Discovery Box| (1.00) | Hos 10:11 |
| Ephraim was a well-trained heifer who loved to thresh grain; I myself put a fine yoke 1 on her neck. I will harness Ephraim. Let Judah plow! 2 Let Jacob break up 3 the unplowed ground for himself! |
| (1.00) | Hos 11:2 |
| But the more I summoned 1 them, the farther they departed from me. 2 They sacrificed to the Baal idols and burned incense to images. |
| (1.00) | Hos 11:11 |
| They will return in fear and trembling 1 like birds from Egypt, like doves from Assyria, and I will settle them in their homes,” declares the Lord. |
| (1.00) | Hos 11:12 |
| (12:1) 1 Ephraim has surrounded me with lies; the house of Israel has surrounded me 2 with deceit. But Judah still roams about with 3 God; he remains faithful to the Holy One. |
| (1.00) | 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 |
| (1.00) | Hos 12:8 |
| Ephraim boasts, 1 “I am very rich! I have become wealthy! 2 In all that I have done to gain my wealth, 3 no one can accuse me of any offense 4 that is actually sinful.” 5 |
| (1.00) | Hos 12:9 |
| “I am the Lord your God 1 who brought you 2 out of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again as in the days of old. 3 |
| (1.00) | Hos 12:10 |
| I spoke to the prophets; I myself revealed many visions; 1 I spoke in parables 2 through 3 the prophets.” |
| (1.00) | Hos 12:11 |
| Is there idolatry 1 in Gilead? 2 Certainly its inhabitants 3 will come to nothing! 4 Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Surely their altars will be like stones heaped up on a plowed field! |
| (1.00) | Hos 12:12 |
| Jacob fled to the country of Aram, then Israel worked 1 to acquire a wife; he tended sheep to pay for her. |
| (1.00) | Hos 13:1 |
| When Ephraim 1 spoke, 2 there was terror; 3 he was exalted 4 in Israel, but he became guilty by worshiping Baal and died. |
| (1.00) | Hos 13:2 |
| Even now they persist in sin! 1 They make metal images for themselves, idols that they skillfully fashion 2 from their own silver; all of them are nothing but the work of craftsmen! There is a saying about them: 3 “Those who sacrifice 4 to the calf idol are calf kissers!” 5 |
| (1.00) | 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 |
| (1.00) | 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 |
| (1.00) | Joe 1:1 |
| This 1 is the Lord’s message 2 that was given 3 to Joel 4 the son of Pethuel: |
| (1.00) | Joe 1:4 |
| What the gazam-locust left the ‘arbeh-locust consumed, 1 what the ‘arbeh-locust left the yeleq-locust consumed, and what the yeleq-locust left the hasil-locust consumed! 2 |
| (1.00) | Joe 1:9 |
| No one brings grain offerings or drink offerings to the temple 1 of the Lord anymore. 2 So the priests, those who serve the Lord, are in mourning. |
| (1.00) | Joe 1:11 |
| Be distressed, 1 farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the field has perished. |
| (1.00) | 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 |
| (1.00) | Joe 2:11 |
| The voice of the Lord thunders 1 as he leads his army. 2 Indeed, his warriors 3 are innumerable; 4 Surely his command is carried out! 5 Yes, the day of the Lord is awesome 6 and very terrifying – who can survive 7 it? |
