Obadiah 1 The vision of Obadiah. Edom Will Be Humbled Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom:We have heard a report from the Lord,    and a messenger has been sent among the nations:“Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!”2 Behold, I will make you small among the nations;    you shall be utterly despised.3 The pride of your heart has deceived you,    you who live in the clefts …

Amos 7-9 Warning Visions 7 This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, he was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings. 2 When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said, “O Lord God, please forgive!    How can Jacob stand?    He is so small!”3 The Lord relented concerning this:    “It shall not be,” …

Amos 5-6 Seek the Lord and Live 5 Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel: 2 “Fallen, no more to rise,    is the virgin Israel;forsaken on her land,    with none to raise her up.” 3 For thus says the Lord God: “The city that went out a thousand    shall have a hundred left,and that which went out a hundred    shall have ten left    to the …

Amos 1-4 1 The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds 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. Judgment on Israel’s Neighbors 2 And he said: “The Lord roars from Zion    and utters his voice from Jerusalem;the pastures of the shepherds mourn,    and the top of Carmel withers.” 3 Thus …

Joel 1-3 1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel: An Invasion of Locusts 2 Hear this, you elders;    give ear, all inhabitants of the land!Has such a thing happened in your days,    or in the days of your fathers?3 Tell your children of it,    and let your children tell their children,    and their children to another generation. 4 What the cutting locust left,    the swarming locust has …

Hosea 11-14 The Lord’s Love for Israel 11 When Israel was a child, I loved him,    and out of Egypt I called my son.2 The more they were called,    the more they went away;they kept sacrificing to the Baals    and burning offerings to idols. 3 Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk;    I took them up by their arms,    but they did not know that I healed them.4 I led them with cords …

Hosea 9-10 The Lord Will Punish Israel 9 Rejoice not, O Israel!    Exult not like the peoples;for you have played the whore, forsaking your God.    You have loved a prostitute’s wages    on all threshing floors.2 Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them,    and the new wine shall fail them.3 They shall not remain in the land of the Lord,    but Ephraim shall return to Egypt,    and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria. 4 They …

Hosea 6-8 Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant 6 “Come, let us return to the Lord;    for he has torn us, that he may heal us;    he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.2 After two days he will revive us;    on the third day he will raise us up,    that we may live before him.3 Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord;    his going out is sure as …

Hosea 2-5 Israel’s Unfaithfulness Punished 2  Say to your brothers, “You are my people,” and to your sisters, “You have received mercy.” 2 “Plead with your mother, plead—    for she is not my wife,    and I am not her husband—that she put away her whoring from her face,    and her adultery from between her breasts;3 lest I strip her naked    and make her as in the day she was born,and make her like a wilderness,    and …

Hosea 1 1 The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. Hosea’s Wife and Children 2 When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the …