Discovery Box| (0.15) | Hos 4:1 |
| Hear the word of the Lord, you Israelites! 1 For the Lord has a covenant lawsuit 2 against the people of Israel. 3 For there is neither faithfulness nor loyalty in the land, nor do they acknowledge God. 4 |
| (0.15) | Hos 4:13 |
| They sacrifice on the mountaintops, and burn offerings on the hills; they sacrifice 1 under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is so pleasant. As a result, your daughters have become cult prostitutes, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery! |
| (0.15) | Hos 4:15 |
| Although you, O Israel, commit adultery, do not let Judah become guilty! Do not journey to Gilgal! Do not go up to Beth Aven! 1 Do not swear, “As surely as the Lord lives!” |
| (0.15) | Hos 5:1 |
| Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, you Israelites! 1 Listen closely, 2 O king! 3 For judgment is about to overtake you! 4 For you were like a trap 5 to Mizpah, 6 like a net 7 spread out to catch Tabor. 8 |
| (0.15) | Hos 5:13 |
| When Ephraim saw 1 his sickness and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim turned 2 to Assyria, and begged 3 its great king 4 for help. But he will not be able to heal you! He cannot cure your wound! 5 |
| (0.15) | Hos 6:3 |
| So let us acknowledge him! 1 Let us seek 2 to acknowledge 3 the Lord! He will come to our rescue as certainly as the appearance of the dawn, as certainly as the winter rain comes, as certainly as the spring rain that waters the land.” |
| (0.15) | Hos 7:6 |
| They approach him, all the while plotting against him. Their hearts are like an oven; their anger smolders all night long, but in the morning it bursts into a flaming fire. |
| (0.15) | Hos 12:4 |
| He struggled 1 with an angel and prevailed; he wept and begged for his favor. He found God 2 at Bethel, 3 and there he spoke with him! 4 |
| (0.15) | Hos 13:13 |
| The labor pains of a woman will overtake him, but the baby will lack wisdom; when the time arrives, he will not come out of the womb! |
| (0.15) | 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 |
| (0.15) | Joe 1:13 |
| Get dressed 1 and lament, you priests! Wail, you who minister at the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you servants of my God, because no one brings grain offerings or drink offerings to the temple of your God anymore. 2 |
| (0.15) | 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 |
| (0.15) | 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 |
| (0.15) | Joe 2:16 |
| Gather the people; sanctify an assembly! Gather the elders; gather the children and the nursing infants. Let the bridegroom come out from his bedroom and the bride from her private quarters. 1 |
| (0.15) | Joe 3:13 |
| Rush forth with 1 the sickle, for the harvest is ripe! Come, stomp the grapes, 2 for the winepress is full! The vats overflow. Indeed, their evil is great! 3 |
| (0.15) | Joe 3:19 |
| Egypt will be desolate and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, because of the violence they did to the people of Judah, 1 in whose land they shed innocent blood. |
| (0.15) | 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 |
| (0.15) | Amo 4:8 |
| People from 1 two or three cities staggered into one city to get 2 water, but remained thirsty. 3 Still you did not come back to me.” The Lord is speaking! |
| (0.15) | 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 |
| (0.15) | 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 |
