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web@Hosea:1:1 @ The word of Yahweh {"Yahweh" is God's proper Name, sometimes rendered "LORD" (all caps) in other translations.} that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

web@Hosea:1:4 @ Yahweh said to him, "Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.

web@Hosea:1:5 @ It will happen in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel."

web@Hosea:1:6 @ She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then he said to him, "Call her name Lo-Ruhamah {Lo-Ruhamah means "not loved."}; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.

web@Hosea:1:7 @ But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God {The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim."}, and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen."

web@Hosea:1:9 @ He said, "Call his name Lo-Ammi {Lo-Ammi means "not my people"}; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.

web@Hosea:1:10 @ Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can't be measured nor numbered; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'

web@Hosea:1:11 @ The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel.

web@Hosea:2:1 @ "Say to your brothers, 'My people!' {'Ammi' in Hebrew} and to your sisters, 'My loved one!' {'Ruhamah' in Hebrew}

web@Hosea:2:2 @ Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

web@Hosea:2:13 @ I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me," says Yahweh.

web@Hosea:3:1 @ Yahweh said to me, "Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins."

web@Hosea:3:2 @ So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer {1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels} and a half of barley.

web@Hosea:3:4 @ For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.

web@Hosea:3:5 @ Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.

web@Hosea:4:1 @ Hear the word of Yahweh, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

web@Hosea:4:2 @ There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

web@Hosea:4:3 @ Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells therein will waste away. all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.

web@Hosea:4:9 @ It will be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds.

web@Hosea:4:13 @ They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, and your brides commit adultery.

web@Hosea:4:14 @ I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.

web@Hosea:4:15 @ "Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet don't let Judah offend; and don't come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth Aven, nor swear, 'As Yahweh lives.'

web@Hosea:4:16 @ For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow.

web@Hosea:4:17 @ Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!

web@Hosea:4:19 @ The wind has wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be disappointed because of their sacrifices.

web@Hosea:5:1 @ "Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.

web@Hosea:5:2 @ The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I discipline all of them.

web@Hosea:5:3 @ I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.

web@Hosea:5:4 @ Their deeds won't allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don't know Yahweh.

web@Hosea:5:5 @ The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them.

web@Hosea:5:9 @ Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.

web@Hosea:5:11 @ Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.

web@Hosea:5:13 @ "When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.

web@Hosea:6:2 @ After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up, and we will live before him.

web@Hosea:6:3 @ Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth."

web@Hosea:6:4 @ "Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.

web@Hosea:6:8 @ Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

web@Hosea:6:10 @ In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled.

web@Hosea:6:11 @ "Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, when I restore the fortunes of my people.

web@Hosea:7:1 @ When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside.

web@Hosea:7:4 @ They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.

web@Hosea:7:5 @ On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.

web@Hosea:7:7 @ They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.

web@Hosea:7:8 @ Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.

web@Hosea:7:9 @ Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn't realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn't realize it.

web@Hosea:7:10 @ The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven't returned to Yahweh their God, nor sought him, for all this.

web@Hosea:7:11 @ "Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

web@Hosea:7:12 @ When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.

web@Hosea:7:16 @ They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

web@Hosea:8:1 @ "Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over Yahweh's house, because they have broken my covenant, and rebelled against my law.

web@Hosea:8:2 @ They cry to me, 'My God, we Israel acknowledge you!'

web@Hosea:8:3 @ Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him.

web@Hosea:8:5 @ Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?

web@Hosea:8:6 @ For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

web@Hosea:8:8 @ Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.

web@Hosea:8:13 @ As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; But Yahweh doesn't accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.

web@Hosea:8:14 @ For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses."

web@Hosea:9:1 @ Don't rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.

web@Hosea:9:6 @ For, behold, they have gone away from destruction. Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.

web@Hosea:9:7 @ The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.

web@Hosea:9:8 @ A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler's snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.

web@Hosea:9:9 @ They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.

web@Hosea:9:10 @ I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.

web@Hosea:9:13 @ I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.

web@Hosea:9:14 @ Give them--Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

web@Hosea:9:15 @ "All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.

web@Hosea:9:16 @ Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they bring forth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb."

web@Hosea:9:17 @ My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.

web@Hosea:10:1 @ Israel is a luxuriant vine that puts forth his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.

web@Hosea:10:2 @ Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.

web@Hosea:10:4 @ They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

web@Hosea:10:6 @ It also will be carried to Assyria for a present to a great king. Ephraim will receive shame, and Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel.

web@Hosea:10:8 @ The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars. They will tell the mountains, "Cover us!" and the hills, "Fall on us!"

web@Hosea:10:9 @ "Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they remained. The battle against the children of iniquity doesn't overtake them in Gibeah.

web@Hosea:10:10 @ When it is my desire, I will chastise them; and the nations will be gathered against them, when they are bound to their two transgressions.

web@Hosea:10:11 @ Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods.

web@Hosea:10:12 @ Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

web@Hosea:10:14 @ Therefore a battle roar will arise among your people, and all your fortresses will be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battle. The mother was dashed in pieces with her children.

web@Hosea:10:15 @ So Bethel will do to you because of your great wickedness. At daybreak the king of Israel will be destroyed.

web@Hosea:11:1 @ "When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

web@Hosea:11:3 @ Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by his arms; but they didn't know that I healed them.

web@Hosea:11:8 @ "How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.

web@Hosea:11:12 @ Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit. Judah still strays from God, and is unfaithful to the Holy One.

web@Hosea:12:1 @ Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

web@Hosea:12:2 @ Yahweh also has a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his deeds he will repay him.

web@Hosea:12:3 @ In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he contended with God.

web@Hosea:12:5 @ even Yahweh, the God of Armies; Yahweh is his name of renown!

web@Hosea:12:7 @ A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.

web@Hosea:12:8 @ Ephraim said, "Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won't find in me any iniquity that is sin."

web@Hosea:12:10 @ I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.

web@Hosea:12:11 @ If Gilead is wicked, surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.

web@Hosea:12:12 @ Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.

web@Hosea:12:13 @ By a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.

web@Hosea:12:14 @ Ephraim has bitterly provoked anger. Therefore his blood will be left on him, and his Lord {The word translated "Lord" is "Adonai."} will repay his contempt.

web@Hosea:13:1 @ When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he became guilty in Baal, he died.

web@Hosea:13:2 @ Now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, 'They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.'

web@Hosea:13:3 @ Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.

web@Hosea:13:4 @ "Yet I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt; and you shall acknowledge no god but me, and besides me there is no savior.

web@Hosea:13:8 @ I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.

web@Hosea:13:9 @ You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, against your help.

web@Hosea:13:10 @ Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, 'Give me a king and princes?'

web@Hosea:13:12 @ The guilt of Ephraim is stored up. His sin is stored up.

web@Hosea:13:13 @ The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son; for when it is time, he doesn't come to the opening of the womb.

web@Hosea:13:14 @ I will ransom them from the power of Sheol {Sheol is the place of the dead.}. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? "Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

web@Hosea:13:15 @ Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness; and his spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.

web@Hosea:14:1 @ Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.

web@Hosea:14:2 @ Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, "Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.

web@Hosea:14:4 @ "I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.

web@Hosea:14:5 @ I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.

web@Hosea:14:6 @ His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon.

web@Hosea:14:7 @ Men will dwell in his shade. They will revive like the grain, and blossom like the vine. Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.

web@Hosea:14:8 @ Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green fir tree; from me your fruit is found."

web@Hosea:14:9 @ Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

web@Joel:1:1 @ The Word of Yahweh {"Yahweh" is God's proper Name, sometimes rendered "LORD" (all caps) in other translations.} that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.

web@Joel:1:2 @ Hear this, you elders, And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

web@Joel:1:5 @ Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

web@Joel:1:6 @ For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.

web@Joel:1:9 @ The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh's house. The priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn.

web@Joel:1:10 @ The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.

web@Joel:1:11 @ Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.

web@Joel:1:13 @ Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God {The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim."}, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God's house.

web@Joel:1:15 @ Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

web@Joel:1:16 @ Isn't the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness from the house of our God?

web@Joel:2:1 @ Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is close at hand:

web@Joel:2:3 @ A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.

web@Joel:2:4 @ Their appearance is as the appearance of horses, and as horsemen, so do they run.

web@Joel:2:5 @ Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

web@Joel:2:6 @ At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.

web@Joel:2:7 @ They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like warriors. They each march in his line, and they don't swerve off course.

web@Joel:2:8 @ Neither does one jostle another; they march everyone in his path, and they burst through the defenses, and don't break ranks.

web@Joel:2:11 @ Yahweh thunders his voice before his army; for his forces are very great; for he is strong who obeys his command; for the day of Yahweh is great and very awesome, and who can endure it?

web@Joel:2:13 @ Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

web@Joel:2:16 @ Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth from his room, and the bride out of her room.

web@Joel:2:17 @ Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, "Spare your people, Yahweh, and don't give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"

web@Joel:2:18 @ Then Yahweh was jealous for his land, And had pity on his people.

web@Joel:2:19 @ Yahweh answered his people, "Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied with them; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.

web@Joel:2:20 @ But I will remove the northern army far away from you, and will drive it into a barren and desolate land, its front into the eastern sea, and its back into the western sea; and its stench will come up, and its bad smell will rise." Surely he has done great things.

web@Joel:2:26 @ You will have plenty to eat, and be satisfied, and will praise the name of Yahweh, your God, who has dealt wondrously with you; and my people will never again be disappointed.

web@Joel:2:27 @ You will know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am Yahweh, your God, and there is no one else; and my people will never again be disappointed.

web@Joel:2:28 @ "It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.

web@Joel:3:2 @ I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land,

web@Joel:3:4 @ "Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.

web@Joel:3:9 @ Proclaim this among the nations: "Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up.

web@Joel:3:13 @ Put in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the winepress is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great."

web@Joel:3:14 @ Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision.

web@Joel:3:16 @ Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.

web@Amos:1:1 @ The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

web@Amos:1:2 @ He said: "Yahweh {"Yahweh" is God's proper Name, sometimes rendered "LORD" (all caps) in other translations.} will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds will mourn, and the top of Carmel will wither."

web@Amos:1:3 @ Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;

web@Amos:1:6 @ Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Gaza, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they carried away captive the whole community, to deliver them up to Edom;

web@Amos:1:8 @ I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon; and I will turn my hand against Ekron; and the remnant of the Philistines will perish," says the Lord {The word translated "Lord" is "Adonai."} Yahweh.

web@Amos:1:9 @ Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they delivered up the whole community to Edom, and didn't remember the brotherly covenant;

web@Amos:1:11 @ Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever;

web@Amos:1:13 @ Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border.

web@Amos:1:15 @ and their king will go into captivity, he and his princes together," says Yahweh.

web@Amos:2:1 @ Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime;

web@Amos:2:4 @ Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have rejected Yahweh's law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked;

web@Amos:2:6 @ Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;

web@Amos:2:7 @ They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

web@Amos:2:8 @ and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God {The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim."} they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

web@Amos:2:9 @ Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

web@Amos:2:11 @ I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Isn't this true, you children of Israel?" says Yahweh.

web@Amos:2:13 @ Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain.

web@Amos:2:14 @ Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won't strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;

web@Amos:2:15 @ neither shall he stand who handles the bow; and he who is swift of foot won't escape; neither shall he who rides the horse deliver himself;

web@Amos:2:16 @ and he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked on that day," says Yahweh.

web@Amos:3:1 @ Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against you, children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying:

web@Amos:3:2 @ "You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins."

web@Amos:3:4 @ Will a lion roar in the thicket, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?

web@Amos:3:5 @ Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, where no snare is set for him? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when there is nothing to catch?

web@Amos:3:7 @ Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

web@Amos:3:9 @ Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, "Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see what unrest is in her, and what oppression is among them."

web@Amos:3:12 @ Thus says Yahweh: "As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the children of Israel be rescued who sit in Samaria on the corner of a couch, and on the silken cushions of a bed."

web@Amos:3:13 @ "Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob," says the Lord Yahweh, the God of Armies.

web@Amos:3:14 @ "For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel; and the horns of the altar will be cut off, and fall to the ground.

web@Amos:3:15 @ I will strike the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory will perish, and the great houses will have an end," says Yahweh.

web@Amos:4:1 @ Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks!"

web@Amos:4:2 @ The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, "The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.

web@Amos:4:5 @ offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: for this pleases you, you children of Israel," says the Lord Yahweh.

web@Amos:4:8 @ So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.

web@Amos:4:12 @ "Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.

web@Amos:4:13 @ For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name."

web@Amos:5:1 @ Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.

web@Amos:5:2 @ "The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; there is no one to raise her up."

web@Amos:5:3 @ For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel."

web@Amos:5:4 @ For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel: "Seek me, and you will live;

web@Amos:5:8 @ seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

web@Amos:5:13 @ Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

web@Amos:5:15 @ Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph."

web@Amos:5:18 @ "Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.

web@Amos:5:19 @ As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.

web@Amos:5:21 @ I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can't stand your solemn assemblies.

web@Amos:5:23 @ Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

web@Amos:5:25 @ "Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?

web@Amos:5:27 @ Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus," says Yahweh, whose name is the God of Armies.

web@Amos:6:1 @ Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!

web@Amos:6:2 @ Go to Calneh, and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. are they better than these kingdoms? or is their border greater than your border?

web@Amos:6:8 @ "The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself," says Yahweh, the God of Armies: "I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.

web@Amos:6:10 @ "When a man's relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, 'Is there yet any with you?' And he says, 'No;' then he will say, 'Hush! Indeed we must not mention the name of Yahweh.'

web@Amos:6:12 @ Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;

web@Amos:6:14 @ For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, house of Israel," says Yahweh, the God of Armies; "and they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah."

web@Amos:7:2 @ It happened that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, "Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small."

web@Amos:7:3 @ Yahweh relented concerning this. "It shall not be," says Yahweh.

web@Amos:7:5 @ Then I said, "Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small."

web@Amos:7:6 @ Yahweh relented concerning this. "This also shall not be," says the Lord Yahweh.

web@Amos:7:7 @ Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.

web@Amos:7:8 @ Yahweh said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.

web@Amos:7:9 @ The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword."

web@Amos:7:10 @ Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.

web@Amos:7:11 @ For Amos says, 'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'"

web@Amos:7:13 @ but don't prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house!"

web@Amos:7:15 @ and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'

web@Amos:7:16 @ Now therefore listen to the word of Yahweh: 'You say, Don't prophesy against Israel, and don't preach against the house of Isaac.'

web@Amos:7:17 @ Therefore thus says Yahweh: 'Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'"

web@Amos:8:2 @ He said, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then Yahweh said to me, "The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.

web@Amos:8:4 @ Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

web@Amos:8:5 @ Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah {1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 23 of a bushel} small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

web@Amos:8:8 @ Won't the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.

web@Amos:8:14 @ Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, 'As your god, Dan, lives;' and, 'As the way of Beersheba lives;' they will fall, and never rise up again."

web@Amos:9:2 @ Though they dig into Sheol {Sheol is the place of the dead.}, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

web@Amos:9:5 @ For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.

web@Amos:9:6 @ It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.

web@Amos:9:7 @ Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?" says Yahweh. "Haven't I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

web@Amos:9:9 @ "For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.

web@Amos:9:11 @ In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;

web@Amos:9:12 @ that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations who are called by my name," says Yahweh who does this.

web@Amos:9:14 @ I will bring my people Israel back from captivity, and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens, and eat their fruit.

web@Obadiah:1:1 @ The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord {The word translated "Lord" is "Adonai."} Yahweh {"Yahweh" is God's proper Name, sometimes rendered "LORD" (all caps) in other translations.} says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, "Arise, and let's rise up against her in battle.

web@Obadiah:1:2 @ Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.

web@Obadiah:1:3 @ The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, 'Who will bring me down to the ground?'

web@Obadiah:1:4 @ Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there," says Yahweh.

web@Obadiah:1:5 @ "If thieves came to you, if robbers by night--oh, what disaster awaits you--wouldn't they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn't they leave some gleaning grapes?

web@Obadiah:1:6 @ How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!

web@Obadiah:1:7 @ All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him."

web@Obadiah:1:8 @ "Won't I in that day," says Yahweh, "destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?

web@Obadiah:1:9 @ Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

web@Obadiah:1:11 @ In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.

web@Obadiah:1:12 @ But don't look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don't rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don't speak proudly in the day of distress.

web@Obadiah:1:14 @ Don't stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don't deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.

web@Obadiah:1:15 @ For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.

web@Obadiah:1:19 @ Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.

web@Obadiah:1:20 @ The captives of this army of the children of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev.

web@Jonah:1:1 @ Now the word of Yahweh {"Yahweh" is God's proper Name, sometimes rendered "LORD" (all caps) in other translations.} came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

web@Jonah:1:2 @ "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me."

web@Jonah:1:3 @ But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.

web@Jonah:1:5 @ Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.

web@Jonah:1:6 @ So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God {or, gods}! Maybe your God {or, gods} will notice us, so that we won't perish."

web@Jonah:1:7 @ They all said to each other, "Come, let us cast lots, that we may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

web@Jonah:1:8 @ Then they asked him, "Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what people are you?"

web@Jonah:1:9 @ He said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God {The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim."} of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land."

web@Jonah:1:10 @ Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said to him, "What is this that you have done?" For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of Yahweh, because he had told them.

web@Jonah:1:12 @ He said to them, "Take me up, and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; for I know that because of me this great storm is on you."

web@Jonah:1:14 @ Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, "We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, don't let us die for this man's life, and don't lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you."

web@Jonah:1:17 @ Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

web@Jonah:2:1 @ Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish's belly.

web@Jonah:2:2 @ He said, "I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol {Sheol is the place of the dead.} I cried. You heard my voice.

web@Jonah:2:4 @ I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'

web@Jonah:2:10 @ Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.

web@Jonah:3:2 @ "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you."

web@Jonah:3:6 @ The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

web@Jonah:3:7 @ He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, "Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;

web@Jonah:3:8 @ but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.

web@Jonah:3:9 @ Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?"

web@Jonah:3:10 @ God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn't do it.

web@Jonah:4:1 @ But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

web@Jonah:4:2 @ He prayed to Yahweh, and said, "Please, Yahweh, wasn't this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.

web@Jonah:4:3 @ Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."

web@Jonah:4:4 @ Yahweh said, "Is it right for you to be angry?"

web@Jonah:4:6 @ Yahweh God prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine.

web@Jonah:4:8 @ It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."

web@Jonah:4:9 @ God said to Jonah, "Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?" He said, "I am right to be angry, even to death."

web@Jonah:4:10 @ Yahweh said, "You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night.

web@Jonah:4:11 @ Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?"

web@Micah:1:1 @ The word of Yahweh {"Yahweh" is God's proper Name, sometimes rendered "LORD" (all caps) in other translations.} that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

web@Micah:1:2 @ Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord {The word translated "Lord" is "Adonai."} Yahweh be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

web@Micah:1:3 @ For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place, and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.

web@Micah:1:5 @ "All this is for the disobedience of Jacob, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the disobedience of Jacob? Isn't it Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Aren't they Jerusalem?

web@Micah:1:8 @ For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.

web@Micah:1:11 @ Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan won't come out. The wailing of Beth Ezel will take from you his protection.

web@Micah:1:13 @ Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; For the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

web@Micah:1:14 @ Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth Gath. The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.

web@Micah:1:15 @ I will yet bring to you, inhabitant of Mareshah. He who is the glory of Israel will come to Adullam.

web@Micah:2:1 @ Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

web@Micah:2:2 @ They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

web@Micah:2:3 @ Therefore thus says Yahweh: "Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.

web@Micah:2:4 @ In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, 'We are utterly ruined! My people's possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!'"

web@Micah:2:6 @ "Don't prophesy!" They prophesy. "Don't prophesy about these things. Disgrace won't overtake us."

web@Micah:2:7 @ Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: "Is the Spirit of Yahweh angry? Are these his doings? Don't my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?"

web@Micah:2:8 @ But lately my people have risen up as an enemy. You strip the robe and clothing from those who pass by without a care, returning from battle.

web@Micah:2:10 @ Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.

web@Micah:2:11 @ If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: "I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink"; he would be the prophet of this people.

web@Micah:2:12 @ I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the midst of their pasture; they will swarm with people.

web@Micah:3:1 @ I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn't it for you to know justice?

web@Micah:3:4 @ Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil."

web@Micah:3:6 @ "Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

web@Micah:3:7 @ The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God {The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim."}."

web@Micah:3:8 @ But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.

web@Micah:3:9 @ Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.

web@Micah:3:11 @ Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, "Isn't Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us."

web@Micah:4:1 @ But in the latter days, it will happen that the mountain of Yahweh's temple will be established on the top of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills; and peoples will stream to it.

web@Micah:4:2 @ Many nations will go and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths." For out of Zion will go forth the law, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem;

web@Micah:4:4 @ But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and no one will make them afraid: For the mouth of Yahweh of Armies has spoken.

web@Micah:4:6 @ "In that day," says Yahweh, "I will assemble that which is lame, and I will gather that which is driven away, and that which I have afflicted;

web@Micah:4:9 @ Now why do you cry out aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pains have taken hold of you as of a woman in travail?

web@Micah:4:12 @ But they don't know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.

web@Micah:4:13 @ Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs brass; and you will beat in pieces many peoples: and I will devote their gain to Yahweh, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.

web@Micah:5:1 @ Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.

web@Micah:5:2 @ But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come forth to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.

web@Micah:5:3 @ Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.

web@Micah:5:4 @ He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.

web@Micah:5:5 @ He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land, and when he marches through our fortresses, then we will raise against him seven shepherds, and eight leaders of men.

web@Micah:5:8 @ The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.

web@Micah:5:15 @ I will execute vengeance in anger, and wrath on the nations that didn't listen."

web@Micah:6:1 @ Listen now to what Yahweh says: "Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say.

web@Micah:6:2 @ Hear, you mountains, Yahweh's controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.

web@Micah:6:5 @ My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh."

web@Micah:6:7 @ Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

web@Micah:6:8 @ He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

web@Micah:6:9 @ Yahweh's voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: "Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.

web@Micah:6:10 @ Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah {An ephah is a measure of volume (about 22 litres or about 23 of a bushel), and a short ephah is made smaller than a full ephah for the purpose of cheating customers.} that is accursed?

web@Micah:6:11 @ Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

web@Micah:6:12 @ Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

web@Micah:6:14 @ You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be in your midst. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword.

web@Micah:6:16 @ For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people."

web@Micah:7:1 @ Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.

web@Micah:7:2 @ The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

web@Micah:7:3 @ Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

web@Micah:7:4 @ The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.

web@Micah:7:6 @ For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

web@Micah:7:8 @ Don't rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

web@Micah:7:9 @ I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light. I will see his righteousness.

web@Micah:7:10 @ Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.

web@Micah:7:18 @ Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn't retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

web@Nahum:1:1 @ An oracle about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

web@Nahum:1:2 @ Yahweh {"Yahweh" is God's proper Name, sometimes rendered "LORD" (all caps) in other translations.} is a jealous God {The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim."} and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.

web@Nahum:1:3 @ Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

web@Nahum:1:4 @ He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.

web@Nahum:1:5 @ The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.

web@Nahum:1:6 @ Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.

web@Nahum:1:7 @ Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

web@Nahum:1:8 @ But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

web@Nahum:1:9 @ What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won't rise up the second time.

web@Nahum:1:11 @ There is one gone forth out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

web@Nahum:1:12 @ Thus says Yahweh: "Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.

web@Nahum:1:13 @ Now will I break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart."

web@Nahum:1:15 @ Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.

web@Nahum:2:1 @ He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!

web@Nahum:2:2 @ For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches.

web@Nahum:2:3 @ The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.

web@Nahum:2:4 @ The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the broad ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings.

web@Nahum:2:5 @ He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.

web@Nahum:2:6 @ The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.

web@Nahum:2:7 @ It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.

web@Nahum:2:9 @ Take the spoil of silver. Take the spoil of gold, for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.

web@Nahum:2:10 @ She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.

web@Nahum:2:11 @ Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's cubs, and no one made them afraid?

web@Nahum:2:12 @ The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.

web@Nahum:3:1 @ Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn't depart.

web@Nahum:3:2 @ The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,

web@Nahum:3:3 @ the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,

web@Nahum:3:4 @ because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.

web@Nahum:3:7 @ It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, 'Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?' Where will I seek comforters for you?"

web@Nahum:3:17 @ Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

web@Nahum:3:18 @ Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.

web@Nahum:3:19 @ There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn't felt your endless cruelty?

web@Habbakkuk:1:2 @ Yahweh, {"Yahweh" is God's proper Name, sometimes rendered "LORD" (all caps) in other translations.} how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you "Violence!" and will you not save?

web@Habbakkuk:1:3 @ Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.

web@Habbakkuk:1:4 @ Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.

web@Habbakkuk:1:5 @ "Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told you.

web@Habbakkuk:1:6 @ For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.

web@Habbakkuk:1:9 @ All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.

web@Habbakkuk:1:10 @ Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.

web@Habbakkuk:1:11 @ Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god."

web@Habbakkuk:1:12 @ Aren't you from everlasting, Yahweh my God {The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim."}, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.

web@Habbakkuk:1:13 @ You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

web@Habbakkuk:1:14 @ and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

web@Habbakkuk:1:15 @ He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.

web@Habbakkuk:1:16 @ Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.

web@Habbakkuk:1:17 @ Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?

web@Habbakkuk:2:2 @ Yahweh answered me, "Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.

web@Habbakkuk:2:3 @ For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won't prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won't delay.

web@Habbakkuk:2:4 @ Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

web@Habbakkuk:2:5 @ Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn't stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol {Sheol is the place of the dead.}, and he is like death, and can't be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

web@Habbakkuk:2:6 @ Won't all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?'

web@Habbakkuk:2:7 @ Won't your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

web@Habbakkuk:2:9 @ Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

web@Habbakkuk:2:10 @ You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.

web@Habbakkuk:2:12 @ Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

web@Habbakkuk:2:13 @ Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

web@Habbakkuk:2:15 @ "Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!

web@Habbakkuk:2:16 @ You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh's right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.

web@Habbakkuk:2:19 @ Woe to him who says to the wood, 'Awake!' or to the mute stone, 'Arise!' Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in its midst.

web@Habbakkuk:2:20 @ But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!"

web@Habbakkuk:3:3 @ God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.

web@Habbakkuk:3:4 @ His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.

web@Habbakkuk:3:5 @ Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet.

web@Habbakkuk:3:6 @ He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.

web@Habbakkuk:3:8 @ Was Yahweh displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers, or your wrath against the sea, that you rode on your horses, on your chariots of salvation?

web@Habbakkuk:3:14 @ You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.

web@Habbakkuk:3:17 @ For though the fig tree doesn't flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:

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