The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 13:13 (NIV)

Pains as of a woman in childbirth come to him,
but he is a child without wisdom;
when the time arrives,
he doesn’t have the sense to come out of the womb.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 13:14 (NIV)

‘I will deliver this people from the power of the grave;
I will redeem them from death.
Where, O death, are your plagues?
Where, O grave, is your destruction?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 13:15 (NIV)

‘I will have no compassion,
even though he thrives among his brothers.
An east wind from the Lord will come,
blowing in from the desert;
his spring will fail
and his well dry up.
His storehouse will be plundered
of all its treasures.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 13:16 (NIV)

The people of Samaria must bear their guilt,
because they have rebelled against their God.
They will fall by the sword;
their little ones will be dashed to the ground,
their pregnant women ripped open.’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 14:1 (NIV)

Return, Israel, to the Lord your God.
Your sins have been your downfall!

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 14:2 (NIV)

Take words with you
and return to the Lord.
Say to him:
‘Forgive all our sins
and receive us graciously,
that we may offer the fruit of our lips.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 14:3 (NIV)

Assyria cannot save us;
we will not mount war-horses.
We will never again say “Our gods”
to what our own hands have made,
for in you the fatherless find compassion.’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 14:4 (NIV)

‘I will heal their waywardness
and love them freely,
for my anger has turned away from them.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 14:5 (NIV)

I will be like the dew to Israel;
he will blossom like a lily.
Like a cedar of Lebanon
he will send down his roots;

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 14:6 (NIV)

his young shoots will grow.
His splendour will be like an olive tree,
his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 14:7 (NIV)

People will dwell again in his shade;
they will flourish like the corn,
they will blossom like the vine –
Israel’s fame will be like the wine of Lebanon.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 14:8 (NIV)

Ephraim, what more have I to do with idols?
I will answer him and care for him.
I am like a flourishing juniper;
your fruitfulness comes from me.’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 14:9 (NIV)

Who is wise? Let them realise these things.
Who is discerning? Let them understand.
The ways of the Lord are right;
the righteous walk in them,
but the rebellious stumble in them.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Joel 1:1 (NIV)

The word of the Lord that came to Joel son of Pethuel.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Joel 1:2 (NIV)

Hear this, you elders;
listen, all who live in the land.
Has anything like this ever happened in your days
or in the days of your ancestors?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Joel 1:3 (NIV)

Tell it to your children,
and let your children tell it to their children,
and their children to the next generation.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Joel 1:4 (NIV)

What the locust swarm has left
the great locusts have eaten;
what the great locusts have left
the young locusts have eaten;
what the young locusts have left
other locusts have eaten.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Joel 1:5 (NIV)

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep!
Wail, all you drinkers of wine;
wail because of the new wine,
for it has been snatched from your lips.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Joel 1:6 (NIV)

A nation has invaded my land,
a mighty army without number;
it has the teeth of a lion,
the fangs of a lioness.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Joel 1:7 (NIV)

It has laid waste my vines
and ruined my fig trees.
It has stripped off their bark
and thrown it away,
leaving their branches white.