Discovery Box| (0.25) | Amo 4:10 |
| “I sent against you a plague like one of the Egyptian plagues. 1 I killed your young men with the sword, along with the horses you had captured. I made the stench from the corpses 2 rise up into your nostrils. Still you did not come back to me.” The Lord is speaking! |
| (0.25) | Amo 4:13 |
| For here he is! He 1 formed the mountains and created the wind. He reveals 2 his plans 3 to men. He turns the dawn into darkness 4 and marches on the heights of the earth. The Lord, the God who commands armies, 5 is his name!” |
| (0.25) | Amo 5:8 |
| (But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion; he can turn the darkness into morning and daylight 1 into night. He summons the water of the seas and pours it out on the earth’s surface. The Lord is his name! |
| (0.25) | 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. |
| (0.25) | Amo 6:10 |
| When their close relatives, the ones who will burn the corpses, 1 pick up their bodies to remove the bones from the house, they will say to anyone who is in the inner rooms of the house, “Is anyone else with you?” He will respond, “Be quiet! Don’t invoke the Lord’s name!” 2 |
| (0.25) | Amo 7:17 |
| “Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets 1 and your sons and daughters will die violently. 2 Your land will be given to others 3 and you will die in a foreign 4 land. Israel will certainly be carried into exile 5 away from its land.’” |
| (0.25) | Amo 9:13 |
| “Be sure of this, 1 the time is 2 coming,” says the Lord, “when the plowman will catch up to the reaper 3 and the one who stomps the grapes 4 will overtake 5 the planter. 6 Juice will run down the slopes, 7 it will flow down all the hillsides. 8 |
| (0.25) | Oba 1:18 |
| The descendants of Jacob will be a fire, and the descendants of Joseph a flame. The descendants of Esau will be like stubble. They will burn them up and devour them. There will not be a single survivor 1 of the descendants of Esau!” Indeed, the Lord has spoken it. |
| (0.25) | Mic 3:5 |
| This is what the Lord says: “The prophets who mislead my people are as good as dead. 1 If someone gives them enough to eat, they offer an oracle of peace. 2 But if someone does not give them food, they are ready to declare war on him. 3 |
| (0.25) | Mic 4:10 |
| Twist and strain, 1 Daughter Zion, as if you were in labor! For you will leave the city and live in the open field. You will go to Babylon, but there you will be rescued. There the Lord will deliver 2 you from the power 3 of your enemies. |
| (0.25) | Mic 4:13 |
| “Get up and thresh, Daughter Zion! For I will give you iron horns; 1 I will give you bronze hooves, and you will crush many nations.” 2 You will devote to the Lord the spoils you take from them, and dedicate their wealth to the sovereign Ruler 3 of the whole earth. 4 |
| (0.25) | Mic 5:3 |
| So the Lord 1 will hand the people of Israel 2 over to their enemies 3 until the time when the woman in labor 4 gives birth. 5 Then the rest of the king’s 6 countrymen will return to be reunited with the people of Israel. 7 |
| (0.25) | Mic 5:7 |
| Those survivors from 1 Jacob will live 2 in the midst of many nations. 3 They will be like the dew the Lord sends, like the rain on the grass, that does not hope for men to come or wait around for humans to arrive. 4 |
| (0.25) | Mic 7:9 |
| I must endure 1 the Lord’s anger, for I have sinned against him. But then 2 he will defend my cause, 3 and accomplish justice on my behalf. He will lead me out into the light; I will experience firsthand 4 his deliverance. 5 |
| (0.25) | Nah 2:13 |
| “I am against you!” declares 1 the Lord who commands armies: 2 “I will burn your chariots 3 with fire; 4 the sword will devour your young lions; 5 you will no longer prey upon the land; 6 the voices of your messengers 7 will no longer be heard.” |
| (0.25) | Hab 2:16 |
| But you will become drunk 1 with shame, not majesty. 2 Now it is your turn to drink and expose your uncircumcised foreskin! 3 The cup of wine in the Lord’s right hand 4 is coming to you, and disgrace will replace your majestic glory! |
| (0.25) | Zep 1:3 |
| “I will destroy people and animals; I will destroy the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea. (The idolatrous images of these creatures will be destroyed along with evil people.) 1 I will remove 2 humanity from the face of the earth,” says the Lord. |
| (0.25) | 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 |
| (0.25) | Zep 2:7 |
| Those who are left from the kingdom of Judah 1 will take possession of it. 2 By the sea 3 they 4 will graze, in the houses of Ashkelon they will lie down in the evening, for the Lord their God will intervene for them 5 and restore their prosperity. 6 |
| (0.25) | Zep 3:8 |
| Therefore you must wait patiently 1 for me,” says the Lord, “for the day when I attack and take plunder. 2 I have decided 3 to gather nations together and assemble kingdoms, so I can pour out my fury on them – all my raging anger. For 4 the whole earth will be consumed by my fiery anger. |
