THE ACTIVITY OF GOD IN THE BIBLE - AMOS & OBADIAH & JONAH & MICAH

 The Activity of God

Going through the Bible, book by book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse, phrase by phrase and word by word to give attention to the following:
--the Names of God;
--the word & deeds of God;
--the sayings of God;
--the attributes of God;

Too often the churches weakness and the Christians weakness is found in this one sin, 'we do not know God'.  We have not studied the Bible, nor Him to learn more of Him.  Seeking that this might be a help for myself and others in this pursuit that each of us 'may grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord.

AMOS
Chapter 1
1:2      And he said, The Lord will roar from Zion and utter His voice from Jerusalem:      I will's of God to roar;  God's voice to utter;

1:3     Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;    And God said/spoke;   I will's of God to not turn way punishment for their sin;

1:4      But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.     I will's of God to send fire to house of Hazael;   I will's of God to devour palaces;

1:5      I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden:  and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the Lord.     I will's of God to break, cut off;    God declares they shall go into captivity;  And God said/spoke;

1:6      Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof:       And God said/spoke;  I will's of God to not turn away punishment of Gaze;

1:7       But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:    I will's of God to send fire on Gaza to devour;

1:8      And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod. . . and I will turn Mine hand against Ekron; and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord God.     I will's of God to cut off inhabitants of Ashdod;  I will's of God to turn His hand against them;   God's hand;   And God said/spoke;

1:9      Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;       And God said/spoke;    I will's of God to not turn away punishment of Tyrus;

1:10     But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus; which shall devour the palaces thereof.      I will's of God to send a fire upon Tyrus;
1:11      Thus saith the Lord; For three trangressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept the wrath for ever.      And God said/spoke;  I will's of God to not turn away punishment for what they did;  God sees and knows that they did against His people;

1:12      But I will sned a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.    I will's of God to send fire and devour them;

1:13      Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:    And God said/spoke;  I will's of God to not turn away punishment for what they did;
1:14      But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:   I will's of God to kindle fire and devour them;

1:15      And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the Lord.     God declares their captivity;  And God said/spoke;

Chapter 2

2:1       Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions fo Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:    And God said/spoke;  I will's of God to not turn away punishment for what they did;

2:2      But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth:     I will's of God to send fire to devour;

2:3     And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the Lord.      I will's of God to cut off judge;   I will's of God to slay all princes;  And God said/spoke;  

2:4     Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Judah and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof:  because they have despised the law of the Lord, and have not kept His commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after, the which their fathers have walked:"      And God said/spoke; I will's of God to not turn away punishment;  God's law despised; God's commandments not kept; God knows what they do and what their fathers did, Omnipresent;

2:5      But I will send a fire upon Judah and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.     I will's of God to send fire and devour;

2:6      Thus saith the Lord, For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver and the poor for a pair of shoes;    And God said/spake; I will's of God to not turn away punishment of ISrael; God saw and knew what they did to the righteous and the poor;
2:7      to profane MY holy Name.    God's Holy Name profaned;   God sees and knows what they do, Omniscient;
2:9      Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I dstoryed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.     God destroyed Amorites; God destroyed his fruit;
2:10     Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness to posses the land of the Amorite.     God brought them up from Egypt;  God led them 40 years;

2:11      And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites.  Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel?  saith the Lord.    God raised up sons for prophets, and young men for Nazarites; God asks a question;  And God said/spoke;

2:12    God saw and knew what they did, Omniscient, Omnipresent;

2:13      Behold, I am pressed under you     God is pressed under them;

2:14 - 15   God speaks against them;

2:16     And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.    God declares what shall happen in that day;  And God said/spoke;

Chapter 3

3:1      Hear this word that the Lord hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,      God's word to be heard; God's word spoken against them;  God brought them up out of Egypt;  And God said/spoke;

3:2      You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.    God knew only them;    I will's of God to punish them for all their iniquities;

3:3 - 5     God asks a question;

3:6     Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid?  shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord that not done it?     God asks a question (2);   God did it; God sent evil upon a city;

3:7      Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth His secret unto His servants the prophets.     I will's of God to do nothing but first to reveal to His servants;  God reveals His secrets; God's secrets;  God's servants;

3:8      The lion hath reared, who will not fear?  the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?   God asks a question (2); And God said/spoke;

3:9   God gives directive to to nations;

3:10      For they know not to do right, saith the Lord, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.      And God said/spoke;    God sees and knows what they do;

3:11       Therefore thus saith the Lord God;      And God said/spoke;   God foretells what shall be against them;

3:12       Thus saith the Lord;   And God said/spoke;   God reveals Israel shall be taken out of enemies captivity;

3:13      Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord God, the God of hosts.    God directs them to hear and testify;  And God said/spoke;   God is the God of host;

3:14      That in that day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel:  and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.    God reveals what shall happen in that day, Omnsicent, Omnipresent;  God shall visit the iniquity of Israel;  I will's of God to visit the false altars of Bethel and destroy them;

3:15      And I will smite the winter house with the summer house: and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the Lord.      I will's of God to smite houses;  And God said/spoke;

Chapter 4

4:1    God gives directive for Israel to hear;

4:2     The Lord God hath sworn by His holiness that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that He will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.     And God said/spoke/swore; God swears by His holiness;  God is holy; I will's of God to take them away with hooks;

4:3     And ye shall go out at the breaches. . . and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the Lord.    God declares what shall happen;  And God said/spoke;

4:4    God sees and knows their idolatry;

4:5     for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord.    God sees and knows what Israel is doing;  And God said/spoke;

4:6    And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all yoru places:  yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith the Lord.    God gave them cleanness of teeth, want of bread;   God is not returned to;   And God said/spoke;

4:7      And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest:  and I caused it to rain upon on city, and caused it not to rain upon another city:     God withholds rain;  God causes rain upon one city, place, but not another;

4:8      so two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water, but they were not satisfied:  yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith the Lord.     God was not returned unto;  And God said/spoke;

4:9      I have smitten you  with blasting and mildew:  when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them:  yet have you not returned unto Me, saith the Lord.      God smote their crops with destruction; God is not returned unto; And God said/spoke; 

4:10    I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt:  your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils:  yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith the Lord.     God sent pestilence;  God slew young men;  God made camps to stink and come up into their nostrils;  God is not returned unto;  And God said/spoke;

4:11      I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning:  yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith the Lord.    God overthrows them;  God is not returned unto;  And God said/spoke;

4:12       Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel:  and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.     I will's of God to unto them;    I will's of God to do this because;  God is to be prepared to be met;  

4:13      For, lo, He that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is His thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The Lord, The God of hosts, is His Name.      God formed the mountains;  God created the wind;  God declares to men His thoughts;  God's thoughts;  God is the Lord, God of hosts; God's Name;

Chapter 5

5:1      Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.     God commands them to hear Him;  God takes up word against them, a lamentation;  And God said/spoke;

5:3      For thus saith the Lord God; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.     And God said/spoke;   God declares the demise of Israel;

5:4       For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek y Me, and ye shall live:     And God said/spoke;    God to be sought, in order to live;

5:5    God gives directive to not seek false ways;   

5:6      Seek the Lord, and ye shall live; lest He break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.    God to be sought, in order to live; God breaks out against them in fire to consume and none to quench;

5:8      Seek Him that maketh the seven starts and Orion and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night:  that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth:  The Lord is His Name.     God to be sought;  God made stars;  God turns shadow of death and mourning;   God makes day dark with night;  God calls waters to pour out on land;  God's Name is the Lord;     

5:9      That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.     God strengthens the spoiled;  

5:10 - 11    God hears and sees what they do to him that rebukes and speaks uprightly.    

5:12     For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins; they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate3 from their right.     God knows their transgressions and mighty sins;  God details how they impact others;       

5:14      Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live:  and so the Lord, the God of hosts shall be with you, as ye have spoken.     God gives directive to seek good;   God of hosts, the Lord - Name; God shall be with you;

5:15      Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate:  it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.       God gives directs to hate evil and love good, establish judgement; I will's of God to be gracious unto remnant;   

5:16      Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith  thus; WAiling shall be in all streets;     God's Name - Lord, God of hosts; And God said/spoke;   God declares what shall be;

5:17      And in all vineyards shall be wailing:  for I will pass through thee, saith the Lord.     I will's of God to pass through;  God declares there shall be wailing;  And God said/spoke;

5:18      Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you:  the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.    God pronounces Woe;   God's day of the Lord is judgement and darkness (2);  5:20      Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light?    God's day is darkness; God asks a question (2) in this verse;

5:21      I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.     God hates; God despises; I will's of God to not smell;

5:22      Though ye offer Me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them:  neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.     God offered burnt offerings and meat offerings;  I will's of God to not accept them;   I will's of God to not regard them;

5:23       TAke thou away from Me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.     God gives directive to take songs away from Him; I will's of God to not hear melody;

5:24    God declares what should be;

5:25       Have ye offered unto Me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?   God asks questions (2);   God asks if they sacrificed unto Him;

5:26   God sees and knows their idolatry against Him;

5:27    Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose name is The God of hosts.     I will's of God to cause them to go into captivity;  And God said/spoke;  God's Name - The God of hosts;

Chapter 6

6:1      Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria,      God pronounces Woe to those at ease in Zion;

6:2    God asks a question (2);

6:3 - 7   God pronounces what they do; God sees and knows;

6:8      The Lord God hath sworn by Himself, saith the Lord the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency  of Jacob, and hate his palaces:  therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.      God swore by Himself;  And God said/spoke;   God abhors them;  God hates their palaces;   I will's of God to deliver up city and all within it;

6:9 -10   God declares what shall be;

6:10      for we may not make mention of the name of the Lord.     God's Name to be made mention; God is rejected by them;

6:11      For, behold, the Lord comamndeth, and He will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.     the Lord commanded;  I will's of God to smite them;

6:12 - 13     God asks a question (3);   

6:14      But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the Lord the God of hosts;      I will's of God to raise up against them;  and God said/spoke;

Chapter 7

7:1       Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me; and behold, He formed grasshoppers      And God said/spoke;    God formed grasshoppers to send them against them;

7:2       O Lord God, forgive, I beseech Thee; by whom shall Jacob arise?  for he is small.     God is asked to forgive;  God is besought; 

7:3     The Lord repented for this:  It shall not be, saith the Lord.     God repents;   God declares it shall not be;  and God said/spoke;

7:4     Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me:  and, behold, the Lord God called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.      God showed him;  God called to contend by fire;   God's fire devoured;

7:5       Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech Thee:  by whom shall Jacob arise?  for he is small.   God is asked to cease;   God is besought;   

7:6       The Lord repented for this:  This also shall not be, saith the Lord God.     God repents;   God declares it shall not be;  And God said/spoke;

7:7      Thus He shewed me:  and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.      God showed him;   God stood upon a wall with a plumbline in HIs hand;  God's hand;   

7:8      And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou?  And I said, A plumbline.  Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of MY people Israel:  I will not again pass by them any more:    And God said/spoke (2);  God asks him a question;  I will's of God to set a plumbline in midst of Israel;  God's people;   I will's of God to not again pass by them any more;

7:9      and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.    I will's of God to rise against house of Jeroboam with sword;

7:15      And the Lord took me as I followed the flock, and the Lord said unto me, Go, prophesy unto My people Israel.     God took him and made him a prophet;  And God said/spoke;  God give him directive to go an prophesy to Israel;

7:16      Now therefore hear thou the word of the Lord:  Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel,    God's word;  And God said/spoke;   

7:17      Therefore thus saith the Lord; And God said/spoke;   God speaks against Amaziah and his family and Israel;

Chapter 8

8:1      Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me:  and behold a basket of summer fruit.    God showed him;

8:2      And He said, Amos, what seest thou?  And I said, A basket of summer fruit.  Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon My people of Isarel; I will not again pass by them any more.    And God said/spoke (2);   God asks him a question;  God declares the end is come to Israel;   God's people;  I will's of God to not pass by them any more;

8:3      And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God:    And God said/spoke;   God decalres death upon them;

8:4    God gives directive for them to hear this for what they have done;

8:5 - 6    God hears what they ask for their sin;  Omniscient; Omnipresent;

8:7      The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.    And God said/spoke/swore;   I will's of God to never forget their works;

8:8   God asks a question regarding their judgment for their sin;

8:9      And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:    God declares what shall come to pass;  and God said/spoke;   I will's of God to cause sun to go down at noon;  I will's of God to darken the earth on clear day;

8:10      And I will turn your feasts into mounring, and all your songs  into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end, thereof as a bitter day.     I will's of God's to turn feasts into mourning;  I will's of God to bring sackcloth and baldness;  I will's of God to make mourning as a bitter day;

8:11      Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord:   And God said/spoke;   I will's of God to send famine of His Word and a thirst of His Word;  God's word not heard;

8:12      they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.    God's word sought but not found;

Chapter 9

9:1      I saw the Lord standing upon the altar; and He said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake; and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword:       God standing upon altar;   And God said/spoke;   God gives directive to smite and cut them;  I will's of God to slay with the sword;

9:2      Though they dig into hell, thence shall Mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down;     God's hand shall take them;  I will's of God to bring them down;

9:3      And thought they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from My sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:     I will's of God to search and take them out;   God's sight hid from;  I will's of God to command and he shall bite;  the Lord commanded;  

9:4       And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them and I will set Mine eyes upon them for evil and not for good.     I will's of God to command sword to slay them;  the Lord commanded;   I will's of God to set His eyes upon them for evil;  God's eyes to se them;

9:5     And the Lord God of hosts is He that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn:  and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.    God's Name - Lord God of hosts;  God touches the land; 

9:6       It is He that buildeth His stories in the heaven, and hath founded His troop in the earth:  He that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth:  The Lord is His Name.    God builds His stories in heaven;  God's stories in heaven;  God founds HIs troops in earth;   God's troops;  God calls for waters and pours them upon earth;;   God pours them;  God's Name - The Lord;

9:7       ARe ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto Me, O children o Israel?   saith the Lord.  Have not I borught up Israel out of the land of Egypt?  and the Philisteines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?     God asks a question (3);    God's children compared to others;   And God said/spoke;  God brought them up out of Egypt, and other nations;

9:8       Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth:   saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the Lord.    God's eyes upon sinful kingdom;  I will's of God to destroy it;   I will's of God to not utterly destroy house of Jacob;  And God said/spoke;

9:9      For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations      the Lord commanded;  I will's of God to command;  I will's of God to sift house of Israel;

9:10    All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword, which say     God's people shall die by sword;  God sees those of His people that are sinners;   God hears what they say;

9:11      IN that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his rains, and I will build it as in the days of old:     I will's of God to raise up tabernacle of David;   I will's of God to raise up rains;  I will's of God to build it as in days of old;

9:12       which are called by My Name, saith the Lord that doeth this.     God's people called by His Name;  And God said/spoke;   God does it;

9:13      Behold, the days come, saith the Lord; that the plowman shall overtake the reaper      God declares what shall be in days to come;  Omniscient; Omnipresent;  And God said/spoke;   God declares days of blessings;  

9:14       And I will bring again the captivity of My people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities       I will's of God to bring His people back from captivity;  God's people of Israel;   God declares rebuild and restore;

9:15       And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God.       

OBADIAH
Chapter 1

1:1       The vision of Obadiah.  Thus saith the Lord God concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the Lord      And God said/spoke;   God speaks concerning Edom;   God caused them to hear a rumour;   

1:2      Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen;     God made them small;

1:3   God sees and knows their pride;  God hears what they say;

1:4      thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.    I will's of God to bring them down;  And God said/spoke;     

1:8      Shall I not in that day, saith the Lord, even destroy the wise men out of Edom and understanding out of the mount of Esau?      God asks a question;   And God said/spoke;   God in that day shall destroy wise men and understanding out of them; 

1:9   God declares their end;

1:10 - 12   God tells why they are being judged;

1:13     Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of My people in the day of their calamity;    God's people;   God sees and knows what they did against them;

1:14     God sees and knows what they did; 

1:15      For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen:  as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee:  thy reward shall return upon thine own head.     God's day;  

1:16      For as ye have drunk upon My holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down,      God's holy mountain;  God sees and knows what they did;

1:17    God pronounces deliverance for Zion;

1:18     there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the Lord hath spoken it.    And God said/spoke;   God speaks against Esau and toward house of Jacob;

1:19 - 20   God foretells what shall be for Israel against all the other nations;

1:21      And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord's.    God pronounces what shall be;  God declares that they shall be His kingdom;

JONAH
Chapter 1

1:1      Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,      God's word comes to His prophet;   And God said/spoke;

1:2       Arise, go to Nineveh. . . and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before Me.     God gives directive to arise and go and cry against it;   God states that their wickedness is come up before them;

1:3      But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord . . . to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.     God's Presence fled from (2);

1:4       But the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea and there was a mighty tempest in the sea     God sends wind and tempest against them;

1:6      What meanest thou, O sleeper?  arise, call upon thy God, if so be taht God will think upon us, that we perish not.     God is to be called upon;   I will's of God to think upon us that we perish not;

1:9       I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.      God is to be feared;  God made heaven, earth and sea;  God is God of heaven;

1:10     the men knew that he fled from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them.     God's Presence fled from;

1:14       We beseech Thee, O Lord, we beseech Thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood:  for Thou, O Lord, hast done as it pleased Thee.    God is to be besought (2);  God sees and hears their cry and need;   Please God;  God does as He pleases;

1:16      Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the Lord, and made vows.     God to be feared;  God sacrificed to;   God hears and knows their vows made unto Him;

1:17      Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.  And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.    God prepared fish;  Messianic prophecy of 3 days and nights as Christ;

Chapter 2

2:1      Then JOnah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly,    God prayed to by His servant; 

2:2      I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and HE heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and Thou heardest my voice.      God is cried to in affliction;  God heard him (2);

2:3     For Thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about:  all Thy billows and Thy waves passed over me.    God cast him into deep;  God's billows and waves passed over him, Glod's judgement;

2:4      Then I said, I am cast out of Thy sight; yet I will look again toward Thy holy temple.     God's sight;  God's holy temple;

2:6      yet hast Thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.    God brought him up from corruption;  God is the Lord God and his';

2:7      when my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord and my prayer came in unto Thee, into Thine holy temple.       God is remembered;  God receives prayer from His servant;  God's holy temple;

2:9       But I will sacrifice unto Thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed.  Salvation is of the Lord.     God is sacrificed unto with voice of thanksgiving;  God vowed before, to; God is salvation, Salvation is of the Lord;

Chapter 3

3:1      And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying,      God's Word comes to God's prophet;   And God said/spoke;

3:2    Arise, go unto Nineveh, . . and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.   God gives directive to arise and go and preach to them;   God bid him what ot preach;

3:3       according to the word of the Lord.    God's word is obeyed;  And God said/spoke;

3:5       So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast,       God's Word of warning is believed;  

3:5 - 7     God's word is obeyed by all;

3:8      But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God:  yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands;    God is to be mightily cried unto;   God sees and knows if men repent from their evil and violence;

3:9       Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from His fierce anger, that we perish not?       I will's of God to turn and repent;  God's fierce anger;

3:10       And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that He had said that He would od unto them; and He did it not.      God sees the works that they repented of evil way;  God repents;  And god said/spoke;  God did not bring judgement upon them;

Chapter 4

4:2      And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray Thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, . . . for I knew that Thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest Thee of the evil.     God is prayed unto; God hears prayers; God is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness;  God repents of evil that He may do to men;    

4:3      Therefore  now, O Lord, take I beseech Thee, my life from me;      God is petitioned to takes his life from him; God is besought;

4:4      Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry?     And God said/spoke;  God asks a question;  God knows he is mad (intent);

4:6       And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief.       God prepared gourd;  God made it come up over him;

4:7      But God prepared a worm, when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.        God prepares worm to smite the gourd; 

4:8      And it came to pass when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind;     God prepares east wind to afflict JOnah;  

4:9       And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd?      And God said/spoke;  God asks a question;  God knows his intent;

4:10      Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd;     And God said/spoke;   God knows his intents (pity);

4:11      And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city,         God asks a question; God spares city;  God knows what is within the city of people and how many; Omniscient; 

  

MICAH

Chapter 1

1:1      The word of the Lord that came to Micah . . . which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.     God's word comes to His prophet;  And god said/spoke;    God opened his vision to see concerning two places;
1:2       Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is:  and let the Lord God be witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.    God gives directive for His people to hear Him;  God is witness against them;  God's Holy temple;

1:3     For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of His place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.      God comes forth from His place;  God's place;  I will's of God to come down and tread;   God tread the high places;
1:4       And the mountains shall be molten under Him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as was before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.      God has under Him mountains molten;

1:6       Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard:  and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.     I will's of God to make Samaria an heap;  I will's of God to pour down stones;  I will's of God to discover foundations;

1:7       and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate:       I will's of God to lay all idols desolate;  

1:8       Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked:  I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.     I will's of God to wail and howl;  I will's of God to go stripped and naked;  I will's of God to make wailings and mournings;    

1:9      for he is come unto the gate of My people, even to Jerusalem.    God's people;

1:12      but evil came down from the Lord unto the gate of Jerusalem.     God sent evil down upon Jerusalem;

1:15      Yet will I bring an heir unto thee;     I will's of God ot bring an heir unto them;

Chapter 2

2:1      Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds!     God pronounces Woe to those of iniquity and evil;

2:3       Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks;    And God said/spoke;   God devises evil against them;   God tells them shall not escape it;

2;4       IN that day . . . WE be utterly spoiled:  HE hath changed the portion of My people:  how hath He removed it from me! turning away He hath divided our fields.    God declares of that day;   God people's portion changed;  God allows removing of it;  God allows dividing of fields;

2:5       in the congregation of the Lord     God's congregation;

2:6    God gives directive for them to prophecy not;

2:7       O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the Lord straitened?  are these His doings?  do not My words do good to him that walketh uprightly?      God asks 3 questions;  God's sprit straitened; God's doings; God's words do good to those that walk upright;   

2:8      Even of late My people is risen up as an enemy:      God's people rise up as an enemy;  God sees and knows what they do;

2:9       The women of My people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away My glory for ever.    God's people cast out women; God's glory taken from children;

2:10       God gives directive to arise and depart;     

2:11  God reveals what kind of prophet they will receive;

2:12       I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep fo Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold:     I will's of God to assemble all of Jacob;   I will's of God to gather remnant of Irsael;  I will's of God to put them together;

2:13      and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord on the head of them.     God declares what shall happen;  God is head of them;

Chapter 3

3:1       And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?     And God said/spoke;   God asks a question;  

3:2 - 3   God reveals what they are and what they do;

3:3    Who also eat the flesh of My people     God's people are destroyed;

3:4       Then shall they cry unto the Lord, but He will not hear them:  He will even hide His face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.    God is cried unto;  God foretells what shall be;  Omniscient, Omnipresent;  I will's of God to not hear them;  I will's of God to hide His face from them;   God's face hidden;

3:5       Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make My people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace;      And God said/spoke;   God's people made to err; God sees and hears what they do and say;

3:7       for there is no answer of God.     God refuses to answer them;

3:8      But truly I am full of power, by the spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.    God's Spirit is power, judgement, might and power to declare to His people their transgression and sin;

3:9 - 10     God gives directive to leaders and reveals what they did 

3:11     yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us?  none evil can come upon us.     God sought to be leaned upon in their falsehood;  God is questioned of whether He is among them or not;

3:12    God pronounces destruction of Zion and Jerusalem;

Chapter 4   
4:1     But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains    God declares and reveals what shall be in last days and what shall come to pass;  God's house in the mountains shall be established;   

4:2      let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of  the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of HIs ways, and we will walk in His paths:  for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jeruslaem.      God's mountain; God's house; God of Jacob; I will's of God to teach us His ways;  God's ways;  God's paths to be walked in;  And God said/spoke;

4:3      And He shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off;      God judge people; God rebuke nations; God reveals what shall be;   

4:4      for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.    God's mouth spoken it;  And God said/spoke;

4:5      we will walk in the Name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.     God's Name;  God's Name and ways walked in forever;

4:6      IN that day, saith the Lord, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;       God declares that day;  And God said/spoke;   I will's of God to assemble; I will's of God to gather those He afflicted;  God afflicted;

4:7      and I will make her that halted a remnant and her that was cast far off a strong nation:  and the Lord shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.      I will's of God to make them a strong nation;  God reigns over them in mount Zion for ever;    

4:8 -  10    God foretells what shall be for them;

4:10       there the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.     God delivers from hand of their enemies;

4:11     God hears what they say against His people;

4:12    But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither understand they His counsel:  for He shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.     God's thoughts not known;   God's counsels not understood; God shall gather them ;

4:13      I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass:   . . . I will consecrate their gain unto the Lord, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.    I will's of God to make them iron;   I will's of God to make their hoofs brass;  I will's of God to consecrate their gains unto the Lord; God is God of whole earth;   God receives their substance; 

Chapter 5

5:1   God gives a directive;

5:2      But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall He come forth unto Me that is to be ruler in Israel; Whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.     Messianic prophecy;  Christ is to come forth;   God's goings forth have been of old and everlasting;

5:3     Therefore will He give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought froth:  then the remnant of His brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.    I will's of God to give them up;  God's remnant brethren;

5:4      And He shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God; and they shall abide; for now shall He be great unto the ends of the earth.     God shall stand and feed in strength of Lord;  God's strength;  God's name is majestic; God is great unto ends of earth;

5:5     And this man shall be the peace     Christ is the man of peace;

5:7      And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the Lord,      God's remnant throughout;

5:8    God's remnant;

5:9      Thine hand shall be lifted up upon Thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.     God's hand shall be lifted up upon HIs adversaries;  God's adversaries;   God's enemies cut off;

5:10      And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:     God declares what shall come to pass;  God declares of that day;  And God said/spoke;   I will's of God to cut off ;   I will's of God to destroy ;

5:11      And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds:     I will's of God to cut off and throw down;

5:12      And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shal have no more soothsayers:     I will's of God to cut off 

5:13      Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands,    I will's of God to cut off idols;   God degrees no more worship of idols;

5:14       And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee:  so will I destroy thy cities.     I will's of God to pluck up groves;  I will's of God to destroy cities;

5:15       And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.     I will's of God to execute vengeance in anger and fury;

Chapter 6

6:1    Hear ye now what the Lord saith:  Arise, content thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear Thy voice.    God's voice to be heard;  And God said/spoke;   God gives directive to arise and hear HIs voice;  God's voice;

6:2      Hear ye, O mountains, the Lord's controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth:  for the Lord hath a controversy with His people, and HE will plead with Israel.    God gives directive for them to hear Him;  God's controversy with them (2);   God's people;  I will's of God to plead with them;

6:3      O My people, what have I done unto thee?  and wherein have I wearied thee?  testify against Me.    God's people;  God asks two questions;   God's done; God's wearied;  God asks them to testify against Him;

6:4     For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee MOses, Aaron, and Miriam.    God brought them up out of Egypt; God released them out of servant;  God sent before them Moses, Aaron and Miriam;

6:5      O My people, remember now what . . . that ye may know the righteousness of the Lord.    God's people;  God gives directive for them to remember what He did;  God's righteousness to be known;

6:6      Wherefore shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God?  shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, and with calves of a year old?    God asks two questions;  God before God;   God to be bowed before;   God come before with offerings;

6:7      Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil?  shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?     God asks two questions;  I will's of God to be pleased with sacrifices of rams and oil;  God's Messianic prophesy of giving HIs firstborn for sins;

6:8      He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?     God asks a question;    God showed them what is good;  God requires for them to do justly to love mercy and to walk humbly with Him;   God is to be humbly walked with;

6:9     The Lord's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name:  hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.     God's voice crieth unto them;  God appoints it;

6:10   God asks a question;   

6:11     Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?    God asks a question; God sees and knows their wickedness and deceitfulness;

6:12    God sees and hears their evil;

6:13      Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.   I will's of God to make them sick of His smiting them; 

6:14     and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.     I will's of God to deliver them up to the sword;   God foretells what shall be for them;

6:15    God pronounces what shall be for them;

6:16      that I should make thee a desolation and the inhabitants thereof an hissing:  therefore ye shall bear the reproach of My people.    God make them a desolation, hissing and a reproach;   God's people

Chapter 7

7:1     Woe is me!     God pronounces woe upon them;

7:1 - 4     God reveals what they are and what is coming;

7:5    God gives directive to them;

7:6   God reveals what they do;

7:7     Therefore I will look unto the Lord:  I will wait for the God of my salvation:  my God will hear me.     God is to be looked; God is to be waited for;  God is salvation; I will's of God ot hear His servants;
7:8     when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.    God is light to those that sit in darkness;
7:9     I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against Him, until He plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: He will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold His righteousness.    God's indignation to be bore;  God sinned against; God to plead cause and execute judgment;  I will's of God to bring him to light;  God righteousness to behold;
7:10      and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the Lord thy God?        God's help and presence is questioned by heathen;
7:11 - 13     God declares what shall be 'in that day ';   God foretells desolation;
7:14      Feed Thy people with Thy rod, the flock of Thine heritage     God's flock;  God's rod;  God's heritage;

7:15      will I shew unto him marvellous things.    I will's of God to show marvellous things;

7:17      they shall be afraid of the Lord our God, and shall fear because of Thee.    God is to be feared (2);  

7:18     Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth iniquity and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage?  He retaineth not His anger for ever, because He delighteth in mercy.     God is like unto none else; God pardons iniquity;  God passes by iniquity of His heritage;   God's heritage;   God retains not HIs anger forever;  God's anger;   God delights in mercy;

7:19      He will turn again, He will have compassion upon us; He will subdue our iniquities; and Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.     I will's of God to turn again;  I will's of God to have compassion;  I will's of God to subdue iniquity;   I will's of God to cast sins into depths of sea;

7:20      Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which Thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.      I will's of God to perform truth to Jacob;   I will's of God to perform mercy to Abraham;   And God said/spoke/swore;

                 

Started:  December 25, 2020

Continued:  12/26;12/27;12/28;12/29;12/30;12/31;1/1/21;1/2;1/3;1/4;1:5;1/6;1/7;1/8;1/9;1/10;1/11;1/12;1/13;

Finished:   January 13, 2021