THE ACTIVITY OF GOD IN THE BIBLE - HOSEA & JOEL

 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.

HOSEA

Chapter 1

1:1      The word of the Lord that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of       And God said/spoke;   God's word comes to His prophet;   

1:2      The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea.  And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredomes and children of whoredoms:   for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord.      And God said/spoke;   God's word begins to prophet;   God gives directive to Hosea to take a whore;    God is departed from;

1:4       And the Lord said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.      And God said/spoke;      God directs him what to call him, Jezreel;   I will's of God to avenge blood upon Jehu's house;   I will's of God to cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel;    

1:5        And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel, in the valley of Jezreel.     God declares what shall come to pass;   I will's of God to break bow of Israel;

1:6       And she conceived again, and bare a daughter.  And God said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah:  for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.     And God said/spoke;    God directs him what to call her;   I will's of God to no more have mercy;  I will's of God to utterly take them away;    

1:7      But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.      I will's of God to have mercy upon Judah;  I will's of God to save them by the Lord God;   I will's of God to not save them by bow, sword or battle or horsemen;  

1:9      Then said God, Call his name Loammi:  for ye are not My people, and I will not be your God.    And God said/spoke;    God directs what to call his name;   God declares they are not His people;   I will's of God to not be their God;

1:10       Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea. . . and it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not My people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.    God declares children of Isarel shall be as sand of sea;   God declares what shall come to pass;    God's people, not God's people;    God is living;   

Chapter 2

2:1    God directs him to speak to Ammi and Ruhamah;

2:2      Plead with your mother, plead:  for she is not My wife, neither am I her husband:  let her therefore put away her whoredoms. . . and her adulteries      God directs him to plead with them;   God declares she is not HIs wife;  God is not her husband;  God directs her to put away whoredoms and adulteries;

2:3      Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.      God warns of stripping them naked;  God wans of making them like a wilderness;   God warns of setting them as a dry land;  God warns of slaying them with thirst;

2:4      And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.     I will's of God to no have mercy upon children;

2:5     God heard and saw what they did against Him;

2:6      Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.    I will's of God to hedge up with thorns, make a wall and not allow them to find the path;

2:7    God keeps them from seeking and finding;  God reveals what they shall do;  Omnipresent; Omniscient;

2:8       For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold  which they prepared for Baal.    God gave them food, riches;  God saw what they did in taking HIs gifts and bestowing them to a false god, Baal;

2:9      Therefore will I return, and take away My corn in the time thereof, and My wine in the season thereof, and will recover My wood and My flax given to cover her nakedness.    I will's of God to trutn and take away all His gifts and blessings of provision;   God's corn; God's wine; I will's of God to recover His wood, His flax;  God gave them flax to cover nakedness;   

2:10      And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of Mine hand.     I will's of God to discover her lewdness;   God's hand;  God declares none shall deliver out of His hand;

2:11       I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.        I will's of God to stop and cause to cease all rejoicing and gatherings of celebration;

2:12      And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof shge hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me:  and I will make them a forest, and the beats of the field shall eat them.      I will's of God to destroy vines and fig trees that they used to worship and celebrate false gods;  God heard that they gave credit for blessings to their lovers rather than to Him;   I will's of God to make it turn into a forest to feed wild beasts;      

2:13        And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat Me, saith the Lord.   I will's of God to visit them for their folly with Baal;   God saw what they did;  God knew they went after them;   God was forsaken;   And God said/spoke;  

2:14     Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.      I will's of God to allure and bring them into wilderness;  God will speak comfortably to her;

2:15       And I will give her her vineyards from thence      I will's of God to give them vineyards;   God foretells what she shall do; Omnipresent;

2:16       And it shall be at the day, saith the Lord, that thou shalt call Me Ishi; and shalt call Me no more Baali.      God declares what shall be;  Omnipresent; Omniscient; And God said/spoke;    God to be called Ishi (Husbant);   God declares they shall not call Him any more, Baali (Master):

2:17       For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.      I will's of God to take away names of false gods out of their mouth;  God declares they shall no more remember those names;

2:18       And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground:  and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.      God declares in that day what will be;   I will's of God to make covenant for them;   I will's of God to break bow and sword and battle;   I will's of God to make them lie down safely;

2:19      And I will betroth thee unto Me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto Me in righteousenss, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.     I will's of God to betroth them unto Himself forever;  I will's of God to betroth them unto Him in righteousness, judgement, lovingkindness and mercies;

2:20      I will even betroth thee unto Me in faithfulness; and thou shalt know the Lord.     I will's of God to betroth them to Him in faithfulness;  God is to be known;

2:21      And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens and they shall hear the earth:      God declares what shall come to pass in that day;  I will's of God to hear heavens and earth;   And God said/spoke;

2:22    God declares what they shall hear;  

2:23      And I will sow her unto Me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not My people, Thou art My people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.      I will's of God to sow them unto HImself in the earth, a people;  I will's of God to have mercy upon those that had not obtained mercy;  I will's of God to say to them which were not His people, You are My people;   God declares they shall say to Him, Thou art my God.    And God said/spoke;

Chapter 3

3:1      Then said the Lord unto me, Go love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress; according to the love of the Lord toward the children of Israel, And God said/spoke;    God directs him to go to an adultress to witness against Israel  for what they had done against the Lord;   God's love toward them was rejected;    

3:4      God declares what Israel will be without;

3:5      Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and shall fear the Lord and His goodness in the latter days.      God declares that Israel shall return to Him;   God shall be sought;   God shall be feared;   God shall place King before them;   God's goodness shall be upon them in the latter days;

Chapter 4

4:1      Hear ye the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel:  for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.       God's word to be heard;   And God said/spoke;    God hath a controversy with the inhabitants of land;  God is not known, and there is no truth nor mercy;

4:2 - 3    God declares destruction upon them;

4:5        I will destroy thy mother.      I will's of God to destroy mother;   God speaks against them, prophet; and declares they shall fall;

4:6       My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:  because thou hast rejected knowledge.  I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to ME:: seeing thou ahst forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.      God's people are destroyed for lack of knowledge;   I will's of God treject them for they have rejected Him;   God rejects them from being priest to Him;   God's law forgotten;  I will's of God to forget their children because they have forgotten His law;

4:7       As they were increased, so they sinned against Me:  therefore will I change their glory into shame.      God is sinned against;   I will's of God to change their glory into shame;

4:8       They eat up the sin of My people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.     God's people eaten up;   God knows their hearts;

4:9       I will punish them for their wyas, and reward them their doings.     I will's of God to punish and reward them for their evil ways and doings;

4:10       for they have left off to take heed to the Lord.      God's ways are to be taken heed to;   God sees and knows they have left these things;

4:12        My people ask counsel at their stocks. . . .and they have gone, a whoring from under their God.      God's people ask counsel of idols;    God is left and the people have gone a whoring after idols;

4:13    God sees and knows their whoredoms to idols;  God speaks against daughters and spouses;

4:14       I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredoms      I will's of God to not punish them, but leave them to their own demise;

4:15      neither go ye up to Bathaven, nor swear, The Lord liveth.    God lives;   God rebukes them for swearing in His Name;
4:16       now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a large place.     I will's of God to feed them;
4:17    God says let her alone;    God knows their sin of idolatry;
Chapter 5
5:1     Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken ye house of Israel and give ye ear, O house of the king;      God gives directive for priests, Israel and king to hear Him;   
5:2       though I have been a rebuker of them all.    God has rebuke them;  God sees and knows what they have done;

5:3      I know Ephraim and Israel is not hid from Me:      God knows His children;   God states they are not hid from Him;  God sees and knows their folly and pronounces it against them;

5:4       They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God:  for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.    God tells them they will not turn unto Him;   God reveals they are given to their whoredoms against Him;   God is not known among them;

5:5    God reveals their sin of pride and that they shall fall;

5:6       They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the Lord; but they shall not find Him, He hath withdrawn Himself from them.     God sought but not found;   God has withdrawn Himself from them;

5:7     They have dealt treacherously against the Lord:      God is dealt treacherously against by His Own people;

5:8    God instructs them to blow the trumpet and cry aloud;

5:9     among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.     God makes known (manifest)   what shall be;  Omnipresent; Omniscient;

5:10      therefore I will pour out My wrath upon them like water.     I will's of God to pour out His wrath upon them;

5:12      Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.     I will's of God to be moth and rottenness upon them;

5:13   God saw what they did and their response;

5:14       For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion and as a young lion to the house of Judah:  I, even I will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.     I will's of God to be a lion against them;  I will's of God to tear and go away;  I will's of God to take away;   

5:15     I will go and return to My place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek My face:   in their affliction they will seek Me early.     I will's of God to go and return to His place;   God's place;   God's face to be sought;    God sought early in their affliction;   

Chapter 6 

6:1      Come and let us return unto the Lord; for He hath torn, and He will heal us; He hath smitten, and HE will bind us up.     God invites men to come and return to Him;   God tore;  I will's of God to heal us;   God smites;  I will's of God to bind us up;

6:2      After two days will He revive us:  in the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight.      I will's of God to revive us;   I will's of God to raise us up;   God's sight we shall live;

6:3       if we follow on to know the Lord:  His going forth is prepared as the morning; and He shall come unto us as the rain,      God to be known and followed;   God's going forth prepared;  God comes as rain;

6:4    O Ephraim what shall I do unto thee?  O Judah, what shall I do unto thee?    God asks question (2);   God asks what HE shall do unto them;

6:5       Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets,; I have slain them by the words of My mouth;       God hewed them by prophets;   God slew them by words of His mouth;  God's words;  God's mouth; And God said/spoke;

6:6      For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.    God desires mercy from men to be done;   God is to be known;

6:7       But they like men have transgressed the covenant:  there have they dealt treacherously against Me.     God's covenant transgressed;   God dealt treacherously against by them;

6:8 - 9    God declares their sins;

6:10     I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel:  there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.      God sees their horrible deeds;   God sees and knows land is defiled;

6:11      Also, O Judah, He hath set an harvest for thee, when returned the captivity of My people.    God sets harvest;   God's people returns to captivity;

Chapter 7

7:1      When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria:  for they commit falsehood;     God desired to heal them;  God saw and knew their sins that kept them from being healed;   

7:2       And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness; . . . they are before My face.      God remembers all wickedness;   God's face they are set before;

7:7       there is none among them that calleth unto Me.     God is not called upon by His Own people; 
7:8 -9   God speaks about their judgement and their unknowing condition;
7:10       and they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek Him for all this.     God is not returned to; God is not sought;
7:12       When they shall go, I will spread My net upon them: I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their ocngregation hath heard.     I will's of God to spread His net upon them;  God's net;  I will's of God to bring them down;  I will's of God to chastise them;
7:13     Woe unto them!  for they have fled from Me:  destruction unto them!  because they have transgressed against Me:  though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against Me.      God pronounces Woe upon them;  God is fled from by His Own people;   God declares destruction upon them;  God is transgressed against;    God redeemed them;   God is spoken lies against by His Own people;
7:14       And they have not cried unto Me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds:  . . . and they rebel against Me.     God is not cried unto with their heart;   God is rebelled against;   
7:15      Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against Me.    God bound and strengthened their arms;   God is imagined mischief against;
7:16       They return, but not to the most High:      God's Name - most High;   God is not returned to;  God pronounces their derision in Egypt;
Chapter 8

8:1       SEt the trumpet to thy mouth.  He shall come as an eagle agaisnt the hosue of the Lord, because they have transgressed My covenant, and trespassed against My law.     God directs them to set trumpet to mouth to forewarn and sound forth;   God to come against His house;  God's house;   God's covenant transgressed by people;   God's law trespassed against by people;

8:2       Israel shall cry unto Me, My God, we know Thee.     God declares what they shall do;  God is to be known;

8:4       They have set up kings but not by Me:  they have made princes, and I knew it not; of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they might be cut off.     God sees and knows that they have made and chose kings, princes and idols, but not by Him;   God declares that they are cut off;

8:5       MIne anger is kindled against them:  how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?      God's anger is kindled against them;  God asks the question;

8:6      For from Israel was it also:  the workman made it; therefore it is not God:  God is not made with hands of men;   God declares it shall be broken;

8:7 - 9   God declares what they have done in seeking nations, rather than Him;  God pronounces their end;

8:10     Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.     I will's of God to gather them;   God declares they shall sorrow;

8:11  God sees and knows and speaks agaisnt Ephraims sins of false altars;

8:12        I have written to him the great things of My law, but they were counted as a strange thing.    God wrote them;   God's law;  God sees and knows their response;  And God said/spoke;

8:13      They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of Mine offerings, and eat it; but the Lord accepteth them not:  now will He remember their iniquity, and visit their sins they shall return to Egypt.     God declares what they did against Him;   God's offerings;  God accepts them not;   I will's of God to remember their iniquity; I will's of God to visit their sins;  God pronounces they shall return to Egypt;
8:14       For Israel hath fogotten his Maker, . . . but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.     God's Name - Maker; God is forgotten by His Own people;   I will's of God to send fire up cities and devour;

Chapter 9

9:1      for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God      God has been forsaken by His people;  

9:3      They shall not dwell in the Lord's land;       God's land shall be emptied;   God declares they shall go into captivity;

9:4        They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord, neither shall they be pleasing unto Him:   . . . for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the Lord.       God declares they shall not offer wine offerings to Him;  God is not pleased with them;   God's house they shall not come into;
9:5       What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord?      God asks a question;  God's feast day;

9:8        The watchman of Ephraim was with my God; but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his wyas, and hatred in the house of his God.    God's watchman is with Him;  God's house filled with hatred;

9:9      therfore He will remember their iniquity, He will visit their sins.     I will's of God to remember their iniquity;   I will's of God to visit their sin;

9:10      I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time:  but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame;      God found Israel;  God saw their fathers;   God declares what they did in going to idols to bring shame;   

9:12      yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left; yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!      I will's of God to bereave them and not leave a man;  God pronounces Woe unto them;   God departs from them;         

9:13      Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus is planted in a pleastant place:  but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.     God saw them;  God declares what shall happen to them;
9:14       Give them, O Lord:  what wilt Thou give?  give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.     God is prayed;   God is asked to give them barrenness;

9:15       All their wickedness is in Gilgal:  for there I hated them:   for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of Mine house, I will love them no more:  all their princes are revolters.      God hated them;   I will's of God to drive them out of His house for their wickedness;  I will's of God to love them no more;   God's house;

9:16     yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.     I will's of God to slay their children;  

9:17       My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto Him      I will's of God to cast them away;   God was hearkened unto;

Chapter 10

10:2       He shall break down their altars, He shall spoil their images.      God shall break down their altars;   God shall spoil;   

10:3       For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the Lord; what then should a king do to us?     God is not feared;

10:10     It is My desire that I should chastise them     God's desire;  God desires to chastise them;

10:11      but I passed over upon her fair neck:  I will make Ephraim to ride;   God passes over her;   I will's of God to make Ephraim to ride;

10:12      for it is time to seek the Lord, till He come, and rain righteousness upon you.     God is to be sought;   God is to be sought till He comes;  God comes and rains righteousness;

10:13 - 15      God declares what they have done and what shall happen to them;

Chapter 11

11:1      When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called My son out of Egypt.     God loved them; God called them;  God's children;

11:3      I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.    God taught them to go;   God took them by their arms; God healed them;

11:4      I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love; and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.   God drew them with bands of love; God was to them as one that take yoke off;  God laid meat unto them;

11:5 - 6   God foretells their destruction and judgement;

11:7       And My people are bent to backsliding from Me:   though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt Him.    God's people bent on backsliding from Him;   God calls them; God would not be exatled by them;

11:8      How shall I give thee up, Ephraim?  how shall I deliver thee, Israel?   how shall I make thee as Admah?  how shall I set thee as Zeboim?  Mine heart is turned within Me, My repentings are kindled together.      God asks questions (4);    God's desire to not give them up;  God desire to deliver them;  God to make them;  God to set them; God's heart turned within Him;  God's repentings kindled together.

11:9      I will not execute the fierceness of Mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim:  for I am God, and not man; the HOly ONe in the midst of thee:  and I will not enter into the city.     I will's of God to not execute fierceness of His anger;  God's anger;  I will's of God to not return to destroy;  God is God, I AM; God is HOly One;  God in midst of them; I will's of God to not enter into city to destroy;

11:10       They shall walk after the Lord:  He shall roar like a lion:  when He shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.    God to be walked after;  God roars (2);  

11:11      I will place them in their houses, saith the Lord.    I will's of God to place them in their houses;  And God said/spoke;

11:12      Ephraim compasseth Me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit:  but JUdah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.     God knows their lies;  God sees their house of deceit; God declares Judah still rules with Him and faithful;

Chapter 12

12:2     The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will He recompense him.     God has a controversy;   I will's of God to punsih them for ways;   I will's of God recompense them for doings;

12:3     by his strength he had power with God;    God grants power ot His people;

12:4      he wept, and made supplication unto Him; He found him in Bethel, and there He spake with us;    God mad supplication to by Jacob;  God found, or he found God;  And God said/spoke;  God spoke with them;

12:5      Even the Lord God of hosts; the Lord is his memorial.    God is Lord God of hosts;   God is his memorial;

12:6      Therefore turn thou to thy God:  keep mercy and judgment and wait on thy God continually.    God to be turned to; God to be waited on continually;

12:9     And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.     God is I AM;  God is the Lord God; I will's of God to make them dwell in tabernacles;

12:10      I have spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.    God spoke by prophets;  And God said/spoke;   God multiplied visions;  God used similitudes;     

12:11   God asks a question;  God sees and knows what they have done;

12:13      And by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt     God's prophet brought them out of Egypt;  

12:14       Ephraim provoked Him to anger most bitterly:  therefore shall He leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.       God provoked to anger; God leave his blood and reproach upon them;  God shall return it upon them;

Chapter 13

13:1 - 3   God declares what they have done;  God sees and knows their sin; 

13:4      Yet I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but Me:  for there is no saviour beside Me.    God is I AM:  God is Lord God that brought them from Egypt;  God is to be known and no other god; God is the only savior, and there is none but Him;

13:5      I did know thee in the wilderness in the land of great drought.    God knows His people and their circumstances;

13:6     therefore have they forgotten ME.     God is forgotten by His Own people;

13:7     Therefore I will be unto them as a lion:  as a leopard by the way will I observe them:     I will's of God to be lion unto them;  I will's of God to observe them in the way as leopard;

13:8      I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion:  the wild beast shall tear them.     I will's of God to meet them;  I will's of God to rend them;  I will's of God to devour them and tear them;

13:9      but in Me is thine help.      God is our help;

13:10      I will be thy king:  where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities?   I will's of God to be King; God ask questions (2);

13:11       I gave thee a king in Mine anger, and took him away in My wrath.    God gives king in HIs anger;  God's anger;   God's wrath;  God took him away;

13:14      I will ransom them from the power of the grave;  I will redeem them from death:  O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction; repentance shall be hid from Mine eyes.   I will's of God to ransom them from power of grave; I will's of God to redeem them from death; I will's of God to be deaths plague; I will's of God to be graves destruction;  God's eye hid from repentance;

13:15      an east wind shall come, the wind of the Lord shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up:  He shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.     God's wind shall come up;  God shall dry up spring and fountain;  God spoil all treasure of pleasant vessels;

13:16      Samaria shall become desolate, for she hath rebelled against her God:       God rebelled against;  God pronounces judgement on them;

Chapter 14

14:1      O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.   God is to be returned to by His people;  God addresses why they need to return, fallen by iniquity;

14:2       Take with you words, and turn to the Lord:  say unto Him, Take away all iniquity ; and receive us graciously:  so will we render the calves of our lips.     God is to be turned to; God is to spoken to;   God is to asked to take away all iniquity and to receive us graciously;

14:3     for in Thee the fatherless findeth mercy.     God is mercy to the fatherless;    

14:4      I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely:  for Mine anger is turned away from him.    I will's of God to heal backsliding;  I will's of God to love them freely;  God's anger turned away;

14:5      I will be as the dew unto Israel:      I will's of God to be as dew upon Israel;  God declares what they shall be like;

14:6 - 7    God declares what Israel shall become;

14:8       Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols?  I have heard him, and observed him:  I am like a green fir tree.  From Me is thy fruit found.     God hears what they say and ask;  God heard them;  God observes them; God gives fruit, found in Him alone;

14:9       Who is wise, and he shall understand these things?  prudent, and he shall know them?>  for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them:  but the transgressors shall fall therein.     God ask question (2);  God's ways are right;  God directs the just to walk in His ways;  God declares transgressors shall fall in them;

JOEL

Chapter 1

1:1      The word of the Lord came to Joel the son of Pethuel.     And God said/spoke;   God's word comes to God's prophet;

1:2 - 5     God warns of that which has happened and that which is to happen;

1:6     For a nation is come up upon My land,    God's land;

1:7      He hath laid My vine waste, and barked My fig tree:       God's vine wasted;  God's fig tree stripped;
1:8    God gives instruction to lament;

1:9      The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's ministers, mourn.    God's house; God's ministers mourn;

1:10 - 12     God describes what has happened and been done to land and people;

1:13      Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests:  howl, ye ministers of the altar:  come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God:  for the meat offering and the drink offering is with holden from the house of your God.     God gives directive to gird themselves, lament, howl and come in sackcloth all night;   God's ministers;   God's house is cut off from meat and drink offering;

1:14      Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord.       God gives directive what they are to do - sanctify a fast, call solemn assembly, gather into house of Lord and cry;    God's house; God to be cried unto;
1:15      Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.    God's day of destruction is come;   God brings destruction;

1:16      Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?     God asks a question;  God's house is cut off from gifts;   

1:17 - 18    God tells what has happened;

1:19      O Lord, to Thee will I cry:  for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.          God is to be cried too; God to hear prayer/cry;

1:20      The beasts of the field cry also unto Thee:      God is cried to by beasts of field due to drought and fire;

Chapter 2

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 the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand;      God gives directive to blow trumpet;  God's holy mountain;   God's day cometh;

2:2 - 10   God describes the destruction and the desolation to come upon them;

2:11      And the Lord shall utter His voice before His army:  for His camp is very great:  for He is strong that executeth His Word:  for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?     God utters His voice;   God's voice;  God's army;  God's camp;  God's Word is executed;  and God said/spoke; God's day is great and terrible;

2:12      Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to Me with all your heart and with fasting and with weeping, and with mourning:    And God said/spoke; God to be turned to with all heart, fasting, weeping and mourning;    

2:13       And rend your heart and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God; for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteht Him of the evil.    God is to be turned to;  God is gracious, merciful, slow to anger; & great kindness;   God repents of the evil He thought to do;

2:14       Who knoweth if He will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind Him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the Lord your God?     I will's of God to return and repent;   God to leave a blessing behind Him;  God to turn to behind Him from what has already been; God to receive meat or drink offering;

2:15 - 16    God gives directive for what they are to do;

2:17     Let the priest, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare Thy people , O Lord, and give not Thine heritage to reproach. . . they say among the people, Where is their God?"        God's ministers and priests are given instruction as to what to do;  God's people are asked to be spared;   God's heritage are asked to not give them to reproach;   God is questioned as to where HE is;
2:18     Then will the Lord be jealous for HIs land, and pity His people.      I will's of God to be jealous for His land and people;  God's land;  God's people pitied;
2:19     YEa, the Lord will answer and say unto His people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith:  and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:     I will's of God to answer and say to His people;  God's people;  I will send food and drink to satisfy;  I will's of God to no more make them a reproach;
2:20      But I will remove far off from you the northern army and will drive him into a land barren and desolate,        I will's of God to remove northern army;  I will's of God to drive him into barren adn desolate land;
2:21      Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice:  for the Lord will do great things.    I will's of God to do great things;
2:23     rejoice in the Lord your God:  for He hath given you the former rain moderately, and He will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.     God is to be rejoiced in;  God has given rain;  I will's of God to cause rain to come down, former and latter rain;
2:25      AI will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten. . . My great army which I sent among you.      I will's of God to restore to them that which was destroyed;    God's great army which HE sent;  God sent them;
2:26      and praise the Name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you:  and MY people shall never be ashamed.     God's Name to be praised;  God dealt wondrously with them;  God's people never to be ashamed again;   
2:27      And ye shall know that I am in the midst of ISrael, and that I am the Lord your God, and none else:  and My people shall never be ashamed.       God to be known to be in midst of Israel;  God is the Lord God;  God's people shall never be ashamed;
2:28       And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:      I will's of God to pour out His Spirit upon all flesh;   God foretells what shall happen to young and old men;
2:29      in those days will I pour out My Spirit.    I will's of God to pour out His Spirit;  God's Spirit;
2:30      And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.     I will's of God to show wonders in heaven & earth and natural calamities;
2:31      before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come.     God's day is great and terrible and coming;
2:32     And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the Name of the Lord shall be delivered;  . . . as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call.      God tells what is to come to pass; Omniscient, Omnipresent; God's Name to be called upon;  God shall deliver them;  And God said/spoke;   God shall call the remnant;     
Chapter 3
3:1    For, behold, in those days, and int that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem.     God foretells what is to happen;  God shall bring again their captivity;   
3:2      I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for My people and for My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted My land.     I will's of God to gather all nations;  I will's of God to bring them down in to valley;   I will's of God to plead with them there for His people, HIs heritage;  God's people;  God's heritage Israel;  God's land parted;
3:3     And they have cast lots for My people     God's people cast lots for;
3:4     Yea, and what have ye to do with Me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine?  will ye render Me a recompence?  and if ye recompense Me, swiftly and speedily will I return you recompence upon your own head;     God asks them what they have to do with Him;  God asks them if they will render Him a recompence;  God recompense swiftly and speedily;  I will's of god to return a recompence upon their head;
3:5       Because ye have taken My silver and My gold, and have carried into your temples My goodly pleasant things:    God's silver and gold;  God's goodly pleasant things;   
3:7      Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head;     I will's of God to raise them out of place they have been fold;  I will's of god to return recompence upon their own head;     
3:8      And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, . . . for the Lord hath spoken it.     I will's of God to sell their children into hand of Judah;  And God said/spoke; 
3:9 - 10  God proclaims this to Gentiles;
3:11      cause Thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord.    God is sought to come down with His mighty ones;
3:12     for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.     I will's of God to sit and judge heathen;
3:14     for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.    God's day is near;
3:16      The Lord also shall roar out of Zion and utter His voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake but the Lord will be the hope of His people and the strength of the children of Israel.     God shall roar;   God's voice to utter;  I will's of God to be hope to His people and strength to Israel;   
3:17      So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain:     God is to be known as the Lord God;  God dwells in Zion;  God's holy mountain;  God tells who shall be there and who shall not;
3:18     and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord     God's house ushers forth a fountain;
3:19 - 20    God tells what shall be to nations and His people and answers why;
3:21     For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed:  for the Lord dwelleth in Zion.      I will's of God to cleanse blood;   God speaks of blood not cleansed;   God dwells in Zion;
       

Started:  December 9, 2020

Continued:  12/10;12/11;12/12;12/13;12/14;12/15;12/16;12/17;12/18;12/19;12/20;12/21;12/22;12/23;12/24;12/25

Finished:   December 25, 2020