 |
(0.14) | Joe 2:13 | Return to the Lord your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and boundless in loyal love 1 – often relenting from calamitous punishment. 2 |
(0.14) | 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 |
(0.14) | 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 |
(0.14) | Amo 2:2 | So I will set Moab on fire, 1 and it will consume Kerioth’s 2 fortresses. Moab will perish 3 in the heat of battle 4 amid war cries and the blaring 5 of the ram’s horn. 6 |
(0.14) | 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 |
(0.14) | Amo 2:8 | They stretch out on clothing seized as collateral; they do so right 1 beside every altar! They drink wine bought with the fines they have levied; they do so right in the temple 2 of their God! 3 |
(0.14) | Amo 2:9 | For Israel’s sake I destroyed the Amorites. 1 They were as tall as cedars 2 and as strong as oaks, but I destroyed the fruit on their branches 3 and their roots in the ground. 4 |
(0.14) | Amo 4:2 | The sovereign Lord confirms this oath by his own holy character: 1 “Certainly the time is approaching 2 when you will be carried away 3 in baskets, 4 every last one of you 5 in fishermen’s pots. 6 |
(0.14) | Amo 4:5 | Burn a thank offering of bread made with yeast! 1 Make a public display of your voluntary offerings! 2 For you love to do this, you Israelites.” The sovereign Lord is speaking! |
(0.14) | Amo 6:2 | They say to the people: 1 “Journey over to Calneh and look at it! Then go from there to Hamath-Rabbah! 2 Then go down to Gath of the Philistines! Are they superior to our two 3 kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?” 4 |
(0.14) | Amo 9:4 | Even when their enemies drive them into captivity, 1 from there 2 I will command the sword to kill them. I will not let them out of my sight; they will experience disaster, not prosperity.” 3 |
(0.14) | Amo 9:14 | I will bring back my people, Israel; 1 they will rebuild the cities lying in rubble 2 and settle down. 3 They will plant vineyards and drink the wine they produce; 4 they will grow orchards 5 and eat the fruit they produce. 6 |
(0.14) | 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 |
(0.14) | 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. |
(0.14) | Jon 2:2 | and said, “I 1 called out to the Lord from my distress, and he answered me; 2 from the belly of Sheol 3 I cried out for help, and you heard my prayer. 4 |
(0.14) | Jon 3:3 | So Jonah went immediately to Nineveh, as the Lord had said. (Now Nineveh was an enormous city 1 – it required three days to walk through it!) 2 |
(0.14) | Mic 1:6 | “I will turn Samaria 1 into a heap of ruins in an open field – vineyards will be planted there! 2 I will tumble 3 the rubble of her stone walls 4 down into the valley, and tear down her fortifications to their foundations. 5 |
(0.14) | 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 |