Discovery Box| (0.57) | Hos 1:6 |
| She conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. Then the Lord 1 said to him, “Name her ‘No Pity’ (Lo-Ruhamah) because I will no longer have pity 2 on the nation 3 of Israel. For 4 I will certainly not forgive 5 their guilt. 6 |
| (0.57) | Hos 2:15 |
| From there I will give back her vineyards to her, and turn the “Valley of Trouble” 1 into an “Opportunity 2 for Hope.” There she will sing as she did when she was young, 3 when 4 she came up from the land of Egypt. |
| (0.57) | Hos 2:23 |
| Then I will plant her as my own 1 in the land. I will have pity on ‘No Pity’ (Lo-Ruhamah). I will say to ‘Not My People’ (Lo-Ammi), ‘You are my people!’ And he 2 will say, ‘You are 3 my God!’” |
| (0.57) | Hos 9:7 |
| The time of judgment 1 is about to arrive! 2 The time of retribution 3 is imminent! 4 Let Israel know! 5 The prophet is considered a fool 6 – the inspired man 7 is viewed as a madman 8 – because of the multitude of your sins and your intense 9 animosity. |
| (0.57) | Hos 9:10 |
| When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness. I viewed your ancestors 1 like an early fig on a fig tree in its first season. Then they came to Baal-Peor and they dedicated themselves to shame – they became as detestable as what they loved. |
| (0.57) | Joe 2:23 |
| Citizens of Zion, 1 rejoice! Be glad because of what the Lord your God has done! 2 For he has given to you the early rains 3 as vindication. He has sent 4 to you the rains – both the early and the late rains 5 as formerly. |
| (0.57) | Joe 2:32 |
| It will so happen that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be delivered. 1 For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem 2 there will be those who survive, 3 just as the Lord has promised; the remnant 4 will be those whom the Lord will call. 5 |
| (0.57) | Joe 3:2 |
| Then I will gather all the nations, and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. 1 I will enter into judgment 2 against them there concerning my people Israel who are my inheritance, 3 whom they scattered among the nations. They partitioned my land, |
| (0.57) | Joe 3:18 |
| On that day 1 the mountains will drip with sweet wine, 2 and the hills will flow with milk. 3 All the dry stream beds 4 of Judah will flow with water. A spring will flow out from the temple 5 of the Lord, watering the Valley of Acacia Trees. 6 |
| (0.57) | Amo 1:1 |
| The following is a record of what Amos prophesied. 1 He 2 was one of the herdsmen from Tekoa. These prophecies about Israel were revealed to him 3 during the time of 4 King Uzziah of Judah and 5 King Jeroboam son of Joash of Israel, two years before the earthquake. 6 |
| (0.57) | Amo 3:9 |
| Make this announcement in 1 the fortresses of Ashdod and in the fortresses in the land of Egypt. Say this: “Gather on the hills around Samaria! 2 Observe the many acts of violence 3 taking place within the city, 4 the oppressive deeds 5 occurring in it.” 6 |
| (0.57) | Amo 3:12 |
| This is what the Lord says: “Just as a shepherd salvages from the lion’s mouth a couple of leg bones or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites who live in Samaria will be salvaged. 1 They will be left with just a corner of a bed, 2 and a part 3 of a couch.” |
| (0.57) | Amo 5:11 |
| Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops 1 and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine 2 vineyards you planted. 3 |
| (0.57) | 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. |
| (0.57) | 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 |
| (0.57) | 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.” |
| (0.57) | 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 |
| (0.57) | 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.” |
| (0.57) | Amo 9:3 |
| Even if they were to hide on the top of Mount Carmel, I would hunt them down and take them from there. Even if they tried to hide from me 1 at the bottom of the sea, from there 2 I would command the Sea Serpent 3 to bite them. |
| (0.57) | 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 |
