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Hosea:1:1 @ The word of the 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.
nkjv@Hosea:1:6 @ And she conceived again and bore a daughter. Then God said to him: "Call her name Lo-Ruhamah, For I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, But I will utterly take them away.
nkjv@Hosea:1:7 @ Yet I will have mercy on the house of Judah, Will save them by the LORD their God, And will not save them by bow, Nor by sword or battle, By horses or horsemen."
nkjv@Hosea:1:8 @ Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived and bore a son.
nkjv@Hosea:1:11 @ Then the children of Judah and the children of Israel Shall be gathered together, And appoint for themselves one head; And they shall come up out of the land, For great will be the day of Jezreel!
nkjv@Hosea:4:15 @ "Though you, Israel, play the harlot, Let not Judah offend. Do not come up to Gilgal, Nor go up to Beth Aven, Nor swear an oath, saying, "As the LORD lives'--
nkjv@Hosea:5:1 @ "Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O house of the king! For yours is the judgment, Because you have been a snare to Mizpah And a net spread on Tabor.
nkjv@Hosea:5:5 @ The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Therefore Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; Judah also stumbles with them.
nkjv@Hosea:5:8 @ "Blow the ram's horn in Gibeah, The trumpet in Ramah! Cry aloud at Beth Aven, "Look behind you, O Benjamin!'
nkjv@Hosea:5:10 @ "The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark; I will pour out My wrath on them like water.
nkjv@Hosea:5:12 @ Therefore I will be to Ephraim like a moth, And to the house of Judah like rottenness.
nkjv@Hosea:5:13 @ "When Ephraim saw his sickness, And Judah saw his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria And sent to King Jareb; Yet he cannot cure you, Nor heal you of your wound.
nkjv@Hosea:5:14 @ For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, And like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them and go away; I will take them away, and no one shall rescue.
nkjv@Hosea:6:4 @ "O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? For your faithfulness is like a morning cloud, And like the early dew it goes away.
nkjv@Hosea:6:11 @ Also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed for you, When I return the captives of My people.
nkjv@Hosea:8:14 @ "For Israel has forgotten his Maker, And has built temples; Judah also has multiplied fortified cities; But I will send fire upon his cities, And it shall devour his palaces."
nkjv@Hosea:9:9 @ They are deeply corrupted, As in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity; He will punish their sins.
nkjv@Hosea:10:9 @ "O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah; There they stood. The battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity Did not overtake them.
nkjv@Hosea:10:11 @ Ephraim is a trained heifer That loves to thresh grain; But I harnessed her fair neck, I will make Ephraim pull a plow. Judah shall plow; Jacob shall break his clods."
nkjv@Hosea:11:8 @ "How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I set you like Zeboiim? My heart churns within Me; My sympathy is stirred.
nkjv@Hosea:11:12 @ "Ephraim has encircled Me with lies, And the house of Israel with deceit; But Judah still walks with God, Even with the Holy One who is faithful.
nkjv@Hosea:12:2 @ "The LORD also brings a charge against Judah, And will punish Jacob according to his ways; According to his deeds He will recompense him.
nkjv@Joel:3:1 @ "For behold, in those days and at that time, When I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem,
nkjv@Joel:3:6 @ Also the people of Judah and the people of Jerusalem You have sold to the Greeks, That you may remove them far from their borders.
nkjv@Joel:3:8 @ I will sell your sons and your daughters Into the hand of the people of Judah, And they will sell them to the Sabeans, To a people far off; For the LORD has spoken."
nkjv@Joel:3:18 @ And it will come to pass in that day That the mountains shall drip with new wine, The hills shall flow with milk, And all the brooks of Judah shall be flooded with water; A fountain shall flow from the house of the LORD And water the Valley of Acacias.
nkjv@Joel:3:19 @ "Egypt shall be a desolation, And Edom a desolate wilderness, Because of violence against the people of Judah, For they have shed innocent blood in their land.
nkjv@Joel:3:20 @ But Judah shall abide forever, And Jerusalem from generation to generation.
nkjv@Amos:1:1 @ The words of Amos, who was among the sheepbreeders 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.
nkjv@Amos:1:12 @ But I will send a fire upon Teman, Which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah."
nkjv@Amos:1:14 @ But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, And it shall devour its palaces, Amid shouting in the day of battle, And a tempest in the day of the whirlwind.
nkjv@Amos:2:4 @ Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they have despised the law of the LORD, And have not kept His commandments. Their lies lead them astray, Lies which their fathers followed.
nkjv@Amos:2:5 @ But I will send a fire upon Judah, And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem."
nkjv@Amos:4:3 @ You will go out through broken walls, Each one straight ahead of her, And you will be cast into Harmon," Says the LORD.
nkjv@Amos:4:11 @ "I overthrew some of you, As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, And you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning; Yet you have not returned to Me," Says the LORD.
nkjv@Amos:6:14 @ "But, behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel," Says the LORD God of hosts; "And they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath To the Valley of the Arabah."
nkjv@Amos:7:10 @ Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.
nkjv@Amos:7:12 @ Then Amaziah said to Amos: "Go, you seer! Flee to the land of Judah. There eat bread, And there prophesy.
nkjv@Amos:7:14 @ Then Amos answered, and said to Amaziah: "I was no prophet, Nor was I a son of a prophet, But I was a sheepbreeder And a tender of sycamore fruit.
nkjv@Amos:8:5 @ Saying: "When will the New Moon be past, That we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, That we may trade wheat? Making the ephah small and the shekel large, Falsifying the scales by deceit,
nkjv@Obadiah:1:1 @ The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom (We have heard a report from the LORD, And a messenger has been sent among the nations, saying, "Arise, and let us rise up against her for battle"):
nkjv@Obadiah:1:2 @ "Behold, I will make you small among the nations; You shall be greatly despised.
nkjv@Obadiah:1:3 @ The pride of your heart has deceived you, You who dwell in the clefts of the rock, Whose habitation is high; You who say in your heart, "Who will bring me down to the ground?'
nkjv@Obadiah:1:4 @ Though you ascend as high as the eagle, And though you set your nest among the stars, From there I will bring you down," says the LORD.
nkjv@Obadiah:1:5 @ "If thieves had come to you, If robbers by night-- Oh, how you will be cut off!-- Would they not have stolen till they had enough? If grape-gatherers had come to you, Would they not have left some gleanings?
nkjv@Obadiah:1:6 @ "Oh, how Esau shall be searched out! How his hidden treasures shall be sought after!
nkjv@Obadiah:1:7 @ All the men in your confederacy Shall force you to the border; The men at peace with you Shall deceive you and prevail against you. Those who eat your bread shall lay a trap for you. No one is aware of it.
nkjv@Obadiah:1:8 @ "Will I not in that day," says the LORD, "Even destroy the wise men from Edom, And understanding from the mountains of Esau?
nkjv@Obadiah:1:9 @ Then your mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, To the end that everyone from the mountains of Esau May be cut off by slaughter.
nkjv@Obadiah:1:10 @ "For violence against your brother Jacob, Shame shall cover you, And you shall be cut off forever.
nkjv@Obadiah:1:11 @ In the day that you stood on the other side-- In the day that strangers carried captive his forces, When foreigners entered his gates And cast lots for Jerusalem-- Even you were as one of them.
nkjv@Obadiah:1:12 @ "But you should not have gazed on the day of your brother In the day of his captivity; Nor should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah In the day of their destruction; Nor should you have spoken proudly In the day of distress.
nkjv@Obadiah:1:13 @ You should not have entered the gate of My people In the day of their calamity. Indeed, you should not have gazed on their affliction In the day of their calamity, Nor laid hands on their substance In the day of their calamity.
nkjv@Obadiah:1:14 @ You should not have stood at the crossroads To cut off those among them who escaped; Nor should you have delivered up those among them who remained In the day of distress.
nkjv@Obadiah:1:15 @ "For the day of the LORD upon all the nations is near; As you have done, it shall be done to you; Your reprisal shall return upon your own head.
nkjv@Obadiah:1:16 @ For as you drank on My holy mountain, So shall all the nations drink continually; Yes, they shall drink, and swallow, And they shall be as though they had never been.
nkjv@Obadiah:1:17 @ "But on Mount Zion there shall be deliverance, And there shall be holiness; The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
nkjv@Obadiah:1:18 @ The house of Jacob shall be a fire, And the house of Joseph a flame; But the house of Esau shall be stubble; They shall kindle them and devour them, And no survivor shall remain of the house of Esau," For the LORD has spoken.
nkjv@Obadiah:1:19 @ The South shall possess the mountains of Esau, And the Lowland shall possess Philistia. They shall possess the fields of Ephraim And the fields of Samaria. Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
nkjv@Obadiah:1:20 @ And the captives of this host of the children of Israel Shall possess the land of the Canaanites As far as Zarephath. The captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad Shall possess the cities of the South.
nkjv@Obadiah:1:21 @ Then saviors shall come to Mount Zion To judge the mountains of Esau, And the kingdom shall be the LORD's.
nkjv@Jonah:1:1 @ Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
nkjv@Jonah:1:2 @ "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me."
nkjv@Jonah:1:3 @ But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
nkjv@Jonah:1:4 @ But the LORD sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship was about to be broken up.
nkjv@Jonah:1:5 @ Then the mariners were afraid; and every man cried out to his god, and threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to lighten the load. But Jonah had gone down into the lowest parts of the ship, had lain down, and was fast asleep.
nkjv@Jonah:1:6 @ So the captain came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God; perhaps your God will consider us, so that we may not perish."
nkjv@Jonah:1:7 @ And they said to one another, "Come, let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this trouble has come upon us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.
nkjv@Jonah:1:8 @ Then they said to him, "Please tell us! For whose cause is this trouble upon us? What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? And of what people are you?"
nkjv@Jonah:1:9 @ So he said to them, "I am a Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land."
nkjv@Jonah:1:10 @ Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, "Why have you done this?" For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.
nkjv@Jonah:1:11 @ Then they said to him, "What shall we do to you that the sea may be calm for us?"--for the sea was growing more tempestuous.
nkjv@Jonah:1:12 @ And he said to them, "Pick me up and throw me into the sea; then the sea will become calm for you. For I know that this great tempest is because of me."
nkjv@Jonah:1:13 @ Nevertheless the men rowed hard to return to land, but they could not, for the sea continued to grow more tempestuous against them.
nkjv@Jonah:1:14 @ Therefore they cried out to the LORD and said, "We pray, O LORD, please do not let us perish for this man's life, and do not charge us with innocent blood; for You, O LORD, have done as it pleased You."
nkjv@Jonah:1:15 @ So they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging.
nkjv@Jonah:1:16 @ Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice to the LORD and took vows.
nkjv@Jonah:1:17 @ Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
nkjv@Jonah:2:1 @ Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the fish's belly.
nkjv@Jonah:2:2 @ And he said: "I cried out to the LORD because of my affliction, And He answered me. "Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, And You heard my voice.
nkjv@Jonah:2:3 @ For You cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, And the floods surrounded me; All Your billows and Your waves passed over me.
nkjv@Jonah:2:4 @ Then I said, "I have been cast out of Your sight; Yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.'
nkjv@Jonah:2:5 @ The waters surrounded me, even to my soul; The deep closed around me; Weeds were wrapped around my head.
nkjv@Jonah:2:6 @ I went down to the moorings of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed behind me forever; Yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O LORD, my God.
nkjv@Jonah:2:7 @ "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; And my prayer went up to You, Into Your holy temple.
nkjv@Jonah:2:8 @ "Those who regard worthless idols Forsake their own Mercy.
nkjv@Jonah:2:9 @ But I will sacrifice to You With the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD."
nkjv@Jonah:2:10 @ So the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
nkjv@Jonah:3:1 @ Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,
nkjv@Jonah:3:2 @ "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I tell you."
nkjv@Jonah:3:3 @ So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three-day journey in extent.
nkjv@Jonah:3:4 @ And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day's walk. Then he cried out and said, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"
nkjv@Jonah:3:5 @ So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.
nkjv@Jonah:3:6 @ Then word came to the king of Nineveh; and he arose from his throne and laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes.
nkjv@Jonah:3:7 @ And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; do not let them eat, or drink water.
nkjv@Jonah:3:8 @ But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God; yes, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.
nkjv@Jonah:3:9 @ Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish?
nkjv@Jonah:3:10 @ Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.
nkjv@Jonah:4:1 @ But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he became angry.
nkjv@Jonah:4:2 @ So he prayed to the LORD, and said, "Ah, LORD, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled previously to Tarshish; for I know that You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing harm.
nkjv@Jonah:4:3 @ Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live!"
nkjv@Jonah:4:4 @ Then the LORD said, "Is it right for you to be angry?"
nkjv@Jonah:4:5 @ So Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city. There he made himself a shelter and sat under it in the shade, till he might see what would become of the city.
nkjv@Jonah:4:6 @ And the LORD God prepared a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be shade for his head to deliver him from his misery. So Jonah was very grateful for the plant.
nkjv@Jonah:4:7 @ But as morning dawned the next day God prepared a worm, and it so damaged the plant that it withered.
nkjv@Jonah:4:8 @ And it happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he grew faint. Then he wished death for himself, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."
nkjv@Jonah:4:9 @ Then God said to Jonah, "Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?" And he said, "It is right for me to be angry, even to death!"
nkjv@Jonah:4:10 @ But the LORD said, "You have had pity on the plant for which you have not labored, nor made it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night.
nkjv@Jonah:4:11 @ And should I not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left--and much livestock?"
nkjv@Micah:1:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
nkjv@Micah:1:2 @ Hear, all you peoples! Listen, O earth, and all that is in it! Let the Lord GOD be a witness against you, The Lord from His holy temple.
nkjv@Micah:1:3 @ For behold, the LORD is coming out of His place; He will come down And tread on the high places of the earth.
nkjv@Micah:1:4 @ The mountains will melt under Him, And the valleys will split Like wax before the fire, Like waters poured down a steep place.
nkjv@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?
nkjv@Micah:1:6 @ "Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the field, Places for planting a vineyard; I will pour down her stones into the valley, And I will uncover her foundations.
nkjv@Micah:1:7 @ All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces, And all her pay as a harlot shall be burned with the fire; All her idols I will lay desolate, For she gathered it from the pay of a harlot, And they shall return to the pay of a harlot."
nkjv@Micah:1:8 @ Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals And a mourning like the ostriches,
nkjv@Micah:1:9 @ For her wounds are incurable. For it has come to Judah; It has come to the gate of My people-- To Jerusalem.
nkjv@Micah:1:10 @ Tell it not in Gath, Weep not at all; In Beth Aphrah Roll yourself in the dust.
nkjv@Micah:1:11 @ Pass by in naked shame, you inhabitant of Shaphir; The inhabitant of Zaanan does not go out. Beth Ezel mourns; Its place to stand is taken away from you.
nkjv@Micah:1:12 @ For the inhabitant of Maroth pined for good, But disaster came down from the LORD To the gate of Jerusalem.
nkjv@Micah:1:13 @ O inhabitant of Lachish, Harness the chariot to the swift steeds (She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion), For the transgressions of Israel were found in you.
nkjv@Micah:1:14 @ Therefore you shall give presents to Moresheth Gath; The houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.
nkjv@Micah:1:15 @ I will yet bring an heir to you, O inhabitant of Mareshah; The glory of Israel shall come to Adullam.
nkjv@Micah:1:16 @ Make yourself bald and cut off your hair, Because of your precious children; Enlarge your baldness like an eagle, For they shall go from you into captivity.
nkjv@Micah:2:1 @ Woe to those who devise iniquity, And work out evil on their beds! At morning light they practice it, Because it is in the power of their hand.
nkjv@Micah:2:2 @ They covet fields and take them by violence, Also houses, and seize them. So they oppress a man and his house, A man and his inheritance.
nkjv@Micah:2:3 @ Therefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, against this family I am devising disaster, From which you cannot remove your necks; Nor shall you walk haughtily, For this is an evil time.
nkjv@Micah:2:4 @ In that day one shall take up a proverb against you, And lament with a bitter lamentation, saying: "We are utterly destroyed! He has changed the heritage of my people; How He has removed it from me! To a turncoat He has divided our fields."'
nkjv@Micah:2:5 @ Therefore you will have no one to determine boundaries by lot In the assembly of the LORD.
nkjv@Micah:2:6 @ "Do not prattle," you say to those who prophesy. So they shall not prophesy to you; They shall not return insult for insult.
nkjv@Micah:2:7 @ You who are named the house of Jacob: "Is the Spirit of the LORD restricted? Are these His doings? Do not My words do good To him who walks uprightly?
nkjv@Micah:2:8 @ "Lately My people have risen up as an enemy-- You pull off the robe with the garment From those who trust you, as they pass by, Like men returned from war.
nkjv@Micah:2:9 @ The women of My people you cast out From their pleasant houses; From their children You have taken away My glory forever.
nkjv@Micah:2:10 @ "Arise and depart, For this is not your rest; Because it is defiled, it shall destroy, Yes, with utter destruction.
nkjv@Micah:2:11 @ If a man should walk in a false spirit And speak a lie, saying, "I will prophesy to you of wine and drink,' Even he would be the prattler of this people.
nkjv@Micah:2:12 @ "I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob, I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together like sheep of the fold, Like a flock in the midst of their pasture; They shall make a loud noise because of so many people.
nkjv@Micah:2:13 @ The one who breaks open will come up before them; They will break out, Pass through the gate, And go out by it; Their king will pass before them, With the LORD at their head."
nkjv@Micah:3:1 @ And I said: "Hear now, O heads of Jacob, And you rulers of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know justice?
nkjv@Micah:3:2 @ You who hate good and love evil; Who strip the skin from My people, And the flesh from their bones;
nkjv@Micah:3:3 @ Who also eat the flesh of My people, Flay their skin from them, Break their bones, And chop them in pieces Like meat for the pot, Like flesh in the caldron."
nkjv@Micah:3:4 @ Then they will cry to the LORD, But He will not hear them; He will even hide His face from them at that time, Because they have been evil in their deeds.
nkjv@Micah:3:5 @ Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets Who make my people stray; Who chant "Peace" While they chew with their teeth, But who prepare war against him Who puts nothing into their mouths:
nkjv@Micah:3:6 @ "Therefore you shall have night without vision, And you shall have darkness without divination; The sun shall go down on the prophets, And the day shall be dark for them.
nkjv@Micah:3:7 @ So the seers shall be ashamed, And the diviners abashed; Indeed they shall all cover their lips; For there is no answer from God."
nkjv@Micah:3:8 @ But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the LORD, And of justice and might, To declare to Jacob his transgression And to Israel his sin.
nkjv@Micah:3:9 @ Now hear this, You heads of the house of Jacob And rulers of the house of Israel, Who abhor justice And pervert all equity,
nkjv@Micah:3:10 @ Who build up Zion with bloodshed And Jerusalem with iniquity:
nkjv@Micah:3:11 @ Her heads judge for a bribe, Her priests teach for pay, And her prophets divine for money. Yet they lean on the LORD, and say, "Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us."
nkjv@Micah:3:12 @ Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed like a field, Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins, And the mountain of the temple Like the bare hills of the forest.
nkjv@Micah:4:1 @ Now it shall come to pass in the latter days That the mountain of the LORD's house Shall be established on the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the hills; And peoples shall flow to it.
nkjv@Micah:4:2 @ Many nations shall come and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, And we shall walk in His paths." For out of Zion the law shall go forth, And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
nkjv@Micah:4:3 @ He shall judge between many peoples, And rebuke strong nations afar off; They shall beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning hooks; Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war anymore.
nkjv@Micah:4:4 @ But everyone shall sit under his vine and under his fig tree, And no one shall make them afraid; For the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken.
nkjv@Micah:4:5 @ For all people walk each in the name of his god, But we will walk in the name of the LORD our God Forever and ever.
nkjv@Micah:4:6 @ "In that day," says the LORD, "I will assemble the lame, I will gather the outcast And those whom I have afflicted;
nkjv@Micah:4:7 @ I will make the lame a remnant, And the outcast a strong nation; So the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion From now on, even forever.
nkjv@Micah:4:8 @ And you, O tower of the flock, The stronghold of the daughter of Zion, To you shall it come, Even the former dominion shall come, The kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem."
nkjv@Micah:4:9 @ Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king in your midst? Has your counselor perished? For pangs have seized you like a woman in labor.
nkjv@Micah:4:10 @ Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, Like a woman in birth pangs. For now you shall go forth from the city, You shall dwell in the field, And to Babylon you shall go. There you shall be delivered; There the LORD will redeem you From the hand of your enemies.
nkjv@Micah:4:11 @ Now also many nations have gathered against you, Who say, "Let her be defiled, And let our eye look upon Zion."
nkjv@Micah:4:12 @ But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, Nor do they understand His counsel; For He will gather them like sheaves to the threshing floor.
nkjv@Micah:4:13 @ "Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion; For I will make your horn iron, And I will make your hooves bronze; You shall beat in pieces many peoples; I will consecrate their gain to the LORD, And their substance to the Lord of the whole earth."
nkjv@Micah:5:1 @ Now gather yourself in troops, O daughter of troops; He has laid siege against us; They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.
nkjv@Micah:5:2 @ "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, From everlasting."
nkjv@Micah:5:3 @ Therefore He shall give them up, Until the time that she who is in labor has given birth; Then the remnant of His brethren Shall return to the children of Israel.
nkjv@Micah:5:4 @ And He shall stand and feed His flock In the strength of the LORD, In the majesty of the name of the LORD His God; And they shall abide, For now He shall be great To the ends of the earth;
nkjv@Micah:5:5 @ And this One shall be peace. When the Assyrian comes into our land, And when he treads in our palaces, Then we will raise against him Seven shepherds and eight princely men.
nkjv@Micah:5:6 @ They shall waste with the sword the land of Assyria, And the land of Nimrod at its entrances; Thus He shall deliver us from the Assyrian, When he comes into our land And when he treads within our borders.
nkjv@Micah:5:7 @ Then the remnant of Jacob Shall be in the midst of many peoples, Like dew from the LORD, Like showers on the grass, That tarry for no man Nor wait for the sons of men.
nkjv@Micah:5:8 @ And the remnant of Jacob Shall be among the Gentiles, In the midst of many peoples, Like a lion among the beasts of the forest, Like a young lion among flocks of sheep, Who, if he passes through, Both treads down and tears in pieces, And none can deliver.
nkjv@Micah:5:9 @ Your hand shall be lifted against your adversaries, And all your enemies shall be cut off.
nkjv@Micah:5:10 @ "And it shall be in that day," says the LORD, "That I will cut off your horses from your midst And destroy your chariots.
nkjv@Micah:5:11 @ I will cut off the cities of your land And throw down all your strongholds.
nkjv@Micah:5:12 @ I will cut off sorceries from your hand, And you shall have no soothsayers.
nkjv@Micah:5:13 @ Your carved images I will also cut off, And your sacred pillars from your midst; You shall no more worship the work of your hands;
nkjv@Micah:5:14 @ I will pluck your wooden images from your midst; Thus I will destroy your cities.
nkjv@Micah:5:15 @ And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury On the nations that have not heard."
nkjv@Micah:6:1 @ Hear now what the LORD says: "Arise, plead your case before the mountains, And let the hills hear your voice.
nkjv@Micah:6:2 @ Hear, O you mountains, the LORD's complaint, And you strong foundations of the earth; For the LORD has a complaint against His people, And He will contend with Israel.
nkjv@Micah:6:3 @ "O My people, what have I done to you? And how have I wearied you? Testify against Me.
nkjv@Micah:6:4 @ For I brought you up from the land of Egypt, I redeemed you from the house of bondage; And I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
nkjv@Micah:6:5 @ O My people, remember now What Balak king of Moab counseled, And what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, From Acacia Grove to Gilgal, That you may know the righteousness of the LORD."
nkjv@Micah:6:6 @ With what shall I come before the LORD, And bow myself before the High God? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, With calves a year old?
nkjv@Micah:6:7 @ Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, Ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
nkjv@Micah:6:8 @ He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?
nkjv@Micah:6:9 @ The LORD's voice cries to the city-- Wisdom shall see Your name: "Hear the rod! Who has appointed it?
nkjv@Micah:6:10 @ Are there yet the treasures of wickedness In the house of the wicked, And the short measure that is an abomination?
nkjv@Micah:6:11 @ Shall I count pure those with the wicked scales, And with the bag of deceitful weights?
nkjv@Micah:6:12 @ For her rich men are full of violence, Her inhabitants have spoken lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
nkjv@Micah:6:13 @ "Therefore I will also make you sick by striking you, By making you desolate because of your sins.
nkjv@Micah:6:14 @ You shall eat, but not be satisfied; Hunger shall be in your midst. You may carry some away, but shall not save them; And what you do rescue I will give over to the sword.
nkjv@Micah:6:15 @ "You shall sow, but not reap; You shall tread the olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; And make sweet wine, but not drink wine.
nkjv@Micah:6:16 @ For the statutes of Omri are kept; All the works of Ahab's house are done; And you walk in their counsels, That I may make you a desolation, And your inhabitants a hissing. Therefore you shall bear the reproach of My people."
nkjv@Micah:7:1 @ Woe is me! For I am like those who gather summer fruits, Like those who glean vintage grapes; There is no cluster to eat Of the first-ripe fruit which my soul desires.
nkjv@Micah:7:2 @ The faithful man has perished from the earth, And there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; Every man hunts his brother with a net.
nkjv@Micah:7:3 @ That they may successfully do evil with both hands-- The prince asks for gifts, The judge seeks a bribe, And the great man utters his evil desire; So they scheme together.
nkjv@Micah:7:4 @ The best of them is like a brier; The most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge; The day of your watchman and your punishment comes; Now shall be their perplexity.
nkjv@Micah:7:5 @ Do not trust in a friend; Do not put your confidence in a companion; Guard the doors of your mouth From her who lies in your bosom.
nkjv@Micah:7:6 @ For son dishonors father, Daughter rises against her mother, Daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; A man's enemies are the men of his own household.
nkjv@Micah:7:7 @ Therefore I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation; My God will hear me.
nkjv@Micah:7:8 @ Do not rejoice over me, my enemy; When I fall, I will arise; When I sit in darkness, The LORD will be a light to me.
nkjv@Micah:7:9 @ I will bear the indignation of the LORD, Because I have sinned against Him, Until He pleads my case And executes justice for me. He will bring me forth to the light; I will see His righteousness.
nkjv@Micah:7:10 @ Then she who is my enemy will see, And shame will cover her who said to me, "Where is the LORD your God?" My eyes will see her; Now she will be trampled down Like mud in the streets.
nkjv@Micah:7:11 @ In the day when your walls are to be built, In that day the decree shall go far and wide.
nkjv@Micah:7:12 @ In that day they shall come to you From Assyria and the fortified cities, From the fortress to the River, From sea to sea, And mountain to mountain.
nkjv@Micah:7:13 @ Yet the land shall be desolate Because of those who dwell in it, And for the fruit of their deeds.
nkjv@Micah:7:14 @ Shepherd Your people with Your staff, The flock of Your heritage, Who dwell solitarily in a woodland, In the midst of Carmel; Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, As in days of old.
nkjv@Micah:7:15 @ "As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt, I will show them wonders."
nkjv@Micah:7:16 @ The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; They shall put their hand over their mouth; Their ears shall be deaf.
nkjv@Micah:7:17 @ They shall lick the dust like a serpent; They shall crawl from their holes like snakes of the earth. They shall be afraid of the LORD our God, And shall fear because of You.
nkjv@Micah:7:18 @ Who is a God like You, Pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in mercy.
nkjv@Micah:7:19 @ He will again have compassion on us, And will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins Into the depths of the sea.
nkjv@Micah:7:20 @ You will give truth to Jacob And mercy to Abraham, Which You have sworn to our fathers From days of old.
nkjv@Nahum:1:1 @ The burden against Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
nkjv@Nahum:1:2 @ God is jealous, and the LORD avenges; The LORD avenges and is furious. The LORD will take vengeance on His adversaries, And He reserves wrath for His enemies;
nkjv@Nahum:1:3 @ The LORD is slow to anger and great in power, And will not at all acquit the wicked. The LORD has His way In the whirlwind and in the storm, And the clouds are the dust of His feet.
nkjv@Nahum:1:4 @ He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, And dries up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel wither, And the flower of Lebanon wilts.
nkjv@Nahum:1:5 @ The mountains quake before Him, The hills melt, And the earth heaves at His presence, Yes, the world and all who dwell in it.
nkjv@Nahum:1:6 @ Who can stand before His indignation? And who can endure the fierceness of His anger? His fury is poured out like fire, And the rocks are thrown down by Him.
nkjv@Nahum:1:7 @ The LORD is good, A stronghold in the day of trouble; And He knows those who trust in Him.
nkjv@Nahum:1:8 @ But with an overflowing flood He will make an utter end of its place, And darkness will pursue His enemies.
nkjv@Nahum:1:9 @ What do you conspire against the LORD? He will make an utter end of it. Affliction will not rise up a second time.
nkjv@Nahum:1:10 @ For while tangled like thorns, And while drunken like drunkards, They shall be devoured like stubble fully dried.
nkjv@Nahum:1:11 @ From you comes forth one Who plots evil against the LORD, A wicked counselor.
nkjv@Nahum:1:12 @ Thus says the LORD: "Though they are safe, and likewise many, Yet in this manner they will be cut down When he passes through. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more;
nkjv@Nahum:1:13 @ For now I will break off his yoke from you, And burst your bonds apart."
nkjv@Nahum:1:14 @ The LORD has given a command concerning you: "Your name shall be perpetuated no longer. Out of the house of your gods I will cut off the carved image and the molded image. I will dig your grave, For you are vile."
nkjv@Nahum:1:15 @ Behold, on the mountains The feet of him who brings good tidings, Who proclaims peace! O Judah, keep your appointed feasts, Perform your vows. For the wicked one shall no more pass through you; He is utterly cut off.
nkjv@Nahum:2:1 @ He who scatters has come up before your face. Man the fort! Watch the road! Strengthen your flanks! Fortify your power mightily.
nkjv@Nahum:2:2 @ For the LORD will restore the excellence of Jacob Like the excellence of Israel, For the emptiers have emptied them out And ruined their vine branches.
nkjv@Nahum:2:3 @ The shields of his mighty men are made red, The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots come with flaming torches In the day of his preparation, And the spears are brandished.
nkjv@Nahum:2:4 @ The chariots rage in the streets, They jostle one another in the broad roads; They seem like torches, They run like lightning.
nkjv@Nahum:2:5 @ He remembers his nobles; They stumble in their walk; They make haste to her walls, And the defense is prepared.
nkjv@Nahum:2:6 @ The gates of the rivers are opened, And the palace is dissolved.
nkjv@Nahum:2:7 @ It is decreed: She shall be led away captive, She shall be brought up; And her maidservants shall lead her as with the voice of doves, Beating their breasts.
nkjv@Nahum:2:8 @ Though Nineveh of old was like a pool of water, Now they flee away. "Halt! Halt!" they cry; But no one turns back.
nkjv@Nahum:2:9 @ Take spoil of silver! Take spoil of gold! There is no end of treasure, Or wealth of every desirable prize.
nkjv@Nahum:2:10 @ She is empty, desolate, and waste! The heart melts, and the knees shake; Much pain is in every side, And all their faces are drained of color. 1
nkjv@Nahum:2:11 @ Where is the dwelling of the lions, And the feeding place of the young lions, Where the lion walked, the lioness and lion's cub, And no one made them afraid?
nkjv@Nahum:2:12 @ The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, Killed for his lionesses, Filled his caves with prey, And his dens with flesh.
nkjv@Nahum:2:13 @ "Behold, I am against you," says the LORD of hosts, "I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions; I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall be heard no more."
nkjv@Nahum:3:1 @ Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. Its victim never departs.
nkjv@Nahum:3:2 @ The noise of a whip And the noise of rattling wheels, Of galloping horses, Of clattering chariots!
nkjv@Nahum:3:3 @ Horsemen charge with bright sword and glittering spear. There is a multitude of slain, A great number of bodies, Countless corpses-- They stumble over the corpses--
nkjv@Nahum:3:4 @ Because of the multitude of harlotries of the seductive harlot, The mistress of sorceries, Who sells nations through her harlotries, And families through her sorceries.
nkjv@Nahum:3:5 @ "Behold, I am against you," says the LORD of hosts; "I will lift your skirts over your face, I will show the nations your nakedness, And the kingdoms your shame.
nkjv@Nahum:3:6 @ I will cast abominable filth upon you, Make you vile, And make you a spectacle.
nkjv@Nahum:3:7 @ It shall come to pass that all who look upon you Will flee from you, and say, "Nineveh is laid waste! Who will bemoan her?' Where shall I seek comforters for you?"
nkjv@Nahum:3:8 @ Are you better than No Amon That was situated by the River, That had the waters around her, Whose rampart was the sea, Whose wall was the sea?
nkjv@Nahum:3:9 @ Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, And it was boundless; Put and Lubim were your helpers.
nkjv@Nahum:3:10 @ Yet she was carried away, She went into captivity; Her young children also were dashed to pieces At the head of every street; They cast lots for her honorable men, And all her great men were bound in chains.
nkjv@Nahum:3:11 @ You also will be drunk; You will be hidden; You also will seek refuge from the enemy.