Books 28-32 --- Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obediah, and Jonah

Towards the end of The Old Testament, there are a lot of short books, and since I'm picking passages to illustrate every 3 pages roughly, many of these books only get one or two paintings depending on how long they are. 

Hosea 1:2 “In the beginning of the word of the LORD by Ho-se’-a. And the LORD said to Ho-se’-a, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD. So he went and took Go’mer the daughter of Dib-la’-im; which conceived and bare him a son.”

Hosea 14:8 “I have heard him and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.”

Amos 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 ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.”

Amos 8:1 “Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. And he said, A’-mos, 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 Is’-ra-el; I will not again pass by them any more. And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.”

Obediah 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, and they shall be as though they had not been.”

Micah 7:17 “They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.”

Nahum 1:2 “God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.”

Habakkuk 2:18 “What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.”

Zephaniah 1:2 “I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD. I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked: and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.”

Haggai 2:10 “In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Da-ri’-up, came the word of the LORD by Hag’-gai the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying, If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No. Then said Hag’-gai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.”

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