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Hosea:1:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Hose'a the son of Be-e'ri, in the days of Uzzi'ah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezeki'ah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jerobo'am the son of Jo'ash, king of Israel.
rsv@Hosea:1:7 @ But I will have pity on the house of Judah, and I will deliver them by the LORD their God; I will not deliver them by bow, nor by sword, nor by war, nor by horses, nor by horsemen."
rsv@Hosea:1:11 @ And the people of Judah and the people of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint for themselves one head; and they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
rsv@Hosea:4:15 @ Though you play the harlot, O Israel, let not Judah become guilty. Enter not into Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-a'ven, and swear not, "As the LORD lives."
rsv@Hosea:5:1 @ Hear this, O priests! Give heed, O house of Israel! Hearken, O house of the king! For the judgment pertains to you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
rsv@Hosea:5:5 @ The pride of Israel testifies to his face; E'phraim shall stumble in his guilt; Judah also shall stumble with them.
rsv@Hosea:5:8 @ Blow the horn in Gib'e-ah, the trumpet in Ramah. Sound the alarm at Beth-a'ven; tremble, O Benjamin!
rsv@Hosea:5:10 @ The princes of Judah have become like those who remove the landmark; upon them I will pour out my wrath like water.
rsv@Hosea:5:12 @ Therefore I am like a moth to E'phraim, and like dry rot to the house of Judah.
rsv@Hosea:5:13 @ When E'phraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then E'phraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king. But he is not able to cure you or heal your wound.
rsv@Hosea:5:14 @ For I will be like a lion to E'phraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will rend and go away, I will carry off, and none shall rescue.
rsv@Hosea:6:4 @ What shall I do with you, O E'phraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.
rsv@Hosea:6:11 @ For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed. When I would restore the fortunes of my people,
rsv@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 his strongholds.
rsv@Hosea:9:9 @ They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gib'e-ah: he will remember their iniquity, he will punish their sins.
rsv@Hosea:10:9 @ From the days of Gib'e-ah, you have sinned, O Israel; there they have continued. Shall not war overtake them in Gib'e-ah?
rsv@Hosea:10:11 @ E'phraim was a trained heifer that loved to thresh, and I spared her fair neck; but I will put E'phraim to the yoke, Judah must plow, Jacob must harrow for himself.
rsv@Hosea:11:8 @ How can I give you up, O E'phraim! How can I hand you over, O Israel! How can I make you like Admah! How can I treat you like Zeboi'im! My heart recoils within me, my compassion grows warm and tender.
rsv@Hosea:11:12 @ E'phraim has encompassed me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah is still known by God, and is faithful to the Holy One.
rsv@Hosea:12:2 @ The LORD has an indictment against Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways, and requite him according to his deeds.
rsv@Hosea:12:8 @ E'phraim has said, "Ah, but I am rich, I have gained wealth for myself": but all his riches can never offset the guilt he has incurred.
rsv@Joel:3:1 @ "For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
rsv@Joel:3:6 @ You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, removing them far from their own border.
rsv@Joel:3:8 @ I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the sons of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabe'ans, to a nation far off; for the LORD has spoken."
rsv@Joel:3:18 @ "And in that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the stream beds of Judah shall flow with water; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD and water the valley of Shittim.
rsv@Joel:3:19 @ "Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
rsv@Joel:3:20 @ But Judah shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to all generations.
rsv@Amos:1:1 @ The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds of Teko'a, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzzi'ah king of Judah and in the days of Jerobo'am the son of Jo'ash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
rsv@Amos:1:12 @ So I will send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the strongholds of Bozrah."
rsv@Amos:1:14 @ So I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour her strongholds, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;
rsv@Amos:2:4 @ Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they have rejected the law of the LORD, and have not kept his statutes, but their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked.
rsv@Amos:2:5 @ So I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem."
rsv@Amos:4:11 @ "I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomor'rah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me," says the LORD.
rsv@Amos:6:14 @ "For behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel," says the LORD, the God of hosts; "and they shall oppress you from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of the Arabah."
rsv@Amos:7:10 @ Then Amazi'ah the priest of Bethel sent to Jerobo'am 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.
rsv@Amos:7:12 @ And Amazi'ah said to Amos, "O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there;
rsv@Amos:7:14 @ Then Amos answered Amazi'ah, "I am no prophet, nor a prophet's son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees,
rsv@Amos:8:5 @ saying, "When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great, and deal deceitfully with false balances,
rsv@Amos:8:14 @ Those who swear by Ash'imah of Sama'ria, and say, `As thy god lives, O Dan,' and, `As the way of Beer-sheba lives,' they shall fall, and never rise again."
rsv@Obadiah:1:1 @ The vision of Obadi'ah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard tidings from the LORD, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: "Rise up! let us rise against her for battle!"
rsv@Obadiah:1:2 @ Behold, I will make you small among the nations, you shall be utterly despised.
rsv@Obadiah:1:3 @ The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, "Who will bring me down to the ground?"
rsv@Obadiah:1:4 @ Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, thence I will bring you down, says the LORD.
rsv@Obadiah:1:5 @ If thieves came to you, if plunderers by night--how you have been destroyed!--would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
rsv@Obadiah:1:6 @ How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!
rsv@Obadiah:1:7 @ All your allies have deceived you, they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; your trusted friends have set a trap under you-- there is no understanding of it.
rsv@Obadiah:1:8 @ Will I not on that day, says the LORD, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
rsv@Obadiah:1:9 @ And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.
rsv@Obadiah:1:10 @ For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.
rsv@Obadiah:1:11 @ On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.
rsv@Obadiah:1:12 @ But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.
rsv@Obadiah:1:13 @ You should not have entered the gate of my people in the day of his calamity; you should not have gloated over his disaster in the day of his calamity; you should not have looted his goods in the day of his calamity.
rsv@Obadiah:1:14 @ You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.
rsv@Obadiah:1:15 @ For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.
rsv@Obadiah:1:16 @ For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, all the nations round about shall drink; they shall drink, and stagger, and shall be as though they had not been.
rsv@Obadiah:1:17 @ But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
rsv@Obadiah:1:18 @ The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the LORD has spoken.
rsv@Obadiah:1:19 @ Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephe'lah the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of E'phraim and the land of Sama'ria and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
rsv@Obadiah:1:20 @ The exiles in Halah who are of the people of Israel shall possess Phoenicia as far as Zar'ephath; and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sephar'ad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
rsv@Obadiah:1:21 @ Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD's.
rsv@Jonah:1:1 @ Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amit'tai, saying,
rsv@Jonah:1:2 @ "Arise, go to Nin'eveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness has come up before me."
rsv@Jonah:1:3 @ But Jonah rose 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 on board, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD.
rsv@Jonah:1:4 @ But the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up.
rsv@Jonah:1:5 @ Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried to his god; and they threw the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had lain down, and was fast asleep.
rsv@Jonah:1:6 @ So the captain came and said to him, "What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call upon your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we do not perish."
rsv@Jonah:1:7 @ And they said to one another, "Come, let us cast lots, that we may know on whose account this evil has come upon us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
rsv@Jonah:1:8 @ Then they said to him, "Tell us, on whose account this evil has come upon us? What is your occupation? And whence do you come? What is your country? And of what people are you?"
rsv@Jonah:1:9 @ And 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."
rsv@Jonah:1:10 @ Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, "What is this that you have done!" For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.
rsv@Jonah:1:11 @ Then they said to him, "What shall we do to you, that the sea may quiet down for us?" For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.
rsv@Jonah:1:12 @ He said to them, "Take me up and throw me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you; for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you."
rsv@Jonah:1:13 @ Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring the ship back to land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.
rsv@Jonah:1:14 @ Therefore they cried to the LORD, "We beseech thee, O LORD, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not on us innocent blood; for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee."
rsv@Jonah:1:15 @ So they took up Jonah and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.
rsv@Jonah:1:16 @ Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows.
rsv@Jonah:1:17 @ And the LORD appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
rsv@Jonah:2:1 @ Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish,
rsv@Jonah:2:2 @ saying, "I called to the LORD, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and thou didst hear my voice.
rsv@Jonah:2:3 @ For thou didst cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood was round about me; all thy waves and thy billows passed over me.
rsv@Jonah:2:4 @ Then I said, `I am cast out from thy presence; how shall I again look upon thy holy temple?'
rsv@Jonah:2:5 @ The waters closed in over me, the deep was round about me; weeds were wrapped about my head
rsv@Jonah:2:6 @ at the roots of the mountains. I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me for ever; yet thou didst bring up my life from the Pit, O LORD my God.
rsv@Jonah:2:7 @ When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer came to thee, into thy holy temple.
rsv@Jonah:2:8 @ Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their true loyalty.
rsv@Jonah:2:9 @ But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to thee; what I have vowed I will pay. Deliverance belongs to the LORD!"
rsv@Jonah:2:10 @ And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
rsv@Jonah:3:1 @ Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,
rsv@Jonah:3:2 @ "Arise, go to Nin'eveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you."
rsv@Jonah:3:3 @ So Jonah arose and went to Nin'eveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nin'eveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey in breadth.
rsv@Jonah:3:4 @ Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he cried, "Yet forty days, and Nin'eveh shall be overthrown!"
rsv@Jonah:3:5 @ And the people of Nin'eveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.
rsv@Jonah:3:6 @ Then tidings reached the king of Nin'eveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
rsv@Jonah:3:7 @ And he made proclamation and published through Nin'eveh, "By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, or drink water,
rsv@Jonah:3:8 @ but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them cry mightily to God; yea, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence which is in his hands.
rsv@Jonah:3:9 @ Who knows, God may yet repent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we perish not?"
rsv@Jonah:3:10 @ When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God repented of the evil which he had said he would do to them; and he did not do it.
rsv@Jonah:4:1 @ But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
rsv@Jonah:4:2 @ And he prayed to the LORD and said, "I pray thee, LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and repentest of evil.
rsv@Jonah:4:3 @ Therefore now, O LORD, take my life from me, I beseech thee, for it is better for me to die than to live."
rsv@Jonah:4:4 @ And the LORD said, "Do you do well to be angry?"
rsv@Jonah:4:5 @ Then Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city, and made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city.
rsv@Jonah:4:6 @ And the LORD God appointed a plant, and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant.
rsv@Jonah:4:7 @ But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm which attacked the plant, so that it withered.
rsv@Jonah:4:8 @ When the sun rose, God appointed a sultry east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah so that he was faint; and he asked that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."
rsv@Jonah:4:9 @ But God said to Jonah, "Do you do well to be angry for the plant?" And he said, "I do well to be angry, angry enough to die."
rsv@Jonah:4:10 @ And the LORD said, "You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night, and perished in a night.
rsv@Jonah:4:11 @ And should not I pity Nin'eveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?"
rsv@Micah:1:1 @ The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Mo'resheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezeki'ah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Sama'ria and Jerusalem.
rsv@Micah:1:2 @ Hear, you peoples, all of you; hearken, O earth, and all that is in it; and let the Lord GOD be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
rsv@Micah:1:3 @ For behold, the LORD is coming forth out of his place, and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.
rsv@Micah:1:4 @ And the mountains will melt under him and the valleys will be cleft, like wax before the fire, like waters poured down a steep place.
rsv@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 Sama'ria? And what is the sin of the house of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?
rsv@Micah:1:6 @ Therefore I will make Sama'ria a heap in the open country, a place for planting vineyards; and I will pour down her stones into the valley, and uncover her foundations.
rsv@Micah:1:7 @ All her images shall be beaten to pieces, all her hires shall be burned with fire, and all her idols I will lay waste; for from the hire of a harlot she gathered them, and to the hire of a harlot they shall return.
rsv@Micah:1:8 @ For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.
rsv@Micah:1:9 @ For her wound is incurable; and it has come to Judah, it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.
rsv@Micah:1:10 @ Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all; in Beth-le-aph'rah roll yourselves in the dust.
rsv@Micah:1:11 @ Pass on your way, inhabitants of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame; the inhabitants of Za'anan do not come forth; the wailing of Beth-e'zel shall take away from you its standing place.
rsv@Micah:1:12 @ For the inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good, because evil has come down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.
rsv@Micah:1:13 @ Harness the steeds to the chariots, inhabitants of Lachish; you were the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, for in you were found the transgressions of Israel.
rsv@Micah:1:14 @ Therefore you shall give parting gifts to Mo'resheth-gath; the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.
rsv@Micah:1:15 @ I will again bring a conqueror upon you, inhabitants of Mare'shah; the glory of Israel shall come to Adullam.
rsv@Micah:1:16 @ Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair, for the children of your delight; make yourselves as bald as the eagle, for they shall go from you into exile.
rsv@Micah:2:1 @ Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil upon their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.
rsv@Micah:2:2 @ They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
rsv@Micah:2:3 @ Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, against this family I am devising evil, from which you cannot remove your necks; and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be an evil time.
rsv@Micah:2:4 @ In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you, and wail with bitter lamentation, and say, "We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! Among our captors he divides our fields."
rsv@Micah:2:5 @ Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the LORD.
rsv@Micah:2:6 @ "Do not preach"--thus they preach--"one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us."
rsv@Micah:2:7 @ Should this be said, O house of Jacob? Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly?
rsv@Micah:2:8 @ But you rise against my people as an enemy; you strip the robe from the peaceful, from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war.
rsv@Micah:2:9 @ The women of my people you drive out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my glory for ever.
rsv@Micah:2:10 @ Arise and go, for this is no place to rest; because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction.
rsv@Micah:2:11 @ If a man should go about and utter wind and lies, saying, "I will preach to you of wine and strong drink," he would be the preacher for this people!
rsv@Micah:2:12 @ I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob, I will gather the remnant of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture, a noisy multitude of men.
rsv@Micah:2:13 @ He who opens the breach will go up before them; they will break through and pass the gate, going out by it. Their king will pass on before them, the LORD at their head.
rsv@Micah:3:1 @ And I said: Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice?--
rsv@Micah:3:2 @ you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people, and their flesh from off their bones;
rsv@Micah:3:3 @ who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones in pieces, and chop them up like meat in a kettle, like flesh in a caldron.
rsv@Micah:3:4 @ Then they will cry to the LORD, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time, because they have made their deeds evil.
rsv@Micah:3:5 @ Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry "Peace" when they have something to eat, but declare war against him who puts nothing into their mouths.
rsv@Micah:3:6 @ Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without divination. The sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them;
rsv@Micah:3:7 @ the seers shall be disgraced, and the diviners put to shame; they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.
rsv@Micah:3:8 @ But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
rsv@Micah:3:9 @ Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and pervert all equity,
rsv@Micah:3:10 @ who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with wrong.
rsv@Micah:3:11 @ Its heads give judgment for a bribe, its priests teach for hire, its prophets divine for money; yet they lean upon the LORD and say, "Is not the LORD in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us."
rsv@Micah:3:12 @ Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.
rsv@Micah:4:1 @ It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it,
rsv@Micah:4:2 @ and many nations shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
rsv@Micah:4:3 @ He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for 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, neither shall they learn war any more;
rsv@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 the LORD of hosts has spoken.
rsv@Micah:4:5 @ For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
rsv@Micah:4:6 @ In that day, says the LORD, I will assemble the lame and gather those who have been driven away, and those whom I have afflicted;
rsv@Micah:4:7 @ and the lame I will make the remnant; and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and for evermore.
rsv@Micah:4:8 @ And you, O tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Zion, to you shall it come, the former dominion shall come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.
rsv@Micah:4:9 @ Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pangs have seized you like a woman in travail?
rsv@Micah:4:10 @ Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now you shall go forth from the city and dwell in the open country; you shall go to Babylon. There you shall be rescued, there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.
rsv@Micah:4:11 @ Now many nations are assembled against you, saying, "Let her be profaned, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion."
rsv@Micah:4:12 @ But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.
rsv@Micah:4:13 @ Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron and your hoofs bronze; you shall beat in pieces many peoples, and shall devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth.
rsv@Micah:5:1 @ Now you are walled about with a wall; siege is laid against us; with a rod they strike upon the cheek the ruler of Israel.
rsv@Micah:5:2 @ But you, O Bethlehem Eph'rathah, who are little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days.
rsv@Micah:5:3 @ Therefore he shall give them up until the time when she who is in travail has brought forth; then the rest of his brethren shall return to the people of Israel.
rsv@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 dwell secure, for now he shall be great to the ends of the earth.
rsv@Micah:5:5 @ And this shall be peace, when the Assyrian comes into our land and treads upon our soil, that we will raise against him seven shepherds and eight princes of men;
rsv@Micah:5:6 @ they shall rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the drawn sword; and they shall deliver us from the Assyrian when he comes into our land and treads within our border.
rsv@Micah:5:7 @ Then the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers upon the grass, which tarry not for men nor wait for the sons of men.
rsv@Micah:5:8 @ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which, when it goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.
rsv@Micah:5:9 @ Your hand shall be lifted up over your adversaries, and all your enemies shall be cut off.
rsv@Micah:5:10 @ And in that day, says the LORD, I will cut off your horses from among you and will destroy your chariots;
rsv@Micah:5:11 @ and I will cut off the cities of your land and throw down all your strongholds;
rsv@Micah:5:12 @ and I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you shall have no more soothsayers;
rsv@Micah:5:13 @ and I will cut off your images and your pillars from among you, and you shall bow down no more to the work of your hands;
rsv@Micah:5:14 @ and I will root out your Ashe'rim from among you and destroy your cities.
rsv@Micah:5:15 @ And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance upon the nations that did not obey.
rsv@Micah:6:1 @ Hear what the LORD says: Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.
rsv@Micah:6:2 @ Hear, you mountains, the controversy of the LORD, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the LORD has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.
rsv@Micah:6:3 @ "O my people, what have I done to you? In what have I wearied you? Answer me!
rsv@Micah:6:4 @ For I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of bondage; and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
rsv@Micah:6:5 @ O my people, remember what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Be'or answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the saving acts of the LORD."
rsv@Micah:6:6 @ "With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
rsv@Micah:6:7 @ Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?"
rsv@Micah:6:8 @ He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
rsv@Micah:6:9 @ The voice of the LORD cries to the city--and it is sound wisdom to fear thy name: "Hear, O tribe and assembly of the city!
rsv@Micah:6:10 @ Can I forget the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed?
rsv@Micah:6:11 @ Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?
rsv@Micah:6:12 @ Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
rsv@Micah:6:13 @ Therefore I have begun to smite you, making you desolate because of your sins.
rsv@Micah:6:14 @ You shall eat, but not be satisfied, and there shall be hunger in your inward parts; you shall put away, but not save, and what you save I will give to the sword.
rsv@Micah:6:15 @ You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.
rsv@Micah:6:16 @ For you have kept the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their counsels; that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing; so you shall bear the scorn of the peoples."
rsv@Micah:7:1 @ Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the vintage has been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig which my soul desires.
rsv@Micah:7:2 @ The godly man has perished from the earth, and there is none upright among men; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts his brother with a net.
rsv@Micah:7:3 @ Their hands are upon what is evil, to do it diligently; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.
rsv@Micah:7:4 @ The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of their watchmen, of their punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand.
rsv@Micah:7:5 @ Put no trust in a neighbor, have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom;
rsv@Micah:7:6 @ for the son treats the father with contempt, 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.
rsv@Micah:7:7 @ But as for me, I will look to the LORD, I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.
rsv@Micah:7:8 @ Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me.
rsv@Micah:7:9 @ I will bear the indignation of the LORD because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light; I shall behold his deliverance.
rsv@Micah:7:10 @ Then my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who said to me, "Where is the LORD your God?" My eyes will gloat over her; now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.
rsv@Micah:7:11 @ A day for the building of your walls! In that day the boundary shall be far extended.
rsv@Micah:7:12 @ In that day they will come to you, from Assyria to Egypt, and from Egypt to the River, from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.
rsv@Micah:7:13 @ But the earth will be desolate because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their doings.
rsv@Micah:7:14 @ Shepherd thy people with thy staff, the flock of thy inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old.
rsv@Micah:7:15 @ As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt I will show them marvelous things.
rsv@Micah:7:16 @ The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf;
rsv@Micah:7:17 @ they shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds, they shall turn in dread to the LORD our God, and they shall fear because of thee.
rsv@Micah:7:18 @ Who is a God like thee, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger for ever because he delights in steadfast love.
rsv@Micah:7:19 @ He will again have compassion upon us, he will tread our iniquities under foot. Thou wilt cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
rsv@Micah:7:20 @ Thou wilt show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as thou hast sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
rsv@Nahum:1:1 @ An oracle concerning Nin'eveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.
rsv@Nahum:1:2 @ The LORD is a jealous God and avenging, the LORD is avenging and wrathful; the LORD takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies.
rsv@Nahum:1:3 @ The LORD is slow to anger and of great might, and the LORD will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
rsv@Nahum:1:4 @ He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, he dries up all the rivers; Bashan and Carmel wither, the bloom of Lebanon fades.
rsv@Nahum:1:5 @ The mountains quake before him, the hills melt; the earth is laid waste before him, the world and all that dwell therein.
rsv@Nahum:1:6 @ Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the heat of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him.
rsv@Nahum:1:7 @ The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.
rsv@Nahum:1:8 @ But with an overflowing flood he will make a full end of his adversaries, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
rsv@Nahum:1:9 @ What do you plot against the LORD? He will make a full end; he will not take vengeance twice on his foes.
rsv@Nahum:1:10 @ Like entangled thorns they are consumed, like dry stubble.
rsv@Nahum:1:11 @ Did one not come out from you, who plotted evil against the LORD, and counseled villainy?
rsv@Nahum:1:12 @ Thus says the LORD, "Though they be strong and many, they will be cut off and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.
rsv@Nahum:1:13 @ And now I will break his yoke from off you and will burst your bonds asunder."
rsv@Nahum:1:14 @ The LORD has given commandment about you: "No more shall your name be perpetuated; from the house of your gods I will cut off the graven image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile."
rsv@Nahum:1:15 @ Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good tidings, who proclaims peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, fulfil your vows, for never again shall the wicked come against you, he is utterly cut off.
rsv@Nahum:2:1 @ The shatterer has come up against you. Man the ramparts; watch the road; gird your loins; collect all your strength.
rsv@Nahum:2:2 @ (For the LORD is restoring the majesty of Jacob as the majesty of Israel, for plunderers have stripped them and ruined their branches.)
rsv@Nahum:2:3 @ The shield of his mighty men is red, his soldiers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots flash like flame when mustered in array; the chargers prance.
rsv@Nahum:2:4 @ The chariots rage in the streets, they rush to and fro through the squares; they gleam like torches, they dart like lightning.
rsv@Nahum:2:5 @ The officers are summoned, they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall, the mantelet is set up.
rsv@Nahum:2:6 @ The river gates are opened, the palace is in dismay;
rsv@Nahum:2:7 @ its mistress is stripped, she is carried off, her maidens lamenting, moaning like doves, and beating their breasts.
rsv@Nahum:2:8 @ Nin'eveh is like a pool whose waters run away. "Halt! Halt!" they cry; but none turns back.
rsv@Nahum:2:9 @ Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of treasure, or wealth of every precious thing.
rsv@Nahum:2:10 @ Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts faint and knees tremble, anguish is on all loins, all faces grow pale!
rsv@Nahum:2:11 @ Where is the lions' den, the cave of the young lions, where the lion brought his prey, where his cubs were, with none to disturb?
rsv@Nahum:2:12 @ The lion tore enough for his whelps and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh.
rsv@Nahum:2:13 @ Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts, and 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 no more be heard.
rsv@Nahum:3:1 @ Woe to the bloody city, all full of lies and booty--no end to the plunder!
rsv@Nahum:3:2 @ The crack of whip, and rumble of wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!
rsv@Nahum:3:3 @ Horsemen charging, flashing sword and glittering spear, hosts of slain, heaps of corpses, dead bodies without end--they stumble over the bodies!
rsv@Nahum:3:4 @ And all for the countless harlotries of the harlot, graceful and of deadly charms, who betrays nations with her harlotries, and peoples with her charms.
rsv@Nahum:3:5 @ Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts, and will lift up your skirts over your face; and I will let nations look on your nakedness and kingdoms on your shame.
rsv@Nahum:3:6 @ I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt, and make you a gazingstock.
rsv@Nahum:3:7 @ And all who look on you will shrink from you and say, Wasted is Nin'eveh; who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for her?
rsv@Nahum:3:8 @ Are you better than Thebes that sat by the Nile, with water around her, her rampart a sea, and water her wall?
rsv@Nahum:3:9 @ Ethiopia was her strength, Egypt too, and that without limit; Put and the Libyans were her helpers.
rsv@Nahum:3:10 @ Yet she was carried away, she went into captivity; her little ones were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; for her honored men lots were cast, and all her great men were bound in chains.
rsv@Nahum:3:11 @ You also will be drunken, you will be dazed; you will seek a refuge from the enemy.
rsv@Nahum:3:12 @ All your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs--if shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater.