Joel 1

1 The word of theLordthat came to Joel the son of Pethuel. 2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or in the days of your fathers? 3 Tell ye your children of it, andletyour childrentelltheir children, and their children another generation. […]

Joel 2

1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of theLordcometh, for it is nigh at hand; 2 a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the dawn spread upon the mountains; […]

Joel 3

1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have […]

Hosea 1

1 The word of theLordthat came unto 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. 2 When theLordspake at the first by Hosea, theLordsaid unto Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of […]

Hosea 2

1 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah. 2 Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts; 3 lest I strip her naked, and set her […]

Hosea 3

1 And theLordsaid unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved ofherfriend and an adulteress, even as theLordloveth the children of Israel, though they turn unto other gods, and love cakes of raisins. 2 So I bought her to me for fifteenpiecesof silver, and an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley: 3 […]

Hosea 4

1 Hear the word of theLord, ye children of Israel: for theLordhath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 2 There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood […]

Hosea 5

1 Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, ye house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king, for unto you pertain the judgment; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. 2 And the revolters are gone deep in making slaughter; but I am a rebuker […]

Hosea 7

1 When I would heal Israel, then is the iniquity of Ephraim discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood: and the thief entereth in,andthe troop of robbers spoileth without. 2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now have their own doings beset them about; they […]