Discovery Box| (0.33335767132867) | Amo 2:4 |
| <p class="poetry">This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">“Because Judah has committed three covenant transgressions<n id="1" /> –p> <p class="poetry">make that four!<n id="2" /> – I will not revoke my decree of judgment.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They rejected the <sc>Lordsc>’s law;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">they did not obey his commands.p> <p class="poetry">Their false gods,<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">to which their fathers were loyal,<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">led them astray.p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | Amo 2:7 |
| <p class="poetry">They trample<n id="1" /> on the dirt-covered heads of the poor;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">they push the destitute away.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">A man and his father go to the same girl;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">in this way they show disrespect<n id="5" /> for my moral purity.<n id="6" />p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | Amo 4:7 |
| <p class="poetry">“I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I gave rain to one city, but not to another.p> <p class="poetry">One field<n id="2" /> would get rain, but the field that received no rain dried up.p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | Amo 5:11 |
| <p class="poetry">Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and exact a grain tax from them,p> <p class="poetry">you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone,p> <p class="poetry">nor will you drink the wine from the fine<n id="2" /> vineyards you planted.<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | Amo 7:10 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">Amaziah the priest of Bethel<n id="1" /> sent this message<n id="2" /> to King Jeroboam of Israel: “Amos is conspiring against you in the very heart of the kingdom of Israel!<n id="3" /> The land cannot endure all his prophecies.<n id="4" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | Amo 8:11 |
| <p class="poetry">Be certain of this,<n id="1" /> the time is<n id="2" /> coming,” says the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">“when I will send a famine through the land –p> <p class="poetry">not a shortage of food or waterp> <p class="poetry">but an end to divine revelation!<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | Amo 9:1 |
| <p class="poetry">I saw the sovereign One<n id="1" /> standing by the altar<n id="2" /> and he said, “Strike the tops of the support pillars,<n id="3" /> so the thresholds shake!p> <p class="poetry">Knock them down on the heads of all the people,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and I will kill the survivors<n id="5" /> with the sword.p> <p class="poetry">No one will be able to run away;<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">no one will be able to escape.<n id="7" />p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | Amo 9:7 |
| <p class="poetry">“You Israelites are just like the Ethiopians in my sight,”<n id="1" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>.p> <p class="poetry">“Certainly I brought Israel up from the land of Egypt,p> <p class="poetry">but I also brought the Philistines from Caphtor<n id="2" /> and the Arameans from Kir.<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | Amo 9:8 |
| <p class="poetry">Look, the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> is watching<n id="1" /> the sinful nation,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and I will destroy it from the face of the earth.p> <p class="poetry">But I will not completely destroy the family<n id="3" /> of Jacob,” says the <sc>Lordsc>.p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | Jon 1:5 |
| The sailors were so afraid that each cried out<n id="1" /> to his own god<n id="2" /> and they flung<n id="3" /> the ship’s cargo<n id="4" /> overboard<n id="5" /> to make the ship lighter.<n id="6" /> Jonah, meanwhile,<n id="7" /> had gone down<n id="8" /> into the hold<n id="9" /> below deck,<n id="10" /> had lain down, and was sound asleep.<n id="11" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | Jon 4:8 |
| When the sun began to shine, God sent<n id="1" /> a hot<n id="2" /> east wind. So the sun beat down<n id="3" /> on Jonah’s head, and he grew faint. So he despaired of life,<n id="4" /> and said, “I would rather die than live!”<n id="5" /> |
| (0.33335767132867) | Mic 3:5 |
| <p class="poetry">This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says: “The prophets who mislead my peoplep> <p class="poetry">are as good as dead.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">If someone gives them enough to eat,p> <p class="poetry">they offer an oracle of peace.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">But if someone does not give them food,p> <p class="poetry">they are ready to declare war on him.<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | Mic 5:6 |
| <p class="poetry">They will rule<n id="1" /> the land of Assyria with the sword,p> <p class="poetry">the land of Nimrod<n id="2" /> with a drawn sword.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Our king<n id="4" /> will rescue us from the Assyriansp> <p class="poetry">should they attempt to invade our landp> <p class="poetry">and try to set foot in our territory.p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | Zep 1:12 |
| <p class="poetry">At that time I will search through Jerusalem with lamps.p> <p class="poetry">I will punish the people who are entrenched in their sin,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">those who think to themselves,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">‘The <sc>Lordsc> neither rewards nor punishes.’<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | Zep 1:18 |
| <p class="poetry">Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver themp> <p class="poetry">in the day of the <sc>Lordsc>’s angry judgment.p> <p class="poetry">The whole earth<n id="1" /> will be consumed by his fiery wrath.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Indeed,<n id="3" /> he will bring terrifying destruction<n id="4" /> on all who live on the earth.”<n id="5" />p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | Zep 3:20 |
| <p class="poetry">At that time I will lead you –p> <p class="poetry">at the time I gather you together.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Be sure of this!<n id="2" /> I will make all the nations of the earth respect and admire you<n id="3" />p> <p class="bodytext">when you see me restore you,”<n id="4" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>.p> |
| (0.33335767132867) | Hag 1:14 |
| So the <sc>Lordsc> energized and encouraged<n id="1" /> Zerubbabel<n id="2" /> son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak,<n id="3" /> and the whole remnant of the people.<n id="4" /> They came and worked on the temple of their God, the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all. |
| (0.33335767132867) | Hag 2:3 |
| ‘Who among you survivors saw the former splendor of this temple?<n id="1" /> How does it look to you now? Isn’t it nothing by comparison? |
| (0.33335767132867) | Hag 2:6 |
| Moreover, the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all says: ‘In just a little while<n id="1" /> I will once again shake the sky<n id="2" /> and the earth, the sea and the dry ground. |
| (0.33335767132867) | Zec 1:6 |
| But have my words and statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, not outlived your fathers?<n id="1" /> Then they paid attention<n id="2" /> and confessed, ‘The <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all has indeed done what he said he would do to us, because of our sinful ways.’”p> |
