Discovery Box| (0.18) | Ezr 6:11 |
| “I hereby give orders that if anyone changes this directive a beam is to be pulled out from his house and he is to be raised up and impaled 1 on it, and his house is to be reduced 2 to a rubbish heap 3 for this indiscretion. 4 |
| (0.18) | Est 7:7 |
| In rage the king arose from the banquet of wine and withdrew to the palace garden. Meanwhile, Haman stood to beg Queen Esther for his life, 1 for he realized that the king had now determined a catastrophic end for him. 2 |
| (0.18) | Est 8:7 |
| King Ahasuerus replied to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Look, I have already given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he has been hanged on the gallows because he took hostile action 1 against the Jews. |
| (0.18) | Isa 6:5 |
| I said, “Too bad for me! I am destroyed, 1 for my lips are contaminated by sin, 2 and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. 3 My eyes have seen the king, the Lord who commands armies.” 4 |
| (0.18) | Isa 6:13 |
| Even if only a tenth of the people remain in the land, it will again be destroyed, 1 like one of the large sacred trees 2 or an Asherah pole, when a sacred pillar on a high place is thrown down. 3 That sacred pillar symbolizes the special chosen family.” 4 |
| (0.18) | Isa 11:4 |
| He will treat the poor fairly, 1 and make right decisions 2 for the downtrodden of the earth. 3 He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, 4 and order the wicked to be executed. 5 |
| (0.18) | Isa 14:29 |
| Don’t be so happy, all you Philistines, just because the club that beat you has been broken! 1 For a viper will grow out of the serpent’s root, and its fruit will be a darting adder. 2 |
| (0.18) | Isa 28:21 |
| For the Lord will rise up, as he did at Mount Perazim, 1 he will rouse himself, as he did in the Valley of Gibeon, 2 to accomplish his work, his peculiar work, to perform his task, his strange task. 3 |
| (0.18) | Isa 30:22 |
| You will desecrate your silver-plated idols 1 and your gold-plated images. 2 You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag, saying to them, “Get out!” |
| (0.18) | Isa 35:4 |
| Tell those who panic, 1 “Be strong! Do not fear! Look, your God comes to avenge! With divine retribution he comes to deliver you.” 2 |
| (0.18) | Isa 42:14 |
| “I have been inactive 1 for a long time; I kept quiet and held back. Like a woman in labor I groan; I pant and gasp. 2 |
| (0.18) | Isa 42:25 |
| So he poured out his fierce anger on them, along with the devastation 1 of war. Its flames encircled them, but they did not realize it; 2 it burned against them, but they did notice. 3 |
| (0.18) | Isa 48:14 |
| All of you, gather together and listen! Who among them 1 announced these things? The Lord’s ally 2 will carry out his desire against Babylon; he will exert his power against the Babylonians. 3 |
| (0.18) | Isa 54:9 |
| “As far as I am concerned, this is like in Noah’s time, 1 when I vowed that the waters of Noah’s flood 2 would never again cover the earth. In the same way I have vowed that I will not be angry at you or shout at you. |
| (0.18) | Isa 66:17 |
| “As for those who consecrate and ritually purify themselves so they can follow their leader and worship in the sacred orchards, 1 those who eat the flesh of pigs and other disgusting creatures, like mice 2 – they will all be destroyed together,” 3 says the Lord. |
| (0.18) | Jer 5:1 |
| The Lord said, 1 “Go up and down 2 through the streets of Jerusalem. 3 Look around and see for yourselves. Search through its public squares. See if any of you can find a single person who deals honestly and tries to be truthful. 4 If you can, 5 then I will not punish this city. 6 |
| (0.18) | Jer 6:1 |
| “Run for safety, people of Benjamin! Get out of Jerusalem! 1 Sound the trumpet 2 in Tekoa! Light the signal fires at Beth Hakkerem! For disaster lurks 3 out of the north; it will bring great destruction. 4 |
| (0.18) | Jer 6:23 |
| Its soldiers are armed with bows and spears. They are cruel and show no mercy. They sound like the roaring sea as they ride forth on their horses. Lined up in formation like men going into battle to attack you, Daughter Zion.’” 1 |
| (0.18) | Jer 11:17 |
| For though I, the Lord who rules over all, 1 planted you in the land, 2 I now decree that disaster will come on you 3 because the nations of Israel and Judah have done evil and have made me angry by offering sacrifices to the god Baal.” 4 |
| (0.18) | Jer 12:9 |
| The people I call my own attack me like birds of prey or like hyenas. 1 But other birds of prey are all around them. 2 Let all the nations gather together like wild beasts. Let them come and destroy these people I call my own. 3 |
