Discovery Box| (1.00) | Amo 7:12 |
| Amaziah then said to Amos, “Leave, you visionary! 1 Run away to the land of Judah! Earn your living 2 and prophesy there! |
| (1.00) | Amo 7:16 |
| So now listen to the Lord’s message! You say, ‘Don’t prophesy against Israel! Don’t preach 1 against the family of Isaac!’ |
| (1.00) | Amo 8:3 |
| The women singing in the temple 1 will wail in that day.” The sovereign Lord is speaking. “There will be many corpses littered everywhere! 2 Be quiet!” |
| (1.00) | 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 |
| (1.00) | Amo 8:7 |
| The Lord confirms this oath 1 by the arrogance of Jacob: 2 “I swear 3 I will never forget all you have done! 4 |
| (1.00) | Amo 8:8 |
| Because of this the earth 1 will quake, 2 and all who live in it will mourn. The whole earth 3 will rise like the River Nile, 4 it will surge upward 5 and then grow calm, 6 like the Nile in Egypt. 7 |
| (1.00) | Amo 8:9 |
| In that day,” says the sovereign Lord, “I will make the sun set at noon, and make the earth dark in the middle of the day. 1 |
| (1.00) | Amo 8:10 |
| I will turn your festivals into funerals, 1 and all your songs into funeral dirges. I will make everyone wear funeral clothes 2 and cause every head to be shaved bald. 3 I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son; 4 when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day. 5 |
| (1.00) | Amo 8:11 |
| Be certain of this, 1 the time is 2 coming,” says the sovereign Lord, “when I will send a famine through the land – not a shortage of food or water but an end to divine revelation! 3 |
| (1.00) | Amo 8:12 |
| People 1 will stagger from sea to sea, 2 and from the north around to the east. They will wander about looking for a revelation from 3 the Lord, but they will not find any. 4 |
| (1.00) | Amo 8:13 |
| In that day your 1 beautiful young women 2 and your 3 young men will faint from thirst. 4 |
| (1.00) | Amo 8:14 |
| These are the ones who now take oaths 1 in the name of the sinful idol goddess 2 of Samaria. They vow, 3 ‘As surely as your god 4 lives, O Dan,’ or ‘As surely as your beloved one 5 lives, O Beer Sheba!’ But they will fall down and not get up again.” |
| (1.00) | 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 |
| (1.00) | 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 |
| (1.00) | Oba 1:1 |
| The vision 1 that Obadiah 2 saw. 3 The Lord God 4 says this concerning 5 Edom: 6 |
| (1.00) | Oba 1:4 |
| Even if you were to soar high like an eagle, 1 even if you 2 were to make your nest among the stars, I can bring you down even from there!” says the Lord. |
| (1.00) | Oba 1:7 |
| All your allies 1 will force 2 you from your homeland! 3 Your treaty partners 4 will deceive you and overpower you. Your trusted friends 5 will set an ambush 6 for 7 you that will take you by surprise! 8 |
| (1.00) | Oba 1:8 |
| At that time,” 1 the Lord says, “I will destroy the wise sages of Edom! 2 the advisers 3 from Esau’s mountain! 4 |
| (1.00) | Jon 1:1 |
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| (1.00) | Jon 1:8 |
| They said to him, “Tell us, whose fault is it that this disaster has overtaken us? 1 What’s your occupation? Where do you come from? What’s your country? And who are your people?” 2 |
