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Hosea:1:2 @ When the LORD began to speak by Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea: "Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry And children of harlotry, For the land has committed great harlotry By departing from the LORD."
nkjv@Hosea:1:4 @ Then the LORD said to him: "Call his name Jezreel, For in a little while I will avenge the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, And bring an end to the kingdom of the house 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:1:9 @ Then God said: "Call his name Lo-Ammi, For you are not My people, And I will not be your God.
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:2:2 @ "Bring charges against your mother, bring charges; For she is not My wife, nor am I her Husband! Let her put away her harlotries from her sight, And her adulteries from between her breasts;
nkjv@Hosea:2:4 @ "I will not have mercy on her children, For they are the children of harlotry.
nkjv@Hosea:2:5 @ For their mother has played the harlot; She who conceived them has behaved shamefully. For she said, "I will go after my lovers, Who give me my bread and my water, My wool and my linen, My oil and my drink.'
nkjv@Hosea:2:6 @ "Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, And wall her in, So that she cannot find her paths.
nkjv@Hosea:2:7 @ She will chase her lovers, But not overtake them; Yes, she will seek them, but not find them. Then she will say, "I will go and return to my first husband, For then it was better for me than now.'
nkjv@Hosea:2:8 @ For she did not know That I gave her grain, new wine, and oil, And multiplied her silver and gold-- Which they prepared for Baal.
nkjv@Hosea:2:9 @ "Therefore I will return and take away My grain in its time And My new wine in its season, And will take back My wool and My linen, Given to cover her nakedness.
nkjv@Hosea:2:12 @ "And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, Of which she has said, "These are my wages that my lovers have given me.' So I will make them a forest, And the beasts of the field shall eat them.
nkjv@Hosea:2:13 @ I will punish her For the days of the Baals to which she burned incense. She decked herself with her earrings and jewelry, And went after her lovers; But Me she forgot," says the LORD.
nkjv@Hosea:2:14 @ "Therefore, behold, I will allure her, Will bring her into the wilderness, And speak comfort to her.
nkjv@Hosea:2:17 @ For I will take from her mouth the names of the Baals, And they shall be remembered by their name no more.
nkjv@Hosea:2:18 @ In that day I will make a covenant for them With the beasts of the field, With the birds of the air, And with the creeping things of the ground. Bow and sword of battle I will shatter from the earth, To make them lie down safely.
nkjv@Hosea:2:19 @ "I will betroth you to Me forever; Yes, I will betroth you to Me In righteousness and justice, In lovingkindness and mercy;
nkjv@Hosea:2:23 @ Then I will sow her for Myself in the earth, And I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; Then I will say to those who were not My people, "You are My people!' And they shall say, "You are my God!"'
nkjv@Hosea:3:1 @ Then the LORD said to me, "Go again, love a woman who is loved by a lover and is committing adultery, just like the love of the LORD for the children of Israel, who look to other gods and love the raisin cakes of the pagans."
nkjv@Hosea:3:2 @ So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver, and one and one-half homers of barley.
nkjv@Hosea:3:4 @ For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without ephod or teraphim.
nkjv@Hosea:4:1 @ Hear the word of the LORD, You children of Israel, For the LORD brings a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "There is no truth or mercy Or knowledge of God in the land.
nkjv@Hosea:4:3 @ Therefore the land will mourn; And everyone who dwells there will waste away With the beasts of the field And the birds of the air; Even the fish of the sea will be taken away.
nkjv@Hosea:4:4 @ "Now let no man contend, or rebuke another; For your people are like those who contend with the priest.
nkjv@Hosea:4:5 @ Therefore you shall stumble in the day; The prophet also shall stumble with you in the night; And I will destroy your mother.
nkjv@Hosea:4:6 @ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
nkjv@Hosea:4:9 @ And it shall be: like people, like priest. So I will punish them for their ways, And reward them for their deeds.
nkjv@Hosea:4:10 @ For they shall eat, but not have enough; They shall commit harlotry, but not increase; Because they have ceased obeying the LORD.
nkjv@Hosea:4:12 @ My people ask counsel from their wooden idols, And their staff informs them. For the spirit of harlotry has caused them to stray, And they have played the harlot against their God.
nkjv@Hosea:4:13 @ They offer sacrifices on the mountaintops, And burn incense on the hills, Under oaks, poplars, and terebinths, Because their shade is good. Therefore your daughters commit harlotry, And your brides commit adultery.
nkjv@Hosea:4:14 @ "I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, Nor your brides when they commit adultery; For the men themselves go apart with harlots, And offer sacrifices with a ritual harlot. Therefore people who do not understand will be trampled.
nkjv@Hosea:4:16 @ "For Israel is stubborn Like a stubborn calf; Now the LORD will let them forage Like a lamb in open country.
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:5:3 @ I know Ephraim, And Israel is not hidden from Me; For now, O Ephraim, you commit harlotry; Israel is defiled.
nkjv@Hosea:5:4 @ "They do not direct their deeds Toward turning to their God, For the spirit of harlotry is in their midst, And they do not know the LORD.
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:5:7 @ They have dealt treacherously with the LORD, For they have begotten pagan children. Now a New Moon shall devour them and their heritage.
nkjv@Hosea:5:12 @ Therefore I will be to Ephraim like a moth, And to the house of Judah like rottenness.
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:6:1 @ Come, and let us return to the LORD; For He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up.
nkjv@Hosea:6:3 @ Let us know, Let us pursue the knowledge of the LORD. His going forth is established as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, Like the latter and former rain to the earth.
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:6:5 @ Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of My mouth; And your judgments are like light that goes forth.
nkjv@Hosea:6:6 @ For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
nkjv@Hosea:6:9 @ As bands of robbers lie in wait for a man, So the company of priests murder on the way to Shechem; Surely they commit lewdness.
nkjv@Hosea:6:11 @ Also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed for you, When I return the captives of My people.
nkjv@Hosea:7:1 @ "When I would have healed Israel, Then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, And the wickedness of Samaria. For they have committed fraud; A thief comes in; A band of robbers takes spoil outside.
nkjv@Hosea:7:2 @ They do not consider in their hearts That I remember all their wickedness; Now their own deeds have surrounded them; They are before My face.
nkjv@Hosea:7:10 @ And the pride of Israel testifies to his face, But they do not return to the LORD their God, Nor seek Him for all this.
nkjv@Hosea:7:13 @ "Woe to them, for they have fled from Me! Destruction to them, Because they have transgressed against Me! Though I redeemed them, Yet they have spoken lies against Me.
nkjv@Hosea:7:14 @ They did not cry out to Me with their heart When they wailed upon their beds. "They assemble together for grain and new wine, They rebel against Me;
nkjv@Hosea:7:16 @ They return, but not to the Most High; They are like a treacherous bow. Their princes shall fall by the sword For the cursings of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
nkjv@Hosea:8:4 @ "They set up kings, but not by Me; They made princes, but I did not acknowledge them. From their silver and gold They made idols for themselves-- That they might be cut off.
nkjv@Hosea:8:6 @ For from Israel is even this: A workman made it, and it is not God; But the calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.
nkjv@Hosea:8:9 @ For they have gone up to Assyria, Like a wild donkey alone by itself; Ephraim has hired lovers.
nkjv@Hosea:8:11 @ "Because Ephraim has made many altars for sin, They have become for him altars for sinning.
nkjv@Hosea:8:12 @ I have written for him the great things of My law, But they were considered a strange thing.
nkjv@Hosea:8:13 @ For the sacrifices of My offerings they sacrifice flesh and eat it, But the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins. They shall return to Egypt.
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:9:1 @ Do not rejoice, O Israel, with joy like other peoples, For you have played the harlot against your God. You have made love for hire on every threshing floor.
nkjv@Hosea:9:4 @ They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, Nor shall their sacrifices be pleasing to Him. It shall be like bread of mourners to them; All who eat it shall be defiled. For their bread shall be for their own life; It shall not come into the house of the LORD.
nkjv@Hosea:9:6 @ For indeed they are gone because of destruction. Egypt shall gather them up; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their valuables of silver; Thorns shall be in their tents.
nkjv@Hosea:9:11 @ As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird-- No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!
nkjv@Hosea:9:15 @ "All their wickedness is in Gilgal, For there I hated them. Because of the evil of their deeds I will drive them from My house; I will love them no more. All their princes are rebellious.
nkjv@Hosea:10:1 @ Israel empties his vine; He brings forth fruit for himself. According to the multitude of his fruit He has increased the altars; According to the bounty of his land They have embellished his sacred pillars.
nkjv@Hosea:10:3 @ For now they say, "We have no king, Because we did not fear the LORD. And as for a king, what would he do for us?"
nkjv@Hosea:10:5 @ The inhabitants of Samaria fear Because of the calf of Beth Aven. For its people mourn for it, And its priests shriek for it-- Because its glory has departed from it.
nkjv@Hosea:10:6 @ The idol also shall be carried to Assyria As a present for King Jareb. Ephraim shall receive shame, And Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.
nkjv@Hosea:10:7 @ As for Samaria, her king is cut off Like a twig on the water.
nkjv@Hosea:10:10 @ When it is My desire, I will chasten them. Peoples shall be gathered against them When I bind them for their two transgressions.
nkjv@Hosea:10:12 @ Sow for yourselves righteousness; Reap in mercy; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the LORD, Till He comes and rains righteousness on you.
nkjv@Hosea:10:14 @ Therefore tumult shall arise among your people, And all your fortresses shall be plundered As Shalman plundered Beth Arbel in the day of battle-- A mother dashed in pieces upon her children.
nkjv@Hosea:11:9 @ I will not execute the fierceness of My anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim. For I am God, and not man, The Holy One in your midst; And I will not come with terror.
nkjv@Hosea:12:8 @ And Ephraim said, "Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself; In all my labors They shall find in me no iniquity that is sin.'
nkjv@Hosea:12:12 @ Jacob fled to the country of Syria; Israel served for a spouse, And for a wife he tended sheep.
nkjv@Hosea:12:14 @ Ephraim provoked Him to anger most bitterly; Therefore his Lord will leave the guilt of his bloodshed upon him, And return his reproach upon him.
nkjv@Hosea:13:2 @ Now they sin more and more, And have made for themselves molded images, Idols of their silver, according to their skill; All of it is the work of craftsmen. They say of them, "Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves!"
nkjv@Hosea:13:3 @ Therefore they shall be like the morning cloud And like the early dew that passes away, Like chaff blown off from a threshing floor And like smoke from a chimney.
nkjv@Hosea:13:4 @ "Yet I am the LORD your God Ever since the land of Egypt, And you shall know no God but Me; For there is no savior besides Me.
nkjv@Hosea:13:6 @ When they had pasture, they were filled; They were filled and their heart was exalted; Therefore they forgot Me.
nkjv@Hosea:13:13 @ The sorrows of a woman in childbirth shall come upon him. He is an unwise son, For he should not stay long where children are born.
nkjv@Hosea:13:16 @ Samaria is held guilty, For she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword, Their infants shall be dashed in pieces, And their women with child ripped open.
nkjv@Hosea:14:1 @ O Israel, return to the LORD your God, For you have stumbled because of your iniquity;
nkjv@Hosea:14:2 @ Take words with you, And return to the LORD. Say to Him, "Take away all iniquity; Receive us graciously, For we will offer the sacrifices of our lips.
nkjv@Hosea:14:3 @ Assyria shall not save us, We will not ride on horses, Nor will we say anymore to the work of our hands, "You are our gods.' For in You the fatherless finds mercy."
nkjv@Hosea:14:4 @ "I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely, For My anger has turned away from him.
nkjv@Hosea:14:9 @ Who is wise? Let him understand these things. Who is prudent? Let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right; The righteous walk in them, But transgressors stumble in them.
nkjv@Joel:1:5 @ Awake, you drunkards, and weep; And wail, all you drinkers of wine, Because of the new wine, For it has been cut off from your mouth.
nkjv@Joel:1:6 @ For a nation has come up against My land, Strong, and without number; His teeth are the teeth of a lion, And he has the fangs of a fierce lion.
nkjv@Joel:1:8 @ Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth For the husband of her youth.
nkjv@Joel:1:10 @ The field is wasted, The land mourns; For the grain is ruined, The new wine is dried up, The oil fails.
nkjv@Joel:1:11 @ Be ashamed, you farmers, Wail, you vinedressers, For the wheat and the barley; Because the harvest of the field has perished.
nkjv@Joel:1:13 @ Gird yourselves and lament, you priests; Wail, you who minister before the altar; Come, lie all night in sackcloth, You who minister to my God; For the grain offering and the drink offering Are withheld from the house of your God.
nkjv@Joel:1:15 @ Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is at hand; It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.
nkjv@Joel:1:16 @ Is not the food cut off before our eyes, Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
nkjv@Joel:1:17 @ The seed shrivels under the clods, Storehouses are in shambles; Barns are broken down, For the grain has withered.
nkjv@Joel:1:19 @ O LORD, to You I cry out; For fire has devoured the open pastures, And a flame has burned all the trees of the field.
nkjv@Joel:1:20 @ The beasts of the field also cry out to You, For the water brooks are dried up, And fire has devoured the open pastures.
nkjv@Joel:2:1 @ Blow the trumpet in Zion, And sound an alarm in My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; For the day of the LORD is coming, For it is at hand:
nkjv@Joel:2:2 @ A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick darkness, Like the morning clouds spread over the mountains. A people come, great and strong, The like of whom has never been; Nor will there ever be any such after them, Even for many successive generations.
nkjv@Joel:2:3 @ A fire devours before them, And behind them a flame burns; The land is like the Garden of Eden before them, And behind them a desolate wilderness; Surely nothing shall escape them.
nkjv@Joel:2:6 @ Before them the people writhe in pain; All faces are drained of color.
nkjv@Joel:2:7 @ They run like mighty men, They climb the wall like men of war; Every one marches in formation, And they do not break ranks.
nkjv@Joel:2:10 @ The earth quakes before them, The heavens tremble; The sun and moon grow dark, And the stars diminish their brightness.
nkjv@Joel:2:11 @ The LORD gives voice before His army, For His camp is very great; For strong is the One who executes His word. For the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; Who can endure it?
nkjv@Joel:2:12 @ "Now, therefore," says the LORD, "Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning."
nkjv@Joel:2:13 @ So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm.
nkjv@Joel:2:14 @ Who knows if He will turn and relent, And leave a blessing behind Him-- A grain offering and a drink offering For the LORD your God?
nkjv@Joel:2:18 @ Then the LORD will be zealous for His land, And pity His people.
nkjv@Joel:2:21 @ Fear not, O land; Be glad and rejoice, For the LORD has done marvelous things!
nkjv@Joel:2:22 @ Do not be afraid, you beasts of the field; For the open pastures are springing up, And the tree bears its fruit; The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.
nkjv@Joel:2:23 @ Be glad then, you children of Zion, And rejoice in the LORD your God; For He has given you the former rain faithfully, And He will cause the rain to come down for you-- The former rain, And the latter rain in the first month.
nkjv@Joel:2:31 @ The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD.
nkjv@Joel:2:32 @ And it shall come to pass That whoever calls on the name of the LORD Shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance, As the LORD has said, Among the remnant whom the LORD calls.
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:3:3 @ They have cast lots for My people, Have given a boy as payment for a harlot, And sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
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:3:9 @ Proclaim this among the nations: "Prepare for war! Wake up the mighty men, Let all the men of war draw near, Let them come up.
nkjv@Joel:3:12 @ "Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; For there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
nkjv@Joel:3:13 @ Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, go down; For the winepress is full, The vats overflow-- For their wickedness is great."
nkjv@Joel:3:14 @ Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
nkjv@Joel:3:16 @ The LORD also will roar from Zion, And utter His voice from Jerusalem; The heavens and earth will shake; But the LORD will be a shelter for His people, And the strength of the children of Israel.
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@Joel:3:21 @ For I will acquit them of the guilt of bloodshed, whom I had not acquitted; For the LORD dwells in Zion."
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:1:3 @ Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they have threshed Gilead with implements of iron.
nkjv@Amos:1:6 @ Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they took captive the whole captivity To deliver them up to Edom.
nkjv@Amos:1:9 @ Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, And did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.
nkjv@Amos:1:11 @ Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because he pursued his brother with the sword, And cast off all pity; His anger tore perpetually, And he kept his wrath forever.
nkjv@Amos:1:13 @ Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of the people of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they ripped open the women with child in Gilead, That they might enlarge their territory.
nkjv@Amos:2:1 @ Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because he burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime.
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:2:6 @ Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they sell the righteous for silver, And the poor for a pair of sandals.
nkjv@Amos:2:9 @ "Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, Whose height was like the height of the cedars, And he was as strong as the oaks; Yet I destroyed his fruit above And his roots beneath.
nkjv@Amos:2:10 @ Also it was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt, And led you forty years through the wilderness, To possess the land of the Amorite.
nkjv@Amos:2:14 @ Therefore flight shall perish from the swift, The strong shall not strengthen his power, Nor shall the mighty deliver himself;
nkjv@Amos:3:2 @ "You only have I known of all the families of the earth; Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities."
nkjv@Amos:3:4 @ Will a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? Will a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?
nkjv@Amos:3:5 @ Will a bird fall into a snare on the earth, where there is no trap for it? Will a snare spring up from the earth, if it has caught nothing at all?
nkjv@Amos:3:10 @ For they do not know to do right,' Says the LORD, "Who store up violence and robbery in their palaces."'
nkjv@Amos:3:11 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "An adversary shall be all around the land; He shall sap your strength from you, And your palaces shall be plundered."
nkjv@Amos:3:14 @ "That in the day I punish Israel for their transgressions, I will also visit destruction on the altars of Bethel; And the horns of the altar shall be cut off And fall to the ground.
nkjv@Amos:4:5 @ Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, Proclaim and announce the freewill offerings; For this you love, You children of Israel!" Says the Lord GOD.
nkjv@Amos:4:12 @ "Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel; Because I will do this to you, Prepare to meet your God, O Israel!"
nkjv@Amos:4:13 @ For behold, He who forms mountains, And creates the wind, Who declares to man what his thought is, And makes the morning darkness, Who treads the high places of the earth-- The LORD God of hosts is His name.
nkjv@Amos:5:2 @ The virgin of Israel has fallen; She will rise no more. She lies forsaken on her land; There is no one to raise her up.
nkjv@Amos:5:3 @ For thus says the Lord GOD: "The city that goes out by a thousand Shall have a hundred left, And that which goes out by a hundred Shall have ten left to the house of Israel."
nkjv@Amos:5:4 @ For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel: "Seek Me and live;
nkjv@Amos:5:5 @ But do not seek Bethel, Nor enter Gilgal, Nor pass over to Beersheba; For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, And Bethel shall come to nothing.
nkjv@Amos:5:8 @ He made the Pleiades and Orion; He turns the shadow of death into morning And makes the day dark as night; He calls for the waters of the sea And pours them out on the face of the earth; The LORD is His name.
nkjv@Amos:5:9 @ He rains ruin upon the strong, So that fury comes upon the fortress.
nkjv@Amos:5:11 @ Therefore, because you tread down the poor And take grain taxes from him, Though you have built houses of hewn stone, Yet you shall not dwell in them; You have planted pleasant vineyards, But you shall not drink wine from them.
nkjv@Amos:5:12 @ For I know your manifold transgressions And your mighty sins: Afflicting the just and taking bribes; Diverting the poor from justice at the gate.
nkjv@Amos:5:13 @ Therefore the prudent keep silent at that time, For it is an evil time.
nkjv@Amos:5:16 @ Therefore the LORD God of hosts, the Lord, says this: "There shall be wailing in all streets, And they shall say in all the highways, "Alas! Alas!' They shall call the farmer to mourning, And skillful lamenters to wailing.
nkjv@Amos:5:17 @ In all vineyards there shall be wailing, For I will pass through you," Says the LORD.
nkjv@Amos:5:18 @ Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! For what good is the day of the LORD to you? It will be darkness, and not light.
nkjv@Amos:5:23 @ Take away from Me the noise of your songs, For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.
nkjv@Amos:5:25 @ "Did you offer Me sacrifices and offerings In the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
nkjv@Amos:5:26 @ You also carried Sikkuth your king And Chiun, your idols, The star of your gods, Which you made for yourselves.
nkjv@Amos:5:27 @ Therefore I will send you into captivity beyond Damascus," Says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.
nkjv@Amos:6:5 @ Who sing idly to the sound of stringed instruments, And invent for yourselves musical instruments like David;
nkjv@Amos:6:6 @ Who drink wine from bowls, And anoint yourselves with the best ointments, But are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
nkjv@Amos:6:7 @ Therefore they shall now go captive as the first of the captives, And those who recline at banquets shall be removed.
nkjv@Amos:6:8 @ The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself, The LORD God of hosts says: "I abhor the pride of Jacob, And hate his palaces; Therefore I will deliver up the city And all that is in it."
nkjv@Amos:6:10 @ And when a relative of the dead, with one who will burn the bodies, picks up the bodies to take them out of the house, he will say to one inside the house, "Are there any more with you?" Then someone will say, "None." And he will say, "Hold your tongue! For we dare not mention the name of the LORD."
nkjv@Amos:6:11 @ For behold, the LORD gives a command: He will break the great house into bits, And the little house into pieces.
nkjv@Amos:6:13 @ You who rejoice over Lo Debar, Who say, "Have we not taken Karnaim for ourselves By our own strength?"
nkjv@Amos:7:1 @ Thus the Lord GOD showed me: Behold, He formed locust swarms at the beginning of the late crop; indeed it was the late crop after the king's mowings.
nkjv@Amos:7:2 @ And so it was, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said: "O Lord GOD, forgive, I pray! Oh, that Jacob may stand, For he is small!"
nkjv@Amos:7:4 @ Thus the Lord GOD showed me: Behold, the Lord GOD called for conflict by fire, and it consumed the great deep and devoured the territory.
nkjv@Amos:7:5 @ Then I said: "O Lord GOD, cease, I pray! Oh, that Jacob may stand, For he is small!"
nkjv@Amos:7:11 @ For thus Amos has said: "Jeroboam shall die by the sword, And Israel shall surely be led away captive From their own land."'
nkjv@Amos:7:13 @ But never again prophesy at Bethel, For it is the king's sanctuary, And it is the royal residence."
nkjv@Amos:7:16 @ Now therefore, hear the word of the LORD: You say, "Do not prophesy against Israel, And do not spout against the house of Isaac.'
nkjv@Amos:7:17 @ "Therefore thus says the LORD: "Your wife shall be a harlot in the city; Your sons and daughters shall fall by the sword; Your land shall be divided by survey line; You shall die in a defiled land; And Israel shall surely be led away captive From his own land."'
nkjv@Amos:8:6 @ That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of sandals-- Even sell the bad wheat?"
nkjv@Amos:8:7 @ The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob: "Surely I will never forget any of their works.
nkjv@Amos:8:8 @ Shall the land not tremble for this, And everyone mourn who dwells in it? All of it shall swell like the River, Heave and subside Like the River of Egypt.
nkjv@Amos:8:10 @ I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist, And baldness on every head; I will make it like mourning for an only son, And its end like a bitter day.
nkjv@Amos:8:11 @ "Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord GOD, "That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the LORD.
nkjv@Amos:9:4 @ Though they go into captivity before their enemies, From there I will command the sword, And it shall slay them. I will set My eyes on them for harm and not for good."
nkjv@Amos:9:6 @ He who builds His layers in the sky, And has founded His strata in the earth; Who calls for the waters of the sea, And pours them out on the face of the earth-- The LORD is His name.
nkjv@Amos:9:9 @ "For surely I will command, And will sift the house of Israel among all nations, As grain is sifted in a sieve; Yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground.
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:1:7 @ 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:1:10 @ "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:1:15 @ "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:1:18 @ 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@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:1:7 @ 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:1:10 @ 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: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:2:6 @ 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:2:8 @ "Those who regard worthless idols Forsake their own Mercy.
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: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:4:6 @ 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:4:8 @ 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@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:1:12 @ 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:1:16 @ 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:2:3 @ 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:2:5 @ 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:2:9 @ 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:2:13 @ 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:3:3 @ 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:3:6 @ "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:3:11 @ 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:4:2 @ 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:4:4 @ 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:4:7 @ 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:4:12 @ 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:5:2 @ "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:5:7 @ 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: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:6:4 @ 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:6:6 @ 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