Discovery Box| (0.12) | 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! |
| (0.12) | Amo 4:11 |
| “I overthrew some of you the way God 1 overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 2 You were like a burning stick 3 snatched from the flames. Still you did not come back to me.” The Lord is speaking! |
| (0.12) | 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 |
| (0.12) | Amo 7:10 |
| Amaziah the priest of Bethel 1 sent this message 2 to King Jeroboam of Israel: “Amos is conspiring against you in the very heart of the kingdom of Israel! 3 The land cannot endure all his prophecies. 4 |
| (0.12) | 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 |
| (0.12) | Amo 9:5 |
| The sovereign Lord who commands armies will do this. 1 He touches the earth and it dissolves; 2 all who live on it mourn. The whole earth 3 rises like the River Nile, 4 and then grows calm 5 like the Nile in Egypt. 6 |
| (0.12) | Oba 1:3 |
| Your presumptuous heart 1 has deceived you – you who reside in the safety of the rocky cliffs, 2 whose home is high in the mountains. 3 You think to yourself, 4 ‘No one can 5 bring me down to the ground!’ 6 |
| (0.12) | Jon 1:10 |
| Hearing this, 1 the men became even more afraid 2 and said to him, “What have you done?” (The men said this because they knew that he was trying to escape 3 from the Lord, 4 because he had previously told them. 5 ) |
| (0.12) | Jon 3:10 |
| When God saw their actions – they turned 1 from their evil way of living! 2 – God relented concerning the judgment 3 he had threatened them with 4 and he did not destroy them. 5 |
| (0.12) | Mic 1:1 |
| This is the prophetic message that the Lord gave to 1 Micah of Moresheth. He delivered this message 2 during the reigns of 3 Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. The prophecies pertain to 4 Samaria 5 and Jerusalem. 6 |
| (0.12) | Mic 2:3 |
| Therefore the Lord says this: “Look, I am devising disaster for this nation! 1 It will be like a yoke from which you cannot free your neck. 2 You will no longer 3 walk proudly, for it will be a time of catastrophe. |
| (0.12) | Mic 2:7 |
| Does the family 1 of Jacob say, 2 ‘The Lord’s patience 3 can’t be exhausted – he would never do such things’? 4 To be sure, my commands bring a reward for those who obey them, 5 |
| (0.12) | 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 |
| (0.12) | Mic 3:3 |
| You 1 devour my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot 2 – like meat in a kettle. |
| (0.12) | Mic 3:8 |
| But I 1 am full of the courage that the Lord’s Spirit gives, and have a strong commitment to justice. 2 This enables me to confront Jacob with its rebellion, and Israel with its sin. 3 |
| (0.12) | 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? |
| (0.12) | Mic 5:2 |
| (5:1) As for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, 1 seemingly insignificant 2 among the clans of Judah – from you a king will emerge who will rule over Israel on my behalf, 3 one whose origins 4 are in the distant past. 5 |
| (0.12) | Mic 5:5 |
| He will give us peace. 1 Should the Assyrians try to invade our land and attempt to set foot in our fortresses, 2 we will send 3 against them seven 4 shepherd-rulers, 5 make that eight commanders. 6 |
| (0.12) | Mic 6:5 |
| My people, recall how King Balak of Moab planned to harm you, 1 how Balaam son of Beor responded to him. Recall how you journeyed from Shittim to Gilgal, so you might acknowledge that the Lord has treated you fairly.” 2 |
| (0.12) | Mic 7:3 |
| They are determined to be experts at doing evil; 1 government officials and judges take bribes, 2 prominent men make demands, and they all do what is necessary to satisfy them. 3 |
