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acv@Hosea:1:1 @ The word of LORD 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.

acv@Hosea:1:2 @ When LORD spoke at the first by Hosea, LORD said to Hosea, Go, take to thee a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom, departing from LORD.

acv@Hosea:1:3 @ So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived, and bore him a son.

acv@Hosea:1:4 @ And LORD said to him, Call his name Jezreel, for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.

acv@Hosea:1:6 @ And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And [LORD] said to him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah, for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.

acv@Hosea:1:7 @ But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.

acv@Hosea:1:8 @ Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.

acv@Hosea:1:9 @ And [LORD] said, Call his name Lo-ammi, for ye are not my people, and I will not be yours.

acv@Hosea:1:10 @ Yet the number of the sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered. And it shall come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said to them, Th

acv@Hosea:1:11 @ And the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint themselves one head, and shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

acv@Hosea:2:2 @ Contend with your mother. Contend, for she is not my wife, nor am I her husband. And let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts,

acv@Hosea:2:3 @ lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

acv@Hosea:2:4 @ Yea, I will have no mercy upon her sons, for they are sons of whoredom,

acv@Hosea:2:5 @ for their mother has played the harlot. She who conceived them has done shamefully, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

acv@Hosea:2:6 @ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.

acv@Hosea:2:7 @ And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them. And she shall seek them, but shall not find them. Then she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better with me then than now.

acv@Hosea:2:8 @ For she did not know that I gave her the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

acv@Hosea:2:9 @ Therefore I will take back my grain in the time of it, and my new wine in the season of it, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.

acv@Hosea:2:12 @ And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, These are my hire that my lovers have given me. And I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

acv@Hosea:2:13 @ And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, to which she burned incense when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, says LORD.

acv@Hosea:2:14 @ Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak soothingly to her.

acv@Hosea:2:15 @ And I will give her her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope. And she shall make answer there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

acv@Hosea:2:16 @ And it shall be at that day, says LORD, that thou shall call me Ishi, and shall no more call me Baali.

acv@Hosea:2:17 @ For I will take away the names of the Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be mentioned by their name.

acv@Hosea:2:18 @ And in that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and with the creeping things of the ground. And I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land, and

acv@Hosea:2:19 @ And I will betroth thee to me forever. Yea, I will betroth thee to me in righteousness, and in justice, and in loving kindness, and in mercies.

acv@Hosea:2:20 @ I will even betroth thee to me in faithfulness, and thou shall know LORD.

acv@Hosea:2:21 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, I will answer, says LORD. I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth,

acv@Hosea:3:1 @ And LORD said to me, Go again, love a woman beloved of [her] friend, and an adulteress, even as LORD loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.

acv@Hosea:3:2 @ So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley.

acv@Hosea:3:3 @ And I said to her, Thou shall abide for me many days. Thou shall not play the harlot, and thou shall not be any man's wife. So I will also be toward thee.

acv@Hosea:3:4 @ For the sons of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without ruler, and without sacrifice, and without pillar, and without ephod or teraphim.

acv@Hosea:3:5 @ Afterward the sons of Israel shall return and seek LORD their God and David their king, and shall come with fear to LORD and to his goodness in the latter days.

acv@Hosea:4:1 @ Hear the word of LORD, ye sons of Israel, for LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

acv@Hosea:4:3 @ Therefore the land shall mourn, and everyone who dwells in it shall languish with the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens. Yea, the fishes of the sea shall also be taken away.

acv@Hosea:4:4 @ Yet, let no man strive, nor let any man reprove, for thy people are as those who strive with the priest.

acv@Hosea:4:6 @ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because thou have rejected knowledge, I also will reject thee, that thou shall be no priest to me. Since thou have forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy sons.

acv@Hosea:4:7 @ As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.

acv@Hosea:4:9 @ And it shall be, like people, like priest. And I will punish them for their ways, and will requite them their doings.

acv@Hosea:4:10 @ And they shall eat, and not have enough. They shall play the harlot, and shall not increase, because they have left off taking heed to LORD.

acv@Hosea:4:11 @ Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.

acv@Hosea:4:12 @ My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declares to them, for the spirit of whoredom has caused them to err, and they have played the harlot, [departing] from under their God.

acv@Hosea:4:13 @ They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow of it is good. Therefore your daughters play the harlot, and your brides commit adultery.

acv@Hosea:4:14 @ I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery. For themselves go apart with harlots, and they sacrifice with the prostitutes. And the people who do not understand shall be ove

acv@Hosea:4:15 @ Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend, and come not ye to Gilgal, nor go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, As LORD lives.

acv@Hosea:4:16 @ For Israel has behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Now LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

acv@Hosea:5:1 @ Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, O house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king, for to you pertains the judgment. For ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

acv@Hosea:5:3 @ I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me. For now, O Ephraim, thou have played the harlot; Israel is defiled.

acv@Hosea:5:4 @ Their doings will not allow them to turn to their God, for the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they do not know LORD.

acv@Hosea:5:5 @ And the pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity. Judah also shall stumble with them.

acv@Hosea:5:6 @ They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek LORD, but they shall not find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.

acv@Hosea:5:7 @ They have dealt treacherously against LORD, for they have borne strange sons. Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.

acv@Hosea:5:8 @ Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah. Sound an alarm at Beth-aven, behind thee, O Benjamin.

acv@Hosea:5:12 @ Therefore I am to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

acv@Hosea:5:13 @ When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah [saw] his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb. But he is not able to heal you, nor will he cure you of your wound.

acv@Hosea:5:14 @ For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear and go away, I will carry off, and there shall be none to deliver.

acv@Hosea:6:1 @ Come, and let us return to LORD, for he has torn, and he will heal us. He has smitten, and he will bind us up.

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

acv@Hosea:6:3 @ And let us know, let us follow on to know LORD. His going forth is sure as the morning, and he will come to us as the rain, as the latter rain that waters the earth.

acv@Hosea:6:4 @ O Ephraim, what shall I do to thee? O Judah, what shall I do to thee? For your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goes away early.

acv@Hosea:6:5 @ Therefore I have hewed them by the prophets. I have slain them by the words of my mouth. And thy judgments are [as] the light that goes forth.

acv@Hosea:6:6 @ For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

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

acv@Hosea:6:9 @ And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem. Yea, they have committed iniquity.

acv@Hosea:6:10 @ I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel. Whoredom is there in Ephraim; Israel is defiled.

acv@Hosea:6:11 @ Also, O Judah, there is a harvest appointed for thee when I bring back the captivity of my people.

acv@Hosea:7:1 @ When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria. For they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the troop of robbers ravages outside.

acv@Hosea:7:2 @ And they do not consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own doings have surrounded them; they are before my face.

acv@Hosea:7:6 @ For they have made their heart ready like an oven, while they lay in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

acv@Hosea:7:10 @ And the pride of Israel testifies to his face. Yet they have not returned to LORD their God, nor sought him for all this.

acv@Hosea:7:13 @ Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

acv@Hosea:7:14 @ And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howl upon their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They rebel against me.

acv@Hosea:7:16 @ They return, but not to [him] on high. They are like a deceitful bow. Their rulers shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

acv@Hosea:8:1 @ [Set] the trumpet to thy mouth. As an eagle [he comes] against the house of LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

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

acv@Hosea:8:7 @ For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The blade shall yield no meal. If so be it yields, strangers shall swallow it up.

acv@Hosea:8:9 @ For they have gone up to Assyria [like] a wild donkey alone by himself. Ephraim has hired lovers.

acv@Hosea:8:11 @ Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, altars have been to him for sinning.

acv@Hosea:8:12 @ I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law, but they are counted as a strange thing.

acv@Hosea:8:13 @ As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it, but LORD does not accept them. He will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins. They shall return to Egypt.

acv@Hosea:8:14 @ For Israel has forgotten his maker, and built palaces. And Judah has multiplied fortified cities. But I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the castles thereof.

acv@Hosea:9:1 @ Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy like the peoples, for thou have played the harlot, [departing] from thy God. Thou have loved hire upon every grain-floor.

acv@Hosea:9:2 @ The threshing floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.

acv@Hosea:9:3 @ They shall not dwell in LORD's land, but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

acv@Hosea:9:4 @ They shall not pour out wine-offerings to LORD, nor shall they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices shall be to them as the bread of mourners. All who eat of it shall be polluted, for their bread shall be for their appetite. It sha

acv@Hosea:9:5 @ What will ye do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of LORD?

acv@Hosea:9:6 @ For, lo, they have gone away from destruction, [yet] Egypt shall gather them up. Memphis shall bury them. Their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall possess them. Thorns shall be in their tents.

acv@Hosea:9:7 @ The days of visitation have come. The days of recompense have come. Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the abundance of thine iniquity, and because the enmity is great.

acv@Hosea:9:8 @ Ephraim [was] a watchman with my God. As for the prophet, a fowler's snare is in all his ways, [and] enmity in the house of his God.

acv@Hosea:9:9 @ They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will visit their sins.

acv@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 w

acv@Hosea:9:11 @ As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird. There shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.

acv@Hosea:9:14 @ Give them, O LORD--what will thou give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

acv@Hosea:9:15 @ All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more. All their rulers are rebels.

acv@Hosea:9:16 @ Ephraim is smitten. Their root is dried up. They shall bear no fruit. Yea, though they bring forth, yet I will kill the beloved fruit of their womb.

acv@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. According to the goodness of their land they have made goodly pillars.

acv@Hosea:10:3 @ Surely now they shall say, We have no king, for we fear not LORD. And the king, what can he do for us?

acv@Hosea:10:4 @ They speak [vain] words, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

acv@Hosea:10:5 @ The inhabitants of Samaria shall be in terror for the calves of Beth-aven. For the people of it shall mourn over it, and the priests of it, who rejoiced over it for the glory of it, because it has departed from it.

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

acv@Hosea:10:7 @ [As for] Samaria, her king is cut off, as foam upon the water.

acv@Hosea:10:8 @ The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars, and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us, and to the hills, Fall on us.

acv@Hosea:10:12 @ Sow to yourselves in righteousness. Reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek LORD, till he comes and rains righteousness upon you.

acv@Hosea:10:13 @ Ye have plowed wickedness. Ye have reaped iniquity. Ye have eaten the fruit of lies. For thou trusted in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.

acv@Hosea:10:14 @ Therefore a tumult shall arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel in the day of battle; the mother was dashed in pieces with her sons.

acv@Hosea:11:2 @ The more [the prophets] called them, the more they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

acv@Hosea:11:4 @ I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love, and I was to them as those who lift up the yoke on their jaws. And I laid food before them.

acv@Hosea:11:6 @ And the sword shall fall upon their cities, and shall consume their bars, and devour [them], because of their own counsels.

acv@Hosea:11:9 @ I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim. For I am God, and not man, the Holy One in the midst of thee, and I will not come in wrath.

acv@Hosea:11:10 @ They shall walk after LORD, who will roar like a lion. For he will roar, and the sons shall come trembling from the west.

acv@Hosea:11:11 @ They shall come trembling as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria. And I will make them to dwell in their houses, says LORD.

acv@Hosea:12:2 @ LORD has also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways. He will recompense him according to his doings.

acv@Hosea:12:5 @ But LORD God Almighty shall be his memorial.

acv@Hosea:12:6 @ Therefore turn thou to thy God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait for thy God continually.

acv@Hosea:12:8 @ And Ephraim said, Surely I have become rich. I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors they shall find no iniquity in me that is sin.

acv@Hosea:12:9 @ But I am LORD thy God from the land of Egypt. I will yet again make thee to dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.

acv@Hosea:12:12 @ And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].

acv@Hosea:12:13 @ And by a prophet LORD brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.

acv@Hosea:12:14 @ Ephraim has provoked to anger most bitterly. Therefore his blood shall be left upon him, and his reproach his LORD shall return to him.

acv@Hosea:13:2 @ And 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, Let the men who sacrifice kiss the ca

acv@Hosea:13:3 @ Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that passes away early, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

acv@Hosea:13:4 @ Yet I am LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shall know no god but me, and besides me there is no savior.

acv@Hosea:13:6 @ According to their pasture, so they were filled. They were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.

acv@Hosea:13:7 @ Therefore I am to them as a lion. As a leopard I will watch by the way.

acv@Hosea:13:12 @ The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up. His sin is laid up in store.

acv@Hosea:13:13 @ The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him. He is an unwise son, for it is time he should not tarry in the place of the breaking forth of sons.

acv@Hosea:13:15 @ Though he be fruitful among his brothers, an east wind shall come, the breath of LORD coming up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up. He shall make spoil of the treasure of all go

acv@Hosea:13:16 @ Samaria shall bear her guilt, for she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword. Their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

acv@Hosea:14:1 @ O Israel, return to LORD thy God, for thou have fallen by thine iniquity.

acv@Hosea:14:2 @ Take with you words, and return to LORD. Say to him, Take away all iniquity, and accept that which is good. So we will render [as] bullocks [the offering of] our lips.

acv@Hosea:14:3 @ Assyria shall not save us. We will not ride upon horses, nor will we say any more to the work of our hands, Our gods. For in thee the fatherless finds mercy.

acv@Hosea:14:4 @ I will heal their backsliding. I will love them freely. For my anger is turned away from him.

acv@Hosea:14:5 @ I will be as the dew to Israel. He shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

acv@Hosea:14:8 @ Ephraim [shall say], What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered, and will regard him. I am like a green fir tree. From me thy fruit is found.

acv@Hosea:14:9 @ Who is wise, that he may understand these things, prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them. But transgressors shall fall therein.

acv@Joel:1:1 @ The word of LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

acv@Joel:1:2 @ Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Has this been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

acv@Joel:1:4 @ That which the palmer-worm has left the locust has eaten, and that which the locust has left the canker-worm has eaten, and that which the canker-worm has left the caterpillar has eaten.

acv@Joel:1:5 @ Awake, ye drunkards, and weep, and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

acv@Joel:1:6 @ For a nation has come up upon my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the jaw-teeth of a lioness.

acv@Joel:1:8 @ Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

acv@Joel:1:9 @ The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of LORD. The priests, LORD's ministers, mourn.

acv@Joel:1:10 @ The field is laid waste; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes.

acv@Joel:1:11 @ Be confounded, O ye husbandmen. Wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley, for the harvest of the field is perished.

acv@Joel:1:12 @ The vine is withered, and the fig tree languishes. The pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field are withered. For joy has withered away from the sons of men.

acv@Joel:1:13 @ Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, ye priests. Wail, ye ministers of the altar. Come, lay all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God. For the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withheld from the house of your G

acv@Joel:1:14 @ Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the old men [and] all the inhabitants of the land to the house of LORD your God, and cry to LORD.

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

acv@Joel:1:16 @ Is not the food cut off before our eyes, [yea], joy and gladness from the house of our God?

acv@Joel:1:17 @ The seeds rot under their clods. The garners are laid desolate. The barns are broken down. For the grain is withered.

acv@Joel:1:19 @ O LORD, to thee do I cry. For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.

acv@Joel:1:20 @ Yea, the beasts of the field pant to thee, for the water brooks are dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

acv@Joel:2:1 @ Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble. For the day of LORD comes, for it is near at hand,

acv@Joel:2:2 @ a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the dawn spreads upon the mountains, a great people and a strong, there has not ever been the like, nor shall be any more after them, even to the years of man

acv@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. Yea, and none has escaped them.

acv@Joel:2:4 @ The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses, and as horsemen, so do they run.

acv@Joel:2:10 @ The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

acv@Joel:2:11 @ And LORD utters his voice before his army, for his camp is very great. For he is strong who executes his word. For the day of LORD is great and very fearful, and who can abide it?

acv@Joel:2:12 @ Yet even now, says LORD, turn ye to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.

acv@Joel:2:13 @ And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents of the evil.

acv@Joel:2:14 @ Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal-offering and a drink-offering to LORD your God?

acv@Joel:2:16 @ Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the old men. Gather the sons, and those who suck the breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

acv@Joel:2:17 @ Let the priests, the ministers of LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and do not give thy heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among t

acv@Joel:2:18 @ Then LORD was jealous for his land, and had pity on his people.

acv@Joel:2:19 @ And LORD answered and said to his people, Behold, I will send you grain, and new wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith. And I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.

acv@Joel:2:20 @ But I will remove the northern [army] far off from you, and will drive it into a land barren and desolate, its forepart into the eastern sea, and its rear part into the western sea. And its stench shall come up, and its foul odor s

acv@Joel:2:21 @ Fear not, O land. Be glad and rejoice, for LORD has done great things.

acv@Joel:2:22 @ Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness spring, for the tree bears its fruit, the fig tree and the vine yield their strength.

acv@Joel:2:23 @ Be glad then, ye sons of Zion, and rejoice in LORD your God, for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, in the first [month].

acv@Joel:2:24 @ And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil.

acv@Joel:2:25 @ And I will restore to you the years that the locust, the canker-worm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm has eaten--my great army which I sent among you.

acv@Joel:2:26 @ And ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied. And shall praise the name of LORD your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never be put to shame.

acv@Joel:2:27 @ And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am LORD your God, and there is none else. And my people shall never be put to shame.

acv@Joel:2:31 @ The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and day of LORD comes.

acv@Joel:2:32 @ And it shall come to pass, that whoever shall call on the name of LORD shall be saved. For in mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as LORD has said, and among the remnant those whom LORD calls.

acv@Joel:3:1 @ For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

acv@Joel:3:2 @ I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will execute judgment upon them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. And they have par

acv@Joel:3:3 @ and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

acv@Joel:3:6 @ and have sold the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem to the sons of the Grecians, that ye may remove them far from their border,

acv@Joel:3:8 @ And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they shall sell them to the men of Sheba, to a nation far off. For LORD has spoken it.

acv@Joel:3:10 @ Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears. Let the weak say, I am strong.

acv@Joel:3:11 @ Hasten ye, and come, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves together. Cause thy mighty ones to come down there, O LORD.

acv@Joel:3:12 @ Let the nations bestir themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations round about.

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

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

acv@Joel:3:16 @ And LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shall shake. But LORD will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the sons of Israel.

acv@Joel:3:17 @ So ye shall know that I am LORD your God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem shall be holy, and no strangers shall pass through her any more.

acv@Joel:3:18 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the brooks of Judah shall flow with waters. And a fountain shall come forth from the house of LORD, a

acv@Joel:3:19 @ Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the sons of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

acv@Joel:3:20 @ But Judah shall abide forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

acv@Joel:3:21 @ And I will cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed. For LORD dwells in Zion.

acv@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.

acv@Amos:1:2 @ And he said, LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem, and the pastures of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.

acv@Amos:1:3 @ Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Damascus, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.

acv@Amos:1:5 @ And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and he who holds the scepter from the house of Eden, and the people of Syria shall go into captivity to Kir, says LORD.

acv@Amos:1:6 @ Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Gaza, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they carried away captive the whole people, to deliver them up to Edom.

acv@Amos:1:8 @ And 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 shall perish, says lord LORD.

acv@Amos:1:9 @ Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Tyre, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they delivered up the whole people to Edom, and did not remember the brotherly covenant.

acv@Amos:1:11 @ Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Edom, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity. And his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath

acv@Amos:1:13 @ Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border.

acv@Amos:1:15 @ And their king shall go into captivity, he and his rulers together, says LORD.

acv@Amos:2:1 @ Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Moab, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.

acv@Amos:2:3 @ And I will cut off the judge from the midst of it, and will kill all the rulers of it with him, says LORD.

acv@Amos:2:4 @ Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Judah, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have rejected the law of LORD, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, accord

acv@Amos:2:6 @ Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have sold a righteous man for silver, and a needy man for a pair of shoes--

acv@Amos:2:7 @ those who pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek. And a man and his father go to the [same] maiden, to profane my holy name.

acv@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.

acv@Amos:2:10 @ Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

acv@Amos:2:11 @ And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not even thus, O ye sons of Israel? says LORD.

acv@Amos:2:14 @ And flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, nor shall the mighty deliver himself.

acv@Amos:2:15 @ Neither shall he stand who handles the bow. And he who is swift of foot shall not deliver [himself], nor shall he who rides the horse deliver himself.

acv@Amos:2:16 @ And he who is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, says LORD.

acv@Amos:3:1 @ Hear this word that LORD has spoken against you, O sons of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying,

acv@Amos:3:2 @ You only I have known of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will visit upon you all your iniquities.

acv@Amos:3:4 @ Will a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? Will a young lion cry out of his den, if he has taken nothing?

acv@Amos:3:5 @ Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no net is [set] for him? Shall a snare spring up from the ground, and have taken nothing at all?

acv@Amos:3:6 @ Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? Shall evil befall a city, and LORD has not done it?

acv@Amos:3:7 @ Surely lord LORD will do nothing unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

acv@Amos:3:8 @ The lion has roared, who will not fear? Lord LORD has spoken, who can but prophesy?

acv@Amos:3:10 @ For they do not know to do right, says LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

acv@Amos:3:11 @ Therefore thus says lord LORD: An adversary [shall be], even round about the land, and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be plundered.

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

acv@Amos:3:13 @ Hear ye, and testify against the house of Jacob, says lord LORD, the God of hosts.

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

acv@Amos:3:15 @ And I will smite the winter house with the summer house, and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, says LORD.

acv@Amos:4:1 @ Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink.

acv@Amos:4:2 @ Lord LORD has sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that they shall take you away with hooks, and your residue with fish-hooks.

acv@Amos:4:3 @ And ye shall go out at the breaches, each one straight before her, and ye shall cast [yourselves] into Harmon, says LORD.

acv@Amos:4:4 @ Come to Bethel and transgress, to Gilgal [and] multiply transgression. And bring your sacrifices every morning, [and] your tithes every three days.

acv@Amos:4:5 @ And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill-offerings, and publish them. For this pleases you, O ye sons of Israel, says lord LORD.

acv@Amos:4:6 @ And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places, yet ye have not returned to me, says LORD.

acv@Amos:4:8 @ So two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied. Yet ye have not returned to me, says LORD.

acv@Amos:4:9 @ I have smitten you with blasting and mildew. The multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees the palmer-worm has devoured. Yet ye have not returned to me, says LORD.

acv@Amos:4:10 @ I have sent among you the pestilence according to the manner of Egypt. I have slain your young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses, and I have made the stench of your camp to come up even into your nostrils. Yet y

acv@Amos:4:11 @ I have overthrown [cities] among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning. Yet ye have not returned to me, says LORD.

acv@Amos:4:12 @ Therefore thus I will do to thee, O Israel, [and] because I will do this to thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

acv@Amos:4:13 @ For, lo, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads upon the high places of the earth--LORD, the God of hosts, is his name.

acv@Amos:5:1 @ Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.

acv@Amos:5:2 @ The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise. She is cast down upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

acv@Amos:5:3 @ For thus says lord LORD: The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left, to the house of Israel.

acv@Amos:5:4 @ For thus says LORD to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and ye shall live.

acv@Amos:5:5 @ But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba. For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to naught.

acv@Amos:5:6 @ Seek LORD, and ye shall live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.

acv@Amos:5:7 @ Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,

acv@Amos:5:8 @ [seek him] who makes 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 upon the face of the earth (LORD is his name),

acv@Amos:5:9 @ who brings sudden destruction upon the strong, so that destruction comes upon the fortress.

acv@Amos:5:10 @ They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks uprightly.

acv@Amos:5:11 @ Inasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions of wheat from him. Ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them. Ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.

acv@Amos:5:12 @ For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins--ye who afflict the just man, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the gate [from their right].

acv@Amos:5:13 @ Therefore he who is prudent shall keep silence in such a time, for it is an evil time.

acv@Amos:5:14 @ Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live, and so LORD, the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye say.

acv@Amos:5:15 @ Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate. It may be that LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

acv@Amos:5:16 @ Therefore thus says LORD, the God of hosts, LORD: Wailing shall be in all the broad ways. And they shall say in all the streets, Alas! Alas! And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to

acv@Amos:5:17 @ And in all vineyards shall be wailing, for I will pass through the midst of thee, says LORD.

acv@Amos:5:18 @ Woe to you who desire the day of LORD! Why would ye have the day of LORD? It is darkness, and not light.

acv@Amos:5:19 @ As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

acv@Amos:5:20 @ Shall not the day of LORD be darkness, and not light, even very dark, and no brightness in it?

acv@Amos:5:22 @ Yea, though ye offer me your burnt-offerings and meal-offerings, I will not accept them, nor will I regard the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.

acv@Amos:5:23 @ Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs, for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

acv@Amos:5:25 @ Did ye bring sacrifices and offerings to me in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

acv@Amos:5:26 @ Yea, ye have borne the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god, your images which ye made to yourselves.

acv@Amos:5:27 @ Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.

acv@Amos:6:2 @ Pass ye to Calneh, and see, and from there go ye 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?

acv@Amos:6:4 @ who lay upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall,

acv@Amos:6:5 @ who sing idle songs to the sound of the viol, who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David,

acv@Amos:6:6 @ who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief oils, but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

acv@Amos:6:7 @ Therefore they shall now go captive with the first who go captive, and the revelry of those who stretched themselves shall pass away.

acv@Amos:6:8 @ Lord LORD has sworn by himself, says LORD, the God of hosts: I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces, therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is therein.

acv@Amos:6:11 @ For, behold, LORD commands, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

acv@Amos:6:12 @ Shall horses run upon the rock? Will [a man] plow [there] with oxen? That ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

acv@Amos:6:13 @ ye who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?

acv@Amos:6:14 @ For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, says LORD, the God of hosts, and they shall afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah.

acv@Amos:7:1 @ Thus lord LORD showed me: And, behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth, and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.

acv@Amos:7:2 @ And it came to pass that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O lord LORD, forgive, I beseech thee. How shall Jacob stand, for he is small?

acv@Amos:7:3 @ LORD relented concerning this. It shall not be, says LORD.

acv@Amos:7:4 @ Thus lord LORD showed me: And, behold, lord LORD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and would have eaten up the land.

acv@Amos:7:5 @ Then I said, O lord LORD, cease, I beseech thee. How shall Jacob stand, for he is small?

acv@Amos:7:6 @ LORD relented concerning this. This also shall not be, says lord LORD.

acv@Amos:7:7 @ Thus he showed me: And, behold, LORD stood beside a wall made by a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand.

acv@Amos:7:8 @ And LORD said to me, Amos, what do thou see? And I said, A plumb-line. Then 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.

acv@Amos:7:9 @ And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.

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

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

acv@Amos:7:13 @ But do not prophesy again any more at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house.

acv@Amos:7:14 @ Then Amos answered, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, nor was I a prophet's son, but I was a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees.

acv@Amos:7:15 @ And LORD took me from following the flock, and LORD said to me, Go, prophesy to my people Israel.

acv@Amos:7:16 @ Now therefore hear thou the word of LORD: Thou say, Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not drop [thy word] against the house of Isaac.

acv@Amos:7:17 @ Therefore thus says LORD: Thy wife shall be a harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line, and thou thyself shall die in a land that is unclean. And Israel shall

acv@Amos:8:1 @ Thus lord LORD showed me: And, behold, a basket of summer fruit.

acv@Amos:8:2 @ And he said, Amos, what do thou see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then LORD said to me, The end has come upon my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.

acv@Amos:8:3 @ And the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day, says lord LORD. The dead bodies shall be many. In every place they shall cast them forth with silence.

acv@Amos:8:4 @ Hear this, O ye who would swallow up a needy man, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

acv@Amos:8:5 @ saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit,

acv@Amos:8:6 @ that we may buy the poor for silver, and a needy man for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

acv@Amos:8:7 @ LORD has sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.

acv@Amos:8:8 @ Shall the land not tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells therein? Yea, it shall rise up wholly like the River, and it shall be troubled and sink again like the River of Egypt.

acv@Amos:8:9 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, says lord LORD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

acv@Amos:8:10 @ And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation. And I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head, and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a b

acv@Amos:8:11 @ Behold, the days come, says lord LORD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of LORD.

acv@Amos:8:12 @ And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east. They shall run to and fro to seek the word of LORD, and shall not find it.

acv@Amos:8:13 @ In that day the fair virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst.

acv@Amos:9:1 @ I saw LORD standing beside the altar. And he said, Smite the capitals, that the thresholds may shake, and break them in pieces on the head of all of them, and I will kill the last of them with the sword. There shall not one of them

acv@Amos:9:4 @ And though they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them. And I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

acv@Amos:9:5 @ For the Lord, LORD of hosts, [is] he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell therein shall mourn. And it shall rise up wholly like the River, and shall sink again like the River of Egypt.

acv@Amos:9:6 @ He who builds his chambers in the heavens, and has founded his vault upon the earth, he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth, LORD is his name.

acv@Amos:9:7 @ Are ye not as the sons of the Ethiopians to me, O sons of Israel? says LORD. Have I not brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

acv@Amos:9:8 @ Behold, the eyes of lord LORD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth, except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says LORD.

acv@Amos:9:9 @ For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, just as [grain] is sifted in a sieve, yet the least kernel shall not fall upon the earth.

acv@Amos:9:10 @ All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, The evil shall not overtake nor meet us.

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

acv@Amos:9:13 @ Behold, the days come, says LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him who sows seed, and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

acv@Amos:9:15 @ And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them, says LORD thy God.

acv@Obadiah:1:1 @ The vision of Obadiah. Thus says lord LORD concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, [saying], Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.

acv@Obadiah:1:4 @ Though thou mount on high as the eagle, and though thy nest be set among the stars, I will bring thee down from there, says LORD.

acv@Obadiah:1:7 @ All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee on thy way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee. [Those who eat] thy bread lay a snare under thee. There is no unde

acv@Obadiah:1:8 @ Shall I not in that day, says LORD, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?

acv@Obadiah:1:10 @ Shame shall cover thee for the violence done to thy brother Jacob, and thou shall be cut off forever.

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

acv@Obadiah:1:12 @ But look not thou on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster, and rejoice not over the sons of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor speak proudly in the day of distress.

acv@Obadiah:1:13 @ Enter not into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Yea, look not thou on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor lay ye [hands] on their substance in the day of their calamity.

acv@Obadiah:1:15 @ For the day of LORD is near upon all the nations. As thou have done, it shall be done to thee. Thy dealing shall return upon thine own head.

acv@Obadiah:1:16 @ For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually. Yea, they shall drink, and swallow down, and shall be as though they had not been.

acv@Obadiah:1:18 @ And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. And they shall burn among them, and devour them, and there shall not be any remaining to the house of Esau, for LORD has sp

acv@Obadiah:1:21 @ And saviors shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau, and the kingdom shall be LORD's.

acv@Jonah:1:1 @ Now the word of LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

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

acv@Jonah:1:3 @ But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of LORD. And he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare of it, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of LORD

acv@Jonah:1:4 @ But LORD sent out a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship was about to be broken.

acv@Jonah:1:5 @ Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man to his god. And they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it to them. But Jonah was gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he lay, and w

acv@Jonah:1:7 @ And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

acv@Jonah:1:8 @ Then they said to him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us. What is thine occupation? And from where do thou come? What is thy country, and of what people are thou?

acv@Jonah:1:9 @ And he said to them, I am a Hebrew, and I fear LORD, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.

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

acv@Jonah:1:11 @ Then they said to him, What shall we do to thee, that the sea may be calm to us? For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.

acv@Jonah:1:12 @ And he said to them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea, so shall the sea be calm to you. For I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.

acv@Jonah:1:13 @ Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get themselves back to the land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.

acv@Jonah:1:14 @ Therefore they cried to LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood. For thou, O LORD, have done as it pleased thee.

acv@Jonah:1:15 @ So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging.

acv@Jonah:1:16 @ Then the men feared LORD exceedingly, and they offered a sacrifice to LORD, and made vows.

acv@Jonah:1:17 @ And LORD prepared a great sea creature to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the sea creature three days and three nights.

acv@Jonah:2:1 @ Then Jonah prayed to LORD his God out of the sea creatures belly.

acv@Jonah:2:2 @ And he said, I called because of my affliction to LORD, and he answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, [and] thou heard my voice.

acv@Jonah:2:3 @ For thou cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas, and the flood was round about me. All thy waves and thy billows passed over me.

acv@Jonah:2:4 @ And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes. Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

acv@Jonah:2:6 @ I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth with its bars [closed] upon me forever. Yet thou have brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.

acv@Jonah:2:7 @ When my soul fainted within me, I remembered LORD. And my prayer came in to thee, into thy holy temple.

acv@Jonah:2:8 @ Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

acv@Jonah:2:9 @ But I will sacrifice to thee with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is of LORD.

acv@Jonah:2:10 @ And LORD spoke to the sea creature, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.

acv@Jonah:3:1 @ And the word of LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,

acv@Jonah:3:3 @ So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, of three days' journey.

acv@Jonah:3:4 @ And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey. And he cried out, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

acv@Jonah:3:7 @ And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed, nor drink water,

acv@Jonah:3:10 @ And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. And God relented of the evil which he said he would do to them, and he did not do it.

acv@Jonah:4:2 @ And he prayed to LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hastened to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that thou are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundan

acv@Jonah:4:3 @ Therefore now, O LORD, I beseech thee, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.

acv@Jonah:4:4 @ And LORD said, Do thou well to be angry?

acv@Jonah:4:6 @ And LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his misery. So Jonah was very glad because of the gourd.

acv@Jonah:4:7 @ But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.

acv@Jonah:4:8 @ And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live

acv@Jonah:4:9 @ And God said to Jonah, Do thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even to death.

acv@Jonah:4:10 @ And LORD said, Thou have had regard for the gourd, for which thou have not labored, nor made it grow, which came up in a night, and perished in a night.

acv@Jonah:4:11 @ And should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand men who cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?

acv@Micah:1:1 @ The word of LORD that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

acv@Micah:1:2 @ Hear, ye peoples, all of you. Hearken, O earth, and all who are in it, and let lord LORD be witness against you, LORD from his holy temple.

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

acv@Micah:1:4 @ And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be split, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.

acv@Micah:1:5 @ All this is for the transgression of Jacob, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Are they not Jerusalem?

acv@Micah:1:6 @ Therefore I will make Samaria as a heap of the field, [and] as places for planting vineyards. And I will pour down the stones of it into the valley, and I will uncover the foundations of it.

acv@Micah:1:7 @ And all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces. And all her wages shall be burned with fire, and I will lay desolate all her idols. For she has gathered them from the wages of a harlot, and to the wage of a harlot they shall r

acv@Micah:1:8 @ For this I will lament and wail. I will go stripped and naked. I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.

acv@Micah:1:9 @ For her wounds are incurable. For it has come even to Judah. it reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

acv@Micah:1:11 @ Pass away, O inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan has not come forth. The wailing of Beth-ezel shall take from you the stay of it.

acv@Micah:1:12 @ For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

acv@Micah:1:13 @ Bind the chariot to the swift steed, O inhabitant of Lachish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.

acv@Micah:1:14 @ Therefore thou shall give a parting gift to Moresheth-gath. The houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.

acv@Micah:1:15 @ I will yet bring to thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah, him who shall possess thee. The glory of Israel shall come even to Adullam.

acv@Micah:1:16 @ Make thee bald, and cut off thy hair for the sons of thy delight. Enlarge thy baldness as the vulture, for they have gone into captivity from thee.

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

acv@Micah:2:3 @ Therefore thus says LORD: Behold, I devise an evil against this family, from which ye shall not remove your necks, nor shall ye walk haughtily, for it is an evil time.

acv@Micah:2:4 @ In that day they shall take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation. [And] say, We are utterly ruined. He changes the portion of my people. How he removes [it] from me! He divides our fields to the rebelliou

acv@Micah:2:5 @ Therefore thou shall have nobody to cast the line by lot in the assembly of LORD.

acv@Micah:2:7 @ Shall it be said, O house of Jacob, Is the Spirit of LORD restricted? Are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly?

acv@Micah:2:9 @ Ye cast out the women of my people from their pleasant houses. Ye take away my glory from their young sons forever.

acv@Micah:2:10 @ Arise ye, and depart, for this is not your resting-place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.

acv@Micah:2:13 @ The breaker has gone up before them. They have broken forth and passed on to the gate, and have gone out there. And their king has passed on before them, and LORD at the head of them.

acv@Micah:3:1 @ And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know justice?

acv@Micah:3:3 @ who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

acv@Micah:3:4 @ Then they shall cry to LORD, but he will not answer them. Yea, he will hide his face from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil in their doings.

acv@Micah:3:5 @ Thus says LORD concerning the prophets who make my people to err, who bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace. And he who does not put into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

acv@Micah:3:6 @ Therefore it shall be night to you, that ye shall have no vision. And it shall be dark to you, that ye shall not divine. And the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them.

acv@Micah:3:7 @ And the seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners confounded. Yea, they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.

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

acv@Micah:3:9 @ Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.

acv@Micah:3:11 @ The heads of it judge for a bribe, and the priests of it teach for a wage, and the prophets of it divine for money. Yet they lean upon LORD, and say, Is not LORD in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us.

acv@Micah:3:12 @ Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

acv@Micah:4:1 @ But in the latter days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of LORD's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and peoples shall flow to it.

acv@Micah:4:2 @ And many nations shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of LORD, 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 shall go forth the law, an

acv@Micah:4:3 @ And he will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off. And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, nor s

acv@Micah:4:4 @ But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and none shall make them afraid. For the mouth of LORD of hosts has spoken it.

acv@Micah:4:5 @ For all the peoples walk each one in the name of his god. And we will walk in the name of LORD our God forever and ever.

acv@Micah:4:6 @ In that day, says LORD, I will assemble that which is lame, and I will gather that which is driven away, and that which I have afflicted.

acv@Micah:4:7 @ And I will make that which was lame a remnant, and that which was cast far off a strong nation. And LORD will reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth even forever.

acv@Micah:4:8 @ And thou, O tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, to thee it shall come. Yea, the former dominion shall come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

acv@Micah:4:9 @ Now why do thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in thee. Has thy counselor perished, that pangs have taken hold of thee as of a woman in travail?

acv@Micah:4:10 @ Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail. For now thou shall go forth out of the city, and shall dwell in the field, and shall come even to Babylon. There thou shall be rescued. There LORD w

acv@Micah:4:12 @ But they know not the thoughts of LORD, nor do they understand his counsel, for he has gathered them as the sheaves to the threshing-floor.

acv@Micah:4:13 @ Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for I will make thy horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass, and thou shall beat many peoples in pieces. And I will devote their gain to LORD, and their substance to LORD of the whole earth.

acv@Micah:5:2 @ But thou, Bethlehem Ephrathah, which are little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee he shall come forth to me who is to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.

acv@Micah:5:3 @ Therefore he will give them up until the time that she who travails has brought forth. Then the residue of his brothers shall return to the sons of Israel.

acv@Micah:5:4 @ And he shall stand, and shall feed [his flock] in the strength of LORD, in the majesty of the name of LORD his God, and they shall abide. For now he shall be great to the ends of the earth.

acv@Micah:5:6 @ And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances of it. And he shall deliver us from the Assyrian, when he comes into our land, and when he treads within our border.

acv@Micah:5:7 @ And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples as dew from LORD, as showers upon the grass, that tarry not for man, nor wait for the sons of men.

acv@Micah:5:8 @ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep, who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and t

acv@Micah:5:10 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, says LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and will destroy thy chariots,

acv@Micah:5:12 @ And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy hand, and thou shall have no [more] soothsayers.

acv@Micah:5:13 @ And I will cut off thy graven images and thy pillars out of the midst of thee, and thou shall no more worship the work of thy hands.

acv@Micah:6:1 @ Hear ye now what LORD says: Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

acv@Micah:6:2 @ Hear, O ye mountains, LORD's controversy, and ye enduring foundations of the earth, for LORD has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.

acv@Micah:6:4 @ For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage. And I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

acv@Micah:6:5 @ O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him. [Remember] from Shittim to Gilgal, that ye may know the righteous acts of LORD.

acv@Micah:6:6 @ Why shall I come before LORD, and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves a year old?

acv@Micah:6:7 @ Will LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

acv@Micah:6:8 @ He has shown thee, O man, what is good. And what does LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

acv@Micah:6:9 @ The voice of LORD cries to the city, and [the man of] wisdom will see thy name. Hear ye the rod, and who has appointed it.

acv@Micah:6:12 @ For the rich men of it are full of violence, and the inhabitants of it have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

acv@Micah:6:13 @ Therefore I also have smitten thee with a grievous wound, I have made thee desolate because of thy sins.

acv@Micah:6:14 @ Thou shall eat, but not be satisfied, and thy humiliation shall be in the midst of thee. And thou shall put away, but shall not save, and that which thou save I will give up to the sword.

acv@Micah:6:16 @ For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels, that I may make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing. And ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

acv@Micah:7:1 @ Woe is me! For I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat. My soul desires the first ripe fig.

acv@Micah:7:2 @ The devout man has perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men. They all lay in wait for blood. They hunt every man his brother with a net.

acv@Micah:7:3 @ Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler asks, and the judge [is ready] for a bribe. And the great man, he utters the evil desire of his soul. Thus they weave it together.

acv@Micah:7:4 @ The best of them is as a brier. The most upright is [worse] than a thorn hedge. The day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, has come. Now shall be their perplexity.

acv@Micah:7:5 @ Trust ye not in a neighbor. Put ye not confidence in a friend. Keep the doors of thy mouth from her who lays in thy bosom.

acv@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.

acv@Micah:7:7 @ But as for me, I will look to LORD. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

acv@Micah:7:8 @ Rejoice not against me, O my enemy. When I fall, I shall arise. When I sit in darkness, LORD will be a light to me.

acv@Micah:7:9 @ I will bear the indignation of LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light, [and] I shall behold his righteousness.

acv@Micah:7:10 @ Then my enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her who said to me, Where is LORD thy God? My eyes shall see [my desire] upon her. Now she shall be trodden down as the mire of the streets.

acv@Micah:7:11 @ A day for building thy walls! In that day the decree shall be far removed.

acv@Micah:7:13 @ Yet the land shall be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

acv@Micah:7:14 @ Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy heritage, which dwell solitarily in the forest in the midst of Carmel. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

acv@Micah:7:15 @ As in the days of thy coming forth out of the land of Egypt I will show marvelous things to them.

acv@Micah:7:17 @ They shall lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their close places. They shall come with fear to LORD our God, and shall be afraid because of thee.

acv@Micah:7:18 @ Who is a God like to thee, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

acv@Micah:7:20 @ Thou will perform the truth to Jacob, [and] the loving kindness to Abraham, which thou have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

acv@Nahum:1:2 @ LORD is a jealous God and avenges. LORD avenges and is full of wrath. LORD takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserves [wrath] for his enemies.

acv@Nahum:1:3 @ LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means clear [the guilty]. LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

acv@Nahum:1:5 @ The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is up heaved at his presence. Yea, the world, and all who dwell therein.

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

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

acv@Nahum:1:9 @ What do ye devise against LORD? He will make a full end. Affliction shall not rise up the second time.

acv@Nahum:1:10 @ For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

acv@Nahum:1:11 @ He has gone forth out of thee, who devises evil against LORD, who counsels wickedness.

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

acv@Nahum:1:14 @ And LORD has given commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown. Out of the house of thy gods I will cut off the graven image and the molten image. I will make thy grave, for thou are vile.

acv@Nahum:1:15 @ Behold, upon the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep thy feasts, O Judah. Perform thy vows, for the wicked one shall no more pass through thee. He is utterly cut off.

acv@Nahum:2:1 @ He who dashes in pieces has come up against thee. Keep the fortress. Watch the way. Make thy loins strong. Fortify thy power mightily.

acv@Nahum:2:2 @ For LORD restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel, for the emptiers have emptied them out, and destroyed their vine-branches.

acv@Nahum:2:4 @ The chariots rage in the streets; they rush to and fro in the broad ways. The appearance of them is like torches. They run like the lightnings.

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

acv@Nahum:2:12 @ The lion tore in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with prey.

acv@Nahum:2:13 @ Behold, I am against thee, says LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions. And I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be hear

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

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

acv@Nahum:3:4 @ because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, who sells nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

acv@Nahum:3:5 @ Behold, I am against thee, says LORD of hosts, and I will uncover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will show the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.

acv@Nahum:3:7 @ And it shall come to pass, that all those who look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste. Who will bemoan her? From where shall I seek comforters for thee?

acv@Nahum:3:10 @ Yet she was carried away. She went into captivity. Her young sons also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets. And they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

acv@Nahum:3:12 @ All thy fortresses shall be [like] fig trees with the first ripe figs. If they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

acv@Nahum:3:14 @ Draw thee water for the siege. Strengthen thy fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make strong the brick kiln.

acv@Nahum:3:15 @ There the fire shall devour thee. The sword shall cut thee off. It shall devour thee like the canker-worm. Make thyself many as the canker-worm. Make thyself many as the locust.

acv@Nahum:3:16 @ Thou have multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven. The canker-worm ravages, and flees away.

acv@Nahum:3:19 @ There is no assuaging of thy hurt. Thy wound is grievous. All who hear the report of thee clap their hands over thee, for upon whom has not thy wickedness passed continually?

acv@Habakkuk:1:2 @ O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou will not hear? I cry out to thee of violence, and thou will not save.

acv@Habakkuk:1:3 @ Why do thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? For destruction and violence are before me, and there is strife, and contention rises up.

acv@Habakkuk:1:4 @ Therefore the law is slacked, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked man surrounds the righteous man, therefore justice goes forth perverted.

acv@Habakkuk:1:5 @ Behold ye, and look, and wonder marvelously. For I am working a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you.

acv@Habakkuk:1:6 @ For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs.

acv@Habakkuk:1:8 @ Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. And their horsemen press proudly on. Yea, their horsemen come from far. They fly as an eagle that hastens to devour.

acv@Habakkuk:1:9 @ They come all of them for violence. The set of their faces is forwards, and they gather captives as the sand.

acv@Habakkuk:1:10 @ Yea, he scoffs at kings, and rulers are a derision to him. He derides every stronghold, for he heaps up dust, and takes it.

acv@Habakkuk:1:12 @ Are not thou from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, thou have ordained him for judgment, and thou, O Rock, have established him for correction.

acv@Habakkuk:1:13 @ Thou who are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and who cannot look on perverseness, why do thou look upon those who deal treacherously, and hold thy peace when the wicked man swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

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

acv@Habakkuk:1:16 @ Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his drag, because by them his portion is fat, and his food plentiful.

acv@Habakkuk:1:17 @ Shall he therefore empty his net, and not spare to kill the nations continually?

acv@Habakkuk:2:1 @ I will stand upon my watch, and set myself upon the tower, and will look forth to see what he will speak with me, and what I shall answer concerning my complaint.

acv@Habakkuk:2:2 @ And LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run who reads it.

acv@Habakkuk:2:3 @ For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hastens toward the end, and shall not lay. Though it tarry, wait for it, because it will surely come. It will not delay.

acv@Habakkuk:2:5 @ Yea, moreover, wine is treacherous.) [He is] a haughty man, who does not keep at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to him all nations, and heaps to him all peoples.

acv@Habakkuk:2:7 @ Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee. And thou shall be for booty to them?

acv@Habakkuk:2:8 @ Because thou have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder thee, because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell therein.

acv@Habakkuk: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!

acv@Habakkuk:2:11 @ For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

acv@Habakkuk:2:13 @ Behold, is it not of LORD of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

acv@Habakkuk:2:14 @ For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

acv@Habakkuk:2:15 @ Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, who adds thy venom, and also makes him drunken, that thou may look on their nakedness!

acv@Habakkuk:2:16 @ Thou are filled with shame, and not glory. Drink thou also, and be as one uncircumcised. The cup of LORD's right hand shall come around to thee, and foul shame shall be upon thy glory.

acv@Habakkuk:2:17 @ For the violence done to Lebanon shall cover thee and the plunder of the beasts ([which] made them afraid), because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell therein.

acv@Habakkuk:2:18 @ What profits the graven image, that the maker of it has engraved it, the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make dumb idols?

acv@Habakkuk:2:20 @ But LORD is in his holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before him.

acv@Habakkuk:3:2 @ O LORD, I have heard the report of thee, and am afraid. O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years make it known. In wrath remember mercy.

acv@Habakkuk:3:3 @ God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.

acv@Habakkuk:3:5 @ Before him went the pestilence. And fiery bolts went forth at his feet.

acv@Habakkuk:3:8 @ Was LORD displeased with the rivers? Was thine anger against the rivers, or thy wrath against the sea, that thou rode upon thy horses, upon thy chariots of salvation?

acv@Habakkuk:3:9 @ Thy bow was made quite bare. The oaths to the tribes were a [sure] word. Selah. Thou split the earth with rivers.

acv@Habakkuk:3:13 @ Thou went forth for the salvation of thy people, for the salvation of thine anointed. Thou wound the head out of the house of the wicked man, laying bare the foundation even to the neck. Selah.

acv@Habakkuk:3:14 @ Thou pierced with his own staves the head of his warriors. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me. Their rejoicing was as to devour the poor man secretly.

acv@Habakkuk:3:15 @ Thou walked through the sea with thy horses, the heap of mighty waters.

acv@Habakkuk:3:16 @ I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

acv@Habakkuk:3:17 @ For though the fig tree shall not flourish, nor shall fruit be in the vines, the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food. The flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls.

acv@Habakkuk:3:18 @ Yet I will rejoice in LORD. I will joy in the God of my salvation.

acv@Habakkuk:3:19 @ LORD, the Lord, is my strength. And he makes my feet like hinds' [feet], and will make me to walk upon my high places.

acv@Zephaniah:1:1 @ The word of LORD which came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.

acv@Zephaniah:1:2 @ I will utterly consume all things from off the face of the ground, says LORD.

acv@Zephaniah:1:3 @ I will consume man and beast. I will consume the birds of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with the wicked. And I will cut off man from off the face of the ground, says LORD.

acv@Zephaniah:1:5 @ and those who worship the host of heaven upon the housetops, and those who worship, who swear to LORD and swear by Malcam,

acv@Zephaniah:1:6 @ and those who are turned back from following LORD, and those who have not sought LORD, nor inquired after him.

acv@Zephaniah:1:7 @ Hold thy peace at the presence of lord LORD, for the day of LORD is at hand. For LORD has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.

acv@Zephaniah:1:8 @ And it shall come to pass in the day of LORD's sacrifice, that I will punish the rulers, and the king's sons, and all such as are clothed with foreign apparel.

acv@Zephaniah:1:10 @ And in that day, says LORD, there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

acv@Zephaniah:1:11 @ Wail, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan are undone. All those who were laden with silver are cut off.

acv@Zephaniah:1:12 @ And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their lees, who say in their heart, LORD will not do good, nor will he do evil.

acv@Zephaniah:1:14 @ The great day of LORD is near. It is near and hastens greatly, the voice of the day of LORD. The mighty man cries there bitterly.

acv@Zephaniah:1:16 @ a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.

acv@Zephaniah:1:17 @ And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against LORD, and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as dung.

acv@Zephaniah:1:18 @ Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of LORD's wrath, but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy. For he will make an end, yea, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in

acv@Zephaniah:2:2 @ Before the decree bring forth, [before] the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of LORD comes upon you, before the day of LORD's anger comes upon you.

acv@Zephaniah:2:3 @ Seek ye LORD, all ye meek of the earth who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness, seek meekness. It may be ye will be hid in the day of LORD's anger.

acv@Zephaniah:2:4 @ For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They shall drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

acv@Zephaniah:2:5 @ Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of LORD is against you, O Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

acv@Zephaniah:2:6 @ And the seacoast shall be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.

acv@Zephaniah:2:7 @ And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They shall feed [their flocks] upon it. In the houses of Ashkelon they shall lay down in the evening. For LORD their God will visit them, and bring back their captivity.

acv@Zephaniah:2:8 @ I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the sons of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

acv@Zephaniah:2:9 @ Therefore as I live, says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The residue of my people shall make a

acv@Zephaniah:2:10 @ They shall have this for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of LORD of hosts.

acv@Zephaniah:2:11 @ LORD will be terrible to them, for he will famish all the gods of the earth. And men shall worship him, everyone from his place, even all the isles of the nations.

acv@Zephaniah:2:12 @ Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

acv@Zephaniah:2:13 @ And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like the wilderness.

acv@Zephaniah:2:14 @ And herds shall lay down in the midst of her. All the beasts of the nations, both the pelican and the porcupine shall lodge in the capitals of it. [Their] voice shall sing in the windows. Desolation shall be in the thresholds. For

acv@Zephaniah:2:15 @ This is the joyous city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me. How she has become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

acv@Zephaniah:3:2 @ She obeyed not the voice. She received not correction. She trusted not in LORD. She did not draw near to her God.

acv@Zephaniah:3:3 @ Her rulers in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing till the morrow.

acv@Zephaniah:3:5 @ LORD in the midst of her is righteous. He will not do iniquity. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He does not fail, but the unjust man knows no shame.

acv@Zephaniah:3:7 @ I said, Only fear thou me. Receive correction, so her dwelling shall not be cut off, [according to] all that I have appointed concerning her. But they rose early and corrupted all their doings.

acv@Zephaniah:3:8 @ Therefore wait ye for me, says LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey. For my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them my indignation, even all my fierce anger. For all the

acv@Zephaniah:3:9 @ For then I will turn to the peoples of a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of LORD, to serve him with one consent.

acv@Zephaniah:3:11 @ In that day thou shall not be put to shame for all thy doings, in which thou have transgressed against me. For then I will take away out of the midst of thee those who rejoice in thy pride, and thou shall no more be haughty in my h

acv@Zephaniah:3:12 @ But I will leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall take refuge in the name of LORD.

acv@Zephaniah:3:13 @ The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies, nor shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth. For they shall feed and lay down, and none shall make them afraid.

acv@Zephaniah:3:15 @ LORD has taken away thy judgments. He has cast out thine enemy. The King of Israel, even LORD, is in the midst of thee. Thou shall not fear evil any more.

acv@Zephaniah:3:17 @ LORD thy God is in the midst of thee, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over thee with joy. He will rest in his love. He will joy over thee with singing.

acv@Zephaniah:3:18 @ I will gather those who sorrow for the solemn assembly, who were of thee, [to whom] the burden upon her was a reproach.

acv@Zephaniah:3:20 @ At that time I will bring you in, and at that time I will gather you. For I will make you a name and a praise among all the peoples of the earth when I bring back your captivity before your eyes, says LORD.

acv@Haggai:1:1 @ In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the word of LORD came by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the hi

acv@Haggai:1:2 @ Thus speaks LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, It is not the time [for us] to come, the time for LORD's house to be built.

acv@Haggai:1:3 @ Then the word of LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying,

acv@Haggai:1:4 @ Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lays waste?

acv@Haggai:1:5 @ Now therefore thus says LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

acv@Haggai:1:7 @ Thus says LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

acv@Haggai:1:8 @ Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house. And I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, says LORD.

acv@Haggai:1:9 @ Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little, and when ye brought it home, I blew upon it. Why? says LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lays waste while ye run each man to his own house.

acv@Haggai:1:10 @ Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

acv@Haggai:1:11 @ And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground brings forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of th

acv@Haggai:1:12 @ Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as LORD their God had sent him. An

acv@Haggai:1:13 @ Then Haggai, LORD's messenger, spoke in LORD's message to the people, saying, I am with you, says LORD.

acv@Haggai:1:14 @ And LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and did work on th

acv@Haggai:2:1 @ In the seventh [month], in the twenty-first [day] of the month, the word of LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying,

acv@Haggai:2:2 @ Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,

acv@Haggai:2:3 @ Who is left among you that saw this house in its former glory? And how do ye see it now? Is it not in your eyes as nothing?

acv@Haggai:2:4 @ Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, says LORD, and be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and be strong, all ye people of the land, says LORD, and work. For I am with you, says LORD of hosts,

acv@Haggai:2:5 @ [according to] the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, and my Spirit abode among you. Fear ye not.

acv@Haggai:2:6 @ For thus says LORD of hosts: Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land.

acv@Haggai:2:7 @ And I will shake all nations, and the precious things of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, says LORD of hosts.

acv@Haggai:2:8 @ The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says LORD of hosts.

acv@Haggai:2:9 @ The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says LORD of hosts, and in this place I will give peace, says LORD of hosts.

acv@Haggai:2:10 @ In the twenty-fourth [day] of the ninth [month], in the second year of Darius, the word of LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying,

acv@Haggai:2:11 @ Thus says LORD of hosts: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

acv@Haggai:2:12 @ If a man bears holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt touches bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it become holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

acv@Haggai:2:14 @ Then Haggai answered and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, says LORD, and so is every work of their hands. And that which they offer there is unclean.

acv@Haggai:2:15 @ And now, I pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of LORD.

acv@Haggai:2:17 @ I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands, yet ye [turned] not to me, says LORD.

acv@Haggai:2:18 @ Consider, I pray you, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth [month], since the day that the foundation of LORD's temple was laid, consider it.

acv@Haggai:2:19 @ Is the seed yet in the barn? Yea, the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not brought forth. From this day I will bless [you].

acv@Haggai:2:20 @ And the word of LORD came the second time to Haggai in the twenty-fourth [day] of the month, saying,

acv@Haggai:2:21 @ Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth.

acv@Haggai:2:22 @ And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. And I will overthrow the chariots, and those who ride in them. And the horses and their riders shall come down, each one b

acv@Haggai:2:23 @ In that day, says LORD of hosts, I will take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, says LORD, and will make thee as a signet. For I have chosen thee, says LORD of hosts.

acv@Zechariah:1:1 @ In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of LORD came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,

acv@Zechariah:1:2 @ LORD was greatly displeased with your fathers.

acv@Zechariah:1:3 @ Therefore say thou to them, Thus says LORD of hosts: Return to me, says LORD of hosts, and I will return to you, says LORD of hosts.

acv@Zechariah:1:4 @ Be ye not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus says LORD of hosts: Return ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings, but they did not hear, nor hearken to me, says LORD.

acv@Zechariah:1:5 @ Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

acv@Zechariah:1:6 @ But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? And they turned and said, Like as LORD of hosts thought to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our doings,

acv@Zechariah:1:7 @ Upon the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of LORD came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,

acv@Zechariah:1:8 @ I saw in the night, and, behold, a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom. And behind him there were horses, red, sorrel, and white.

acv@Zechariah:1:9 @ Then I said, O my lord, what are these? And the [heavenly] agent who talked with me said to me, I will show thee what these are.

acv@Zechariah:1:10 @ And the man who stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom LORD has sent to walk to and fro through the earth.

acv@Zechariah:1:11 @ And they answered the agent of LORD who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sits still, and is at rest.

acv@Zechariah:1:12 @ Then the agent of LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long will thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou have had indignation these seventy years?

acv@Zechariah:1:13 @ And LORD answered the agent who talked with me with good words, comforting words.

acv@Zechariah:1:14 @ So the [heavenly] agent who talked with me said to me, Cry thou, saying, Thus says LORD of hosts: I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

acv@Zechariah:1:15 @ And I am very greatly displeased with the nations that are at ease. For I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.

acv@Zechariah:1:16 @ Therefore thus says LORD: I have returned to Jerusalem with mercies. My house shall be built in it, says LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem.

acv@Zechariah:1:17 @ Cry yet again, saying, Thus says LORD of hosts: My cities shall yet overflow with prosperity, and LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.

acv@Zechariah:1:18 @ And I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, four horns.

acv@Zechariah:1:19 @ And I said to the [heavenly] agent who talked with me, What are these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.

acv@Zechariah:1:20 @ And LORD showed me four smiths.

acv@Zechariah:1:21 @ Then I said, What are these coming to do? And he spoke, saying, These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head. But these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted

acv@Zechariah:2:3 @ And, behold, the [heavenly] agent who talked with me went forth. And another [heavenly] agent went out to meet him,

acv@Zechariah:2:5 @ For I, says LORD, will be to her a wall of fire round about, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.

acv@Zechariah:2:6 @ Ho, ho, flee from the land of the north, says LORD. For I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, says LORD.

acv@Zechariah:2:8 @ For thus says LORD of hosts: After glory he has sent me to the nations which plundered you. For he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

acv@Zechariah:2:9 @ For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall be a spoil to those who served them. And ye shall know that LORD of hosts has sent me.

acv@Zechariah:2:10 @ Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, says LORD.

acv@Zechariah:2:11 @ And many nations shall join themselves to LORD in that day, and shall be my people, and I will dwell in the midst of thee. And thou shall know that LORD of hosts has sent me to thee.

acv@Zechariah:2:12 @ And LORD shall inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.

acv@Zechariah:2:13 @ Be silent, all flesh, before LORD, for he has arisen out of his holy habitation.

acv@Zechariah:3:1 @ And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the agent of LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.

acv@Zechariah:3:2 @ And LORD said to Satan, LORD rebuke thee, O Satan. Yea, LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee. Is this not a brand plucked out of the fire?

acv@Zechariah:3:3 @ Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the [heavenly] agent.

acv@Zechariah:3:4 @ And he answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, Take the filthy garments from off him. And to him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with rich apparel.

acv@Zechariah:3:5 @ And I said, Let them set a clean miter upon his head. So they set a clean miter upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the agent of LORD was standing by.

acv@Zechariah:3:6 @ And the agent of LORD testified to Joshua, saying,

acv@Zechariah:3:7 @ Thus says LORD of hosts: If thou will walk in my ways, and if thou will keep my charge, then thou also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give thee a place of access among these who stand by.

acv@Zechariah:3:8 @ Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou and thy fellows who sit before thee, for they are men who are a sign. For, behold, I will bring forth my servant the Branch.

acv@Zechariah:3:9 @ For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua. Upon one stone are seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave the graving of it, says LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

acv@Zechariah:3:10 @ In that day, says LORD of hosts, ye shall invite each man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.

acv@Zechariah:4:4 @ And I answered and spoke to the [heavenly] agent who talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?

acv@Zechariah:4:5 @ Then the [heavenly] agent who talked with me answered and said to me, Do thou not know what these are? And I said, No, my lord.

acv@Zechariah:4:6 @ Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the word of LORD to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says LORD of hosts.

acv@Zechariah:4:7 @ Who are thou, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel [thou shall become] a plain, and he shall bring forth the top stone with shoutings of Grace, grace, to it.

acv@Zechariah:4:8 @ Moreover the word of LORD came to me, saying,

acv@Zechariah:4:9 @ The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands shall also finish it. And thou shall know that LORD of hosts has sent me to you.

acv@Zechariah:4:10 @ For who has despised the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel, the eyes of LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.

acv@Zechariah:4:13 @ And he answered me and said, Do thou not know what these are? And I said, No, my lord.

acv@Zechariah:4:14 @ Then he said, These are the two anointed ones, who stand by LORD of the whole earth.

acv@Zechariah:5:3 @ Then he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cut off on the one side according to it, and everyone who swears shall be cut off on the other side according t

acv@Zechariah:5:4 @ I will cause it to go forth, says LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it shall abide in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with the

acv@Zechariah:5:5 @ Then the [heavenly] agent who talked with me went forth, and said to me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what this is that goes forth.

acv@Zechariah:5:6 @ And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah that goes forth. He said moreover, This is their appearance in all the land

acv@Zechariah:5:9 @ Then I lifted up my eyes, and looked. And, behold, there came forth two women, and the wind was in their wings. Now they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah between earth and heaven.

acv@Zechariah:6:2 @ In the first chariot were red horses, and in the second chariot black horses,

acv@Zechariah:6:3 @ and in the third chariot white horses, and in the fourth chariot strong grizzled horses.

acv@Zechariah:6:4 @ Then I answered and said to the [heavenly] agent who talked with me, What are these, my lord?

acv@Zechariah:6:5 @ And the [heavenly] agent answered and said to me, These are the four winds of heaven, which go forth from standing before LORD of all the earth.

acv@Zechariah:6:6 @ [The chariot] in which are the black horses goes forth toward the north country, and the white went forth after them, and the grizzled went forth toward the south country.

acv@Zechariah:6:7 @ And the strong ones went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth. And he said, Get you from here. Walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.

acv@Zechariah:6:8 @ Then he cried to me, and spoke to me, saying, Behold, those who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.

acv@Zechariah:6:9 @ And the word of LORD came to me, saying,

acv@Zechariah:6:12 @ And speak to him, saying, Thus speaks LORD of hosts, saying, Behold, the man whose name is the Branch. And he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of LORD,

acv@Zechariah:6:13 @ even he shall build the temple of LORD. And he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne. And he shall be a priest upon his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

acv@Zechariah:6:14 @ And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of LORD.

acv@Zechariah:6:15 @ And those who are far off shall come and build in the temple of LORD. And ye shall know that LORD of hosts has sent me to you. And [this] shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of LORD your God.

acv@Zechariah:7:1 @ And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of LORD came to Zechariah in the fourth [day] of the ninth month, even in Chislev.

acv@Zechariah:7:2 @ Now [those of] Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to entreat the favor of LORD,

acv@Zechariah:7:3 @ [and] to speak to the priests of the house of LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?

acv@Zechariah:7:4 @ Then the word of LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

acv@Zechariah:7:6 @ And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do ye not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

acv@Zechariah:7:7 @ [Should ye] not [hear] the words which LORD cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?

acv@Zechariah:7:8 @ And the word of LORD came to Zechariah, saying,

acv@Zechariah:7:9 @ Thus LORD of hosts has spoken, saying, Execute TRUE justice, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

acv@Zechariah:7:10 @ And do not oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor man. And let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.

acv@Zechariah:7:12 @ Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which LORD of hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from LORD of hosts.

acv@Zechariah:7:13 @ And it has come to pass that, as he cried, and they would not hear, so they shall cry, and I will not hear, said LORD of hosts.

acv@Zechariah:7:14 @ But I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned. For they laid the pleasant land desolate.

acv@Zechariah:8:1 @ And the word of LORD of hosts came [to me], saying,

acv@Zechariah:8:2 @ Thus says LORD of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.

acv@Zechariah:8:3 @ Thus says LORD: I am returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. And Jerusalem shall be called The city of truth, and the mountain of LORD of hosts, The holy mountain.

acv@Zechariah:8:4 @ Thus says LORD of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

acv@Zechariah:8:6 @ Thus says LORD of hosts: If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes? says LORD of hosts.

acv@Zechariah:8:7 @ Thus says LORD of hosts: Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country.

acv@Zechariah:8:9 @ Thus says LORD of hosts: Let your hands be strong, ye who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of LORD of hosts was laid, even the temple, that it might

acv@Zechariah:8:10 @ For before those days there was no wage for man, nor any wage for beast, nor was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men each one against his neighbor.

acv@Zechariah:8:11 @ But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days, says LORD of hosts.

acv@Zechariah:8:12 @ For [there shall be] the seed of peace. The vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its increase, and the heavens shall give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.

acv@Zechariah:8:14 @ For thus says LORD of hosts: As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, says LORD of hosts, and I did not relent,

acv@Zechariah:8:16 @ These are the things that ye shall do: Speak ye every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates.

acv@Zechariah:8:17 @ And let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no FALSE oath. For all these are things that I hate, says LORD.

acv@Zechariah:8:18 @ And the word of LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

acv@Zechariah:8:19 @ Thus says LORD of hosts: The fast of the fourth [month], and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah, joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth

acv@Zechariah:8:20 @ Thus says LORD of hosts: Peoples shall yet come, and the inhabitants of many cities.

acv@Zechariah:8:21 @ And the inhabitants of one [city] shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of LORD, and to seek LORD of hosts. I will go also.

acv@Zechariah:8:22 @ Yea, many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of LORD.

acv@Zechariah:8:23 @ Thus says LORD of hosts: In those days, ten men shall take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they shall take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.

acv@Zechariah:9:1 @ The burden of the word of LORD upon the land of Hadrach, and Damascus its resting-place (for the eye of man and of all the tribes of Israel is toward LORD),

acv@Zechariah:9:2 @ and also Hamath, which borders on it, Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.

acv@Zechariah:9:4 @ Behold, LORD will dispossess her, and he will smite her power in the sea, and she shall be devoured with fire.

acv@Zechariah:9:5 @ Ashkelon shall see it, and fear, Gaza also, and shall be greatly pained, and Ekron, for her expectation shall be put to shame. And the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.

acv@Zechariah:9:7 @ And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth. And he also shall be a remnant for our God, and he shall be as a chieftain in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.

acv@Zechariah:9:8 @ And I will encamp the army around my house, that none pass through or return, and no oppressor shall pass through them any more. For now I have seen with my eyes.

acv@Zechariah:9:10 @ And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off. And he shall speak peace to the nations. And his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of t

acv@Zechariah:9:11 @ As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free thy prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

acv@Zechariah:9:13 @ For I have bent Judah for me. I have filled the bow with Ephraim. And I will stir up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and will make thee as the sword of a mighty man.

acv@Zechariah:9:14 @ And LORD shall be seen over them. And his arrow shall go forth as the lightning. And lord LORD will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.

acv@Zechariah:9:15 @ LORD of hosts will defend them. And they shall devour, and shall tread down the sling-stones. And they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine, and they shall be filled like bowls, like the corners of the altar.

acv@Zechariah:9:16 @ And LORD their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people, [as] for the stones of a crown, lifted on high over his land.

acv@Zechariah:9:17 @ For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

acv@Zechariah:10:1 @ Ask ye of LORD rain in the time of the latter rain, [even of] LORD who makes lightnings, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone grass in the field.

acv@Zechariah:10:2 @ For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and they have told FALSE dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.

acv@Zechariah:10:3 @ My anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the he-goats. For LORD of hosts has visited his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them as his goodly horse in the battle.

acv@Zechariah:10:4 @ From him shall come forth the corner-stone, from him the nail, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler together.

acv@Zechariah:10:5 @ And they shall be as mighty men, treading down [their enemies] in the mire of the streets in the battle. And they shall fight, because LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.

acv@Zechariah:10:6 @ And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back. For I have mercy upon them, and they shall be as though I had not cast them off. For I am LORD their God, and I will hear th

acv@Zechariah:10:7 @ And Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine. Yea, their sons shall see it, and rejoice. Their heart shall be glad in LORD.

acv@Zechariah:10:8 @ I will whistle for them, and gather them. For I have redeemed them, and they shall increase as they have increased.

acv@Zechariah:10:10 @ I will also bring them again out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria. And I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon, and [until space] shall not be found for them.

acv@Zechariah:10:12 @ And I will strengthen them in LORD, and they shall walk up and down in his name, says LORD.

acv@Zechariah:11:1 @ Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.

acv@Zechariah:11:2 @ Wail, O fir tree, for the cedar is fallen, because the fine ones are destroyed. Wail, O ye oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down.

acv@Zechariah:11:3 @ A voice of the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is destroyed. A voice of the roaring of young lions, for the pride of the Jordan is laid waste.

acv@Zechariah:11:4 @ Thus said LORD my God: Feed the flock of slaughter,

acv@Zechariah:11:5 @ whose possessors kill them, and hold themselves not guilty. And those who sell them say, Blessed be LORD, for I am rich, and their own shepherds pity them not.

acv@Zechariah:11:6 @ For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, says LORD. But, lo, I will deliver the men each one into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king. And they shall smite the land, and I will not deliver them out of the

acv@Zechariah:11:7 @ So I fed the flock of slaughter, truly the poor of the flock. And I took to me two staves, the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands, and I fed the flock.

acv@Zechariah:11:8 @ And I cut off the three shepherds in one month, for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

acv@Zechariah:11:11 @ And it was broken in that day, and thus the poor of the flock who gave heed to me knew that it was the word of LORD.

acv@Zechariah:11:12 @ And I said to them, If ye think good, give me my wage, and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my wage thirty [pieces] of silver.

acv@Zechariah:11:13 @ And LORD said to me, Cast it to the potter, the good price that I was valued by them. And I took the thirty [pieces] of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of LORD.

acv@Zechariah:11:15 @ And LORD said to me, Take to thee yet again the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

acv@Zechariah:11:16 @ For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, nor will he seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound, but he will eat the flesh of the fat,

acv@Zechariah:11:17 @ Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye. His arm shall be entirely dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

acv@Zechariah:12:1 @ The burden of the word of LORD concerning Israel. [Thus] says LORD, who stretches forth the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him:

acv@Zechariah:12:3 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it shall be severely wounded. And all the nations of the earth shall be gathered together agai

acv@Zechariah:12:4 @ In that day, says LORD, I will smite every horse with terror, and his rider with madness. And I will open my eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the peoples with blindness.

acv@Zechariah:12:5 @ And the chieftains of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in LORD of hosts their God.

acv@Zechariah:12:6 @ In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves. And they shall devour all the peoples round about, on the right hand and on the left, and Jerusalem shall yet ag

acv@Zechariah:12:7 @ LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.

acv@Zechariah:12:8 @ In that day LORD shall defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And he who is feeble among them at that day shall be as David, and the house of David shall be as God, as the agent of LORD before them.

acv@Zechariah:12:10 @ And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication. And they shall look to me whom they have pierced. And they shall mourn for him, as [a man] mourns for his only

acv@Zechariah:13:1 @ In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.

acv@Zechariah:13:2 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, says LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered. And I will also cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of t

acv@Zechariah:13:3 @ And it shall come to pass that, when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother who begot him shall say to him, Thou shall not live, for thou speak lies in the name of LORD. And his father and his mother who begot him s

acv@Zechariah:13:4 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed each one of his vision, when he prophesies, nor shall they wear a hairy mantle to deceive.

acv@Zechariah:13:5 @ But he shall say, I am no prophet. I am a tiller of the ground, for I have been made a bondman from my youth.

acv@Zechariah:13:7 @ Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is my companion, says LORD of hosts. Smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. And I will turn my hand upon the little ones.

acv@Zechariah:13:8 @ And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, says LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die, but the third shall be left in it.

acv@Zechariah:13:9 @ And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, It is my people, and they shall say, LORD i

acv@Zechariah:14:1 @ Behold, a day of LORD comes when thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

acv@Zechariah:14:2 @ For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle. And the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished, and half of the city shall go forth into captivity. And the residue of the people shall not be c

acv@Zechariah:14:3 @ Then LORD shall go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

acv@Zechariah:14:4 @ And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east. And the mount of Olives shall be split in the midst of it toward the east and toward the west, a very great valley. And half of t

acv@Zechariah:14:5 @ And ye shall flee by the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel. Yea, ye shall flee, just as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. And LORD my God shall come, a

acv@Zechariah:14:7 @ But it shall be one day which is known to LORD, not day, and not night. But it shall come to pass, that at evening time there shall be light.

acv@Zechariah:14:9 @ And LORD shall be King over all the earth. In that day LORD shall be one, and his name one.

acv@Zechariah:14:10 @ All the land shall be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. And she shall be lifted up, and shall dwell in her place, from Benjamin's gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tow

acv@Zechariah:14:11 @ And men shall dwell therein, and there shall be no more curse, but Jerusalem shall dwell safely.

acv@Zechariah:14:12 @ And this shall be the plague with which LORD will smite all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their sockets, and the

acv@Zechariah:14:13 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from LORD shall be among them, and they shall lay hold each one on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor.

acv@Zechariah:14:15 @ And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the donkey, and of all the beasts that shall be in those camps, as that plague.

acv@Zechariah:14:16 @ And it shall come to pass, that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

acv@Zechariah:14:17 @ And it shall be, that of the families of the earth he who does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, LORD of hosts, upon them there shall be no rain.

acv@Zechariah:14:18 @ And if the family of Egypt does not go up, and does not come, that there shall be the plague with which LORD will smite the nations that go not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

acv@Zechariah:14:20 @ In that day there shall be upon the bells of the horses, HOLY TO LORD, and the pots in LORD's house shall be like the bowls before the altar.

acv@Zechariah:14:21 @ Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holy to LORD of hosts. And all those who sacrifice shall come and take of them, and boil in it. And in that day there shall be no more a Canaanite in the house of LORD of hosts.

acv@Malachi:1:1 @ The burden of the word of LORD to Israel by Malachi.

acv@Malachi:1:2 @ I have loved you, says LORD. Yet ye say, How have thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother, says LORD. Yet I loved Jacob,

acv@Malachi:1:3 @ but Esau I regarded inferior, and made his mountains a desolation, and [gave] his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.

acv@Malachi:1:4 @ Whereas Edom says, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places, thus says LORD of hosts: They shall build, but I will throw down, and men shall call them the border of wickedness, and the people against whom L

acv@Malachi:1:5 @ And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, LORD be magnified beyond the border of Israel.

acv@Malachi:1:6 @ A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? says LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. And ye say, How have we despised thy na

acv@Malachi:1:7 @ Ye offer polluted bread upon my altar. And ye say, How have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of LORD is contemptible.

acv@Malachi:1:8 @ And when ye offer the blind for sacrifice, [ye say,] It is no evil! and when ye offer the lame and sick, It is no evil! Present it now to thy governor. Will he be pleased with thee, or will he accept thy person? says LORD of hosts.

acv@Malachi:1:9 @ [Ye say,] And now, I pray you, entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us; this has been by your means. Will he accept any of your persons? says LORD of hosts.

acv@Malachi:1:10 @ Oh that there was among you who would shut the doors, that ye might not kindle my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says LORD of hosts, nor will I accept an offering at your hand.

acv@Malachi:1:11 @ For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name [is] great among the Gentiles. And in every place incense [is] offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name [is] great among the Gentiles, says LORD

acv@Malachi:1:12 @ But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of LORD is polluted. And the fruit of it, even its food, is contemptible.

acv@Malachi:1:13 @ Ye also say, Behold, what a weariness it is! And ye have sniffed at it, says LORD of hosts. And ye have brought that which was taken by violence, and the lame, and the sick. Thus ye bring the offering. Should I accept this at your

acv@Malachi:1:14 @ But cursed be the deceiver, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to LORD a blemished thing. For I am a great King, says LORD of hosts, and my name is feared among the Gentiles.

acv@Malachi:2:1 @ And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.

acv@Malachi:2:2 @ If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, says LORD of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it

acv@Malachi:2:4 @ And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi, says LORD of hosts.

acv@Malachi:2:7 @ For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth. For he is the messenger of LORD of hosts.

acv@Malachi:2:8 @ But ye are turned aside out of the way. Ye have caused many to stumble in the law. Ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says LORD of hosts.

acv@Malachi:2:9 @ Therefore I also have made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.

acv@Malachi:2:11 @ Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the holiness of LORD which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

acv@Malachi:2:12 @ LORD will cut off out of the tents of Jacob, the man who does this: him who wakes, and him who answers, and him who offers an offering to LORD of hosts.

acv@Malachi:2:13 @ And this again ye do: Ye cover the altar of LORD with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he does not regard the offering any more, nor receives it with good will at your hand.

acv@Malachi:2:14 @ Yet ye say, Why? Because LORD has been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou have dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

acv@Malachi:2:15 @ And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

acv@Malachi:2:16 @ For I hate putting away, says LORD, the God of Israel, and him who covers his garment with violence, says LORD of hosts. Therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

acv@Malachi:2:17 @ Ye have wearied LORD with your words. Yet ye say, How have we wearied him? In that ye say, Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of LORD, and he delights in them, or Where is the God of justice?

acv@Malachi:3:1 @ Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me. And LORD, whom ye seek, will suddenly come to his temple. And the messenger of the covenant, whom ye desire, behold, he comes, says LORD of hosts.

acv@Malachi:3:2 @ But who can abide the day of his coming? And who shall stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap.

acv@Malachi:3:3 @ And he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver. And he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver. And they shall offer to LORD offerings in righteousness.

acv@Malachi:3:4 @ Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem shall be pleasant to LORD, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years.

acv@Malachi:3:5 @ And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the FALSE swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the f

acv@Malachi:3:6 @ For I, LORD, do not change. Therefore ye, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

acv@Malachi:3:7 @ From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says LORD of hosts. But ye say, How shall we return?

acv@Malachi:3:9 @ Ye are cursed with the curse, for ye rob me, even this whole nation.

acv@Malachi:3:10 @ Bring ye the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now with this, says LORD of hosts, if I will not open to you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be

acv@Malachi:3:11 @ And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground, nor shall your vine cast its fruit before the time in the field, says LORD of hosts.

acv@Malachi:3:12 @ And all nations shall call you blessed, for ye shall be a delightful land, says LORD of hosts.

acv@Malachi:3:13 @ Your words have been stout against me, says LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?

acv@Malachi:3:14 @ Ye have said, It is vain to serve God, and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before LORD of hosts?

acv@Malachi:3:15 @ And now we call the proud happy. Yea, those who work wickedness are built up. Yea, they challenge God, and escape.

acv@Malachi:3:16 @ Then those who feared LORD spoke one with another, and LORD hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for those who feared LORD, and who thought upon his name.

acv@Malachi:3:17 @ And they shall be mine, says LORD of hosts, my own possession, in the day that I make. And I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

acv@Malachi:4:1 @ For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace, and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, shall be stubble. And the day that comes shall burn them up, says LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

acv@Malachi:4:2 @ But to you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in its wings, and ye shall go forth, and frolic as calves of the stall.

acv@Malachi:4:3 @ And ye shall tread down the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make, says LORD of hosts.

acv@Malachi:4:4 @ Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.

acv@Malachi:4:5 @ Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and fearful day of LORD comes.


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