Discovery Box| (0.51) | 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! |
| (0.51) | 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!” |
| (0.51) | 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! |
| (0.51) | 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. |
| (0.51) | Amo 6:2 |
| They say to the people: 1 “Journey over to Calneh and look at it! Then go from there to Hamath-Rabbah! 2 Then go down to Gath of the Philistines! Are they superior to our two 3 kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?” 4 |
| (0.51) | Amo 6:8 |
| The sovereign Lord confirms this oath by his very own life. 1 The Lord, the God who commands armies, is speaking: “I despise Jacob’s arrogance; I hate their 2 fortresses. I will hand over to their enemies 3 the city of Samaria 4 and everything in it.” |
| (0.51) | 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 |
| (0.51) | 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 |
| (0.51) | Jon 1:3 |
| Instead, Jonah immediately 1 headed off to Tarshish 2 to escape 3 from the commission of the Lord. 4 He traveled 5 to Joppa 6 and found a merchant ship heading 7 to Tarshish. 8 So he paid the fare 9 and went aboard |
| (0.51) | Mic 1:7 |
| All her carved idols will be smashed to pieces; all her metal cult statues will be destroyed by fire. 1 I will make a waste heap 2 of all her images. Since 3 she gathered the metal 4 as a prostitute collects her wages, the idols will become a prostitute’s wages again.” 5 |
| (0.51) | Mic 2:4 |
| In that day people will sing this taunt song to you – they will mock you with this lament: 1 ‘We are completely destroyed; they sell off 2 the property of my people. How they remove it from me! 3 They assign our fields to the conqueror.’ 4 |
| (0.51) | 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 |
| (0.51) | 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. |
| (0.51) | 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 |
| (0.51) | 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 |
| (0.51) | Mic 7:14 |
| Shepherd your people with your shepherd’s rod, 1 the flock that belongs to you, 2 the one that lives alone in a thicket, in the midst of a pastureland. 3 Allow them to graze in Bashan and Gilead, 4 as they did in the old days. 5 |
| (0.51) | 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.” |
| (0.51) | 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! |
| (0.51) | Hab 2:17 |
| For you will pay in full for your violent acts against Lebanon; 1 terrifying judgment will come upon you because of the way you destroyed the wild animals living there. 2 You have shed human blood and committed violent acts against lands, cities, and those who live in them. |
| (0.51) | Hab 3:16 |
| I listened and my stomach churned; 1 the sound made my lips quiver. My frame went limp, as if my bones were decaying, 2 and I shook as I tried to walk. 3 I long 4 for the day of distress to come upon 5 the people who attack us. |
