Discovery Box| (0.11) | Amo 5:16 |
| Because of Israel’s sins 1 this is what the Lord, the God who commands armies, the sovereign One, 2 says: “In all the squares there will be wailing, in all the streets they will mourn the dead. 3 They will tell the field workers 4 to lament and the professional mourners 5 to wail. |
| (0.11) | Amo 7:1 |
| The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw 1 him making locusts just as the crops planted late 2 were beginning to sprout. (The crops planted late sprout after the royal harvest. 3 ) |
| (0.11) | 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 |
| (0.11) | 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.” |
| (0.11) | 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 |
| (0.11) | Amo 9:7 |
| “You Israelites are just like the Ethiopians in my sight,” 1 says the Lord. “Certainly I brought Israel up from the land of Egypt, but I also brought the Philistines from Caphtor 2 and the Arameans from Kir. 3 |
| (0.11) | Oba 1:19 |
| The people of the Negev 1 will take possession 2 of Esau’s mountain, and the people of the Shephelah 3 will take possession 4 of the land of 5 the Philistines. They will also take possession of the territory of Ephraim and the territory of Samaria, and the people of Benjamin will take possession 6 of Gilead. 7 |
| (0.11) | 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. |
| (0.11) | 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 |
| (0.11) | Zep 1:18 |
| Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s angry judgment. The whole earth 1 will be consumed by his fiery wrath. 2 Indeed, 3 he will bring terrifying destruction 4 on all who live on the earth.” 5 |
| (0.11) | Zep 3:19 |
| Look, at that time I will deal with those who mistreated you. I will rescue the lame sheep 1 and gather together the scattered sheep. I will take away their humiliation and make the whole earth admire and respect them. 2 |
| (0.11) | Hag 1:11 |
| Moreover, I have called for a drought that will affect the fields, the hill country, the grain, new wine, fresh olive oil, and everything that grows from the ground; it also will harm people, animals, and everything they produce.’” 1 |
| (0.11) | Zec 3:9 |
| As for the stone 1 I have set before Joshua – on the one stone there are seven eyes. 2 I am about to engrave an inscription on it,’ says the Lord who rules over all, ‘to the effect that I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day. 3 |
| (0.11) | Zec 6:15 |
| Then those who are far away 1 will come and build the temple of the Lord so that you may know that the Lord who rules over all has sent me to you. This will all come to pass if you completely obey the voice of the Lord your God.”’” |
| (0.11) | Zec 9:7 |
| I will take away their abominable religious practices; 1 then those who survive will become a community of believers in our God, 2 like a clan in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites. |
| (0.11) | Zec 10:2 |
| For the household gods 1 have spoken wickedness, the soothsayers have seen a lie, and as for the dreamers, they have disclosed emptiness and give comfort in vain. Therefore the people set out like sheep and become scattered because they have no shepherd. 2 |
| (0.11) | Zec 10:6 |
| “I (says the Lord) will strengthen the kingdom 1 of Judah and deliver the people of Joseph 2 and will bring them back 3 because of my compassion for them. They will be as though I had never rejected them, for I am the Lord their God and therefore I will hear them. |
| (0.11) | Zec 11:5 |
| Those who buy them 1 slaughter them and are not held guilty; those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I am rich.’ Their own shepherds have no compassion for them. |
| (0.11) | Zec 11:6 |
| Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land,” says the Lord, “but instead I will turn every last person over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from them.” |
| (0.11) | Mal 1:2 |
| “I have shown love to you,” says the Lord, but you say, “How have you shown love to us?” “Esau was Jacob’s brother,” the Lord explains, “yet I chose Jacob |
