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Hosea:1:6 @ She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the LORD said to him, "Call her name Not pitied, for I will no more have pity on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.
rsv@Hosea:1:8 @ When she had weaned Not pitied, she conceived and bore a son.
rsv@Hosea:2:9 @ Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my wine in its season; and I will take away my wool and my flax, which were to cover her nakedness.
rsv@Hosea:2:15 @ And there I will give her her vineyards, and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.
rsv@Hosea:2:17 @ For I will remove the names of the Ba'als from her mouth, and they shall be mentioned by name no more.
rsv@Hosea:2:19 @ And I will betroth you to me for ever; I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love, and in mercy.
rsv@Hosea:2:23 @ and I will sow him for myself in the land. And I will have pity on Not pitied, and I will say to Not my people, `You are my people'; and he shall say `Thou art my God.'"
rsv@Hosea:4:2 @ there is swearing, lying, killing, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds and murder follows murder.
rsv@Hosea:4:4 @ Yet let no one contend, and let none accuse, for with you is my contention, O priest.
rsv@Hosea:4:10 @ They shall eat, but not be satisfied; they shall play the harlot, but not multiply; because they have forsaken the LORD to cherish harlotry.
rsv@Hosea:4:14 @ I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go aside with harlots, and sacrifice with cult prostitutes, and a people without understanding shall come to ruin.
rsv@Hosea:5:2 @ And they have made deep the pit of Shittim; but I will chastise all of them.
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:5:9 @ E'phraim shall become a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I declare what is sure.
rsv@Hosea:5:15 @ I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress they seek me, saying,
rsv@Hosea:7:1 @ when I would heal Israel, the corruption of E'phraim is revealed, and the wicked deeds of Sama'ria; for they deal falsely, the thief breaks in, and the bandits raid without.
rsv@Hosea:7:4 @ They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven, whose baker ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
rsv@Hosea:7:12 @ As they go, I will spread over them my net; I will bring them down like birds of the air; I will chastise them for their wicked deeds.
rsv@Hosea:7:13 @ Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.
rsv@Hosea:8:4 @ They made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but without my knowledge. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction.
rsv@Hosea:8:5 @ I have spurned your calf, O Sama'ria. My anger burns against them. How long will it be till they are pure
rsv@Hosea:8:8 @ Israel is swallowed up; already they are among the nations as a useless vessel.
rsv@Hosea:8:10 @ Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And they shall cease for a little while from anointing king and princes.
rsv@Hosea:8:11 @ Because E'phraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they have become to him altars for sinning.
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:9:4 @ They shall not pour libations of wine to the LORD; and they shall not please him with their sacrifices. Their bread shall be like mourners' bread; all who eat of it shall be defiled; for their bread shall be for their hunger only; it shall not come to the house of the LORD.
rsv@Hosea:9:5 @ What will you do on the day of appointed festival, and on the day of the feast of the LORD?
rsv@Hosea:9:11 @ E'phraim's glory shall fly away like a bird--no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
rsv@Hosea:9:12 @ Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them!
rsv@Hosea:9:13 @ E'phraim's sons, as I have seen, are destined for a prey; E'phraim must lead forth his sons to slaughter.
rsv@Hosea:9:17 @ My God will cast them off, because they have not hearkened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations.
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:10:10 @ I will come against the wayward people to chastise them; and nations shall be gathered against them when they are chastised for their double iniquity.
rsv@Hosea:10:12 @ Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come and rain salvation upon you.
rsv@Hosea:10:13 @ You have plowed iniquity, you have reaped injustice, you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your chariots and in the multitude of your warriors,
rsv@Hosea:11:6 @ The sword shall rage against their cities, consume the bars of their gates, and devour them in their fortresses.
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:12:1 @ E'phraim herds the wind, and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a bargain with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.
rsv@Hosea:12:6 @ "So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God."
rsv@Hosea:12:10 @ I spoke to the prophets; it was I who multiplied visions, and through the prophets gave parables.
rsv@Hosea:12:14 @ E'phraim has given bitter provocation; so his LORD will leave his bloodguilt upon him, and will turn back upon him his reproaches.
rsv@Hosea:13:14 @ Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your destruction? Compassion is hid from my eyes.
rsv@Joel:1:3 @ Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
rsv@Joel:1:4 @ What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.
rsv@Joel:1:6 @ For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and without number; its teeth are lions' teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness.
rsv@Joel:1:11 @ Be confounded, O tillers of the soil, wail, O vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished.
rsv@Joel:1:14 @ Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD your God; and cry to the LORD.
rsv@Joel:1:15 @ Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.
rsv@Joel:2:2 @ a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been from of old, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.
rsv@Joel:2:12 @ "Yet even now," says the LORD, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
rsv@Joel:2:15 @ Blow the trumpet in Zion; sanctify a fast; call a solemn assembly;
rsv@Joel:2:16 @ gather the people. Sanctify the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.
rsv@Joel:2:17 @ Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep and say, "Spare thy people, O LORD, and make not thy heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, `Where is their God?'"
rsv@Joel:2:19 @ The LORD answered and said to his people, "Behold, I am sending to you grain, wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
rsv@Joel:2:23 @ "Be glad, O sons of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD, your God; for he has given the early rain for your vindication, he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before.
rsv@Joel:2:26 @ "You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never again be put to shame.
rsv@Joel:3:1 @ "For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
rsv@Joel:3:2 @ I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehosh'aphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there, on account of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations, and have divided up my land,
rsv@Joel:3:4 @ "What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will requite your deed upon your own head swiftly and speedily.
rsv@Joel:3:7 @ But now I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will requite your deed upon your own head.
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:3:9 @ Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war, stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.
rsv@Joel:3:11 @ Hasten and come, all you nations round about, gather yourselves there. Bring down thy warriors, O LORD.
rsv@Joel:3:12 @ Let the nations bestir themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehosh'aphat; for there I will sit to judge all the nations round about.
rsv@Joel:3:14 @ Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
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:1:8 @ I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod, and him that holds the scepter from Ash'kelon; I will turn my hand against Ekron; and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish," says the Lord GOD.
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:2:2 @ So I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ker'ioth, and Moab shall die amid uproar, amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;
rsv@Amos:3:2 @ "You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
rsv@Amos:3:13 @ "Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob," says the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
rsv@Amos:4:4 @ "Come to Bethel, and transgress; to Gilgal, and multiply transgression; bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days;
rsv@Amos:4:6 @ "I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places, yet you did not return to me," says the LORD.
rsv@Amos:4:8 @ so two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied; yet you did not return to me," says the LORD.
rsv@Amos:4:10 @ "I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt; I slew your young men with the sword; I carried away your horses; and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils; yet you did not return to me," says the LORD.
rsv@Amos:5:1 @ Hear this word which I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:
rsv@Amos:5:7 @ O you who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!
rsv@Amos:5:9 @ who makes destruction flash forth against the strong, so that destruction comes upon the fortress.
rsv@Amos:5:11 @ Therefore because you trample upon the poor and take from him exactions of wheat, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
rsv@Amos:5:13 @ Therefore he who is prudent will keep silent in such a time; for it is an evil time.
rsv@Amos:5:15 @ Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
rsv@Amos:5:16 @ Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord: "In all the squares there shall be wailing; and in all the streets they shall say, 'Alas! alas!' They shall call the farmers to mourning and to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation,
rsv@Amos:5:24 @ But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
rsv@Amos:6:1 @ "Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who feel secure on the mountain of Sama'ria, the notable men of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!
rsv@Amos:6:2 @ Pass over to Calneh, and see; and thence go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms? Or is their territory greater than your territory,
rsv@Amos:6:10 @ And when a man's kinsman, he who burns him, shall take him up to bring the bones out of the house, and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, "Is there still any one with you?" he shall say, "No"; and he shall say, "Hush! We must not mention the name of the LORD."
rsv@Amos:6:12 @ Do horses run upon rocks? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood--
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:7:1 @ Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, he was forming locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.
rsv@Amos:7:2 @ When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said, "O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"
rsv@Amos:7:4 @ Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, the Lord GOD was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.
rsv@Amos:7:8 @ And the LORD said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Behold, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass by them;
rsv@Amos:8:10 @ I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.
rsv@Amos:9:1 @ I saw the LORD standing beside the altar, and he said: "Smite the capitals until the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the heads of all the people; and what are left of them I will slay with the sword; not one of them shall flee away, not one of them shall escape.
rsv@Amos:9:4 @ And though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it shall slay them; and I will set my eyes upon them for evil and not for good."
rsv@Amos:9:7 @ "Are you not like the Ethiopians to me, O people of Israel?" says the LORD. "Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir?
rsv@Amos:9:9 @ "For lo, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall upon the earth.
rsv@Amos:9:12 @ that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name," says the LORD who does this.
rsv@Amos:9:14 @ I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.
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:1:14 @ 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:1:19 @ 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@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:3:1 @ Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,
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: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@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:1:8 @ 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:1:14 @ 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: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:2:7 @ 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:2:10 @ Arise and go, for this is no place to rest; because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction.
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: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:3:4 @ 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:3:6 @ 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:3:8 @ 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: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:4:7 @ 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:4:11 @ Now many nations are assembled against you, saying, "Let her be profaned, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion."
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:5:8 @ 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:5:11 @ and I will cut off the cities of your land and throw down all your strongholds;
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:6:2 @ 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:6:5 @ 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:6:8 @ 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:6:14 @ 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:6:16 @ 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:7:7 @ 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:7:9 @ 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:7:16 @ 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:7:19 @ 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@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:1:15 @ 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:2:7 @ its mistress is stripped, she is carried off, her maidens lamenting, moaning like doves, and beating their breasts.
rsv@Nahum:2:10 @ Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts faint and knees tremble, anguish is on all loins, all faces grow pale!
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:3:10 @ 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:3:15 @ There will the fire devour you, the sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the locust. Multiply yourselves like the locust, multiply like the grasshopper!
rsv@Habakkuk:1:3 @ Why dost thou make me see wrongs and look upon trouble? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.
rsv@Habakkuk:1:4 @ So the law is slacked and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous, so justice goes forth perverted.
rsv@Habakkuk:1:5 @ Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told.
rsv@Habakkuk:1:6 @ For lo, I am rousing the Chalde'ans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize habitations not their own.
rsv@Habakkuk:1:7 @ Dread and terrible are they; their justice and dignity proceed from themselves.
rsv@Habakkuk:1:9 @ They all come for violence; terror of them goes before them. They gather captives like sand.
rsv@Habakkuk:1:12 @ Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them as a judgment; and thou, O Rock, hast established them for chastisement.
rsv@Habakkuk:1:17 @ Is he then to keep on emptying his net, and mercilessly slaying nations for ever?
rsv@Habakkuk:2:1 @ I will take my stand to watch, and station myself on the tower, and look forth to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.
rsv@Habakkuk:2:3 @ For still the vision awaits its time; it hastens to the end--it will not lie. If it seem slow, wait for it; it will surely come, it will not delay.
rsv@Habakkuk:2:5 @ Moreover, wine is treacherous; the arrogant man shall not abide. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations, and collects as his own all peoples."
rsv@Habakkuk:2:8 @ Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of men and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell therein.
rsv@Habakkuk:2:10 @ You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples; you have forfeited your life.
rsv@Habakkuk:2:13 @ Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that peoples labor only for fire, and nations weary themselves for nought?
rsv@Habakkuk:2:17 @ The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you; the destruction of the beasts will terrify you, for the blood of men and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell therein.
rsv@Habakkuk:2:18 @ What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For the workman trusts in his own creation when he makes dumb idols!
rsv@Habakkuk:2:19 @ Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake; to a dumb stone, Arise! Can this give revelation? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it.
rsv@Habakkuk:3:5 @ Before him went pestilence, and plague followed close behind.
rsv@Habakkuk:3:6 @ He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered, the everlasting hills sank low. His ways were as of old.
rsv@Habakkuk:3:7 @ I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; the curtains of the land of Mid'ian did tremble.
rsv@Habakkuk:3:8 @ Was thy wrath against the rivers, O LORD? Was thy anger against the rivers, or thy indignation against the sea, when thou didst ride upon thy horses, upon thy chariot of victory?
rsv@Habakkuk:3:11 @ The sun and moon stood still in their habitation at the light of thine arrows as they sped, at the flash of thy glittering spear.
rsv@Habakkuk:3:12 @ Thou didst bestride the earth in fury, thou didst trample the nations in anger.
rsv@Habakkuk:3:13 @ Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, for the salvation of thy anointed. Thou didst crush the head of the wicked, laying him bare from thigh to neck. Selah
rsv@Habakkuk:3:18 @ yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
rsv@Zephaniah:1:8 @ And on the day of the LORD'S sacrifice--"I will punish the officials and the king's sons and all who array themselves in foreign attire.
rsv@Zephaniah:1:12 @ At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are thickening upon their lees, those who say in their hearts, `The LORD will not do good, nor will he do ill.'
rsv@Zephaniah:1:15 @ A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
rsv@Zephaniah:1:16 @ a day of trumpet blast and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the lofty battlements.
rsv@Zephaniah:2:1 @ Come together and hold assembly, O shameless nation,
rsv@Zephaniah:2:2 @ before you are driven away like the drifting chaff, before there comes upon you the fierce anger of the LORD, before there comes upon you the day of the wrath of the LORD.
rsv@Zephaniah:2:4 @ For Gaza shall be deserted, and Ash'kelon shall become a desolation; Ashdod's people shall be driven out at noon, and Ekron shall be uprooted.
rsv@Zephaniah:2:5 @ Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast, you nation of the Cher'ethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; and I will destroy you till no inhabitant is left.
rsv@Zephaniah:2:9 @ Therefore, as I live," says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomor'rah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste for ever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them."
rsv@Zephaniah:2:11 @ The LORD will be terrible against them; yea, he will famish all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the lands of the nations.
rsv@Zephaniah:2:13 @ And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and he will make Nin'eveh a desolation, a dry waste like the desert.
rsv@Zephaniah:2:15 @ This is the exultant city that dwelt secure, that said to herself, "I am and there is none else." What a desolation she has become, a lair for wild beasts! Every one who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
rsv@Zephaniah:3:2 @ She listens to no voice, she accepts no correction. She does not trust in the LORD, she does not draw near to her God.
rsv@Zephaniah:3:3 @ Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.
rsv@Zephaniah:3:5 @ The LORD within her is righteous, he does no wrong; every morning he shows forth his justice, each dawn he does not fail; but the unjust knows no shame.
rsv@Zephaniah:3:6 @ "I have cut off nations; their battlements are in ruins; I have laid waste their streets so that none walks in them; their cities have been made desolate, without a man, without an inhabitant.
rsv@Zephaniah:3:7 @ I said, `Surely she will fear me, she will accept correction; she will not lose sight of all that I have enjoined upon her.' But all the more they were eager to make all their deeds corrupt."
rsv@Zephaniah:3:8 @ "Therefore wait for me," says the LORD, "for the day when I arise as a witness. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all the heat of my anger; for in the fire of my jealous wrath all the earth shall be consumed.
rsv@Zephaniah:3:9 @ "Yea, at that time I will change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech, that all of them may call on the name of the LORD and serve him with one accord.
rsv@Zephaniah:3:18 @ as on a day of festival. "I will remove disaster from you, so that you will not bear reproach for it.
rsv@Zephaniah:3:19 @ Behold, at that time I will deal with all your oppressors. And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise and renown in all the earth.
rsv@Zephaniah:3:20 @ At that time I will bring you home, at the time when I gather you together; yea, I will make you renowned and praised among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes," says the LORD.
rsv@Haggai:1:1 @ In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet to Zerub'babel the son of She-al'ti-el, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehoz'adak, the high priest,
rsv@Haggai:1:2 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: This people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD."
rsv@Haggai:1:4 @ "Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?
rsv@Haggai:1:12 @ Then Zerub'babel the son of She-al'ti-el, and Joshua the son of Jehoz'adak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him; and the people feared before the LORD.
rsv@Haggai:1:14 @ And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerub'babel the son of She-al'ti-el, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehoz'adak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,
rsv@Haggai:2:2 @ "Speak now to Zerub'babel the son of She-al'ti-el, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehoz'adak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, and say,
rsv@Haggai:2:7 @ and I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with splendor, says the LORD of hosts.
rsv@Haggai:2:11 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: Ask the priests to decide this question,
rsv@Haggai:2:14 @ Then Haggai said, "So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, says the LORD; and so with every work of their hands; and what they offer there is unclean.
rsv@Haggai:2:18 @ Consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since the day that the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid, consider:
rsv@Haggai:2:19 @ Is the seed yet in the barn? Do the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree still yield nothing? From this day on I will bless you."
rsv@Haggai:2:20 @ The word of the LORD came a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month,
rsv@Haggai:2:22 @ and to overthrow the throne of kingdoms; I am about to destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, and overthrow the chariots and their riders; and the horses and their riders shall go down, every one by the sword of his fellow.
rsv@Haggai:2:23 @ On that day, says the LORD of hosts, I will take you, O Zerub'babel my servant, the son of She-al'ti-el, says the LORD, and make you like a signet ring; for I have chosen you, says the LORD of hosts."
rsv@Zechariah:1:12 @ Then the angel of the LORD said, `O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou have no mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these seventy years?'
rsv@Zechariah:1:13 @ And the LORD answered gracious and comforting words to the angel who talked with me.
rsv@Zechariah:1:15 @ And I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little they furthered the disaster.
rsv@Zechariah:1:17 @ Cry again, Thus says the LORD of hosts: My cities shall again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.'"
rsv@Zechariah:1:21 @ And I said, "What are these coming to do?" He answered, "These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man raised his head; and these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it."
rsv@Zechariah:2:4 @ and said to him, "Run, say to that young man, `Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and cattle in it.
rsv@Zechariah:2:8 @ For thus said the LORD of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:
rsv@Zechariah:2:11 @ And many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
rsv@Zechariah:2:12 @ And the LORD will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem."
rsv@Zechariah:3:9 @ For behold, upon the stone which I have set before Joshua, upon a single stone with seven facets, I will engrave its inscription, says the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the guilt of this land in a single day.
rsv@Zechariah:4:9 @ "The hands of Zerub'babel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also complete it. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
rsv@Zechariah:4:12 @ And a second time I said to him, "What are these two branches of the olive trees, which are beside the two golden pipes from which the oil is poured out?"
rsv@Zechariah:5:4 @ I will send it forth, says the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it shall abide in his house and consume it, both timber and stones."
rsv@Zechariah:5:7 @ And behold, the leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting in the ephah!
rsv@Zechariah:6:5 @ And the angel answered me, "These are going forth to the four winds of heaven, after presenting themselves before the LORD of all the earth.
rsv@Zechariah:6:7 @ When the steeds came out, they were impatient to get off and patrol the earth. And he said, "Go, patrol the earth." So they patrolled the earth.
rsv@Zechariah:7:7 @ When Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, with her cities round about her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited, were not these the words which the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets?"
rsv@Zechariah:7:14 @ "and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate."
rsv@Zechariah:8:9 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Let your hands be strong, you who in these days have been hearing these words from the mouth of the prophets, since the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.
rsv@Zechariah:8:13 @ And as you have been a byword of cursing among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you and you shall be a blessing. Fear not, but let your hands be strong."
rsv@Zechariah:8:20 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: Peoples shall yet come, even the inhabitants of many cities;
rsv@Zechariah:8:22 @ Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of the LORD.
rsv@Zechariah:8:23 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, `Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'"
rsv@Zechariah:9:1 @ An Oracle The word of the LORD is against the land of Hadrach and will rest upon Damascus. For to the LORD belong the cities of Aram, even as all the tribes of Israel;
rsv@Zechariah:9:6 @ a mongrel people shall dwell in Ashdod; and I will make an end of the pride of Philistia.
rsv@Zechariah:9:7 @ I will take away its blood from its mouth, and its abominations from between its teeth; it too shall be a remnant for our God; it shall be like a clan in Judah, and Ekron shall be like the Jeb'usites.
rsv@Zechariah:9:10 @ I will cut off the chariot from E'phraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall command peace to the nations; his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
rsv@Zechariah:9:11 @ As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your captives free from the waterless pit.
rsv@Zechariah:10:1 @ Ask rain from the LORD in the season of the spring rain, from the LORD who makes the storm clouds, who gives men showers of rain, to every one the vegetation in the field.
rsv@Zechariah:10:2 @ For the teraphim utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; the dreamers tell false dreams, and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for want of a shepherd.
rsv@Zechariah:10:9 @ Though I scattered them among the nations, yet in far countries they shall remember me, and with their children they shall live and return.
rsv@Zechariah:10:10 @ I will bring them home from the land of Egypt, and gather them from Assyria; and I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon, till there is no room for them.
rsv@Zechariah:11:8 @ In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.
rsv@Zechariah:12:3 @ On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it shall grievously hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will come together against it.
rsv@Zechariah:12:6 @ "On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they shall devour to the right and to the left all the peoples round about, while Jerusalem shall still be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem.
rsv@Zechariah:12:9 @ And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
rsv@Zechariah:12:10 @ "And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of compassion and supplication, so that, when they look on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a first-born.![[pBiblx2]](/img/pbiblx2_logo3.png){kind=logo}