Welcome to Windber PA's First Assembly of God's The Sunday School Lesson The Pain of Broken Covenants by David McGee Page

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The scriptures below are from the WEB Bible.

Hosea 1:1-11
1) The word of Yahweh that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
2) When Yahweh spoke at the first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, Go, take to you a wife of prostitution and children of prostitution; for the land does commit great prostitution, [departing] from Yahweh.
3) So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.
4) Yahweh said to him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.
5) It shall happen at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.
6) She conceived again, and bore a daughter. [Yahweh] said to him, Call her name Look-ruhamah; for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any wise pardon them.
7) But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
8) Now when she had weaned Look-ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.
9) [Yahweh] said, Call his name Look-ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be your [God].
10) Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which can‘t be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, it shall be said to them, [You are] the sons of the living God.
11) The children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint themselves one head, and shall go up from the land; for great shall be the day of Jezreel.


Hosea 3:1-5
1) Yahweh said to me, Go again, love a woman beloved of [her] friend, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.
2) So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;
3) and I said to her, You shall abide for me many days; you shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be any man‘s wife: so will I also be toward you.
4) For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without pillar, and without ephod or teraphim:
5) afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with fear to Yahweh and to his goodness in the latter days.


Hosea 6:1-11
1) Come, and let us return to Yahweh; for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck, and he will bind us up.
2) After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before him.
3) Let us know, let us follow on to know Yahweh: his going forth is sure as the morning; and he will come to us as the rain, as the latter rain that waters the earth.
4) Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goes early away.
5) Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and your judgments are [as] the light that goes forth.
6) For I desire goodness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7) But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
8) Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood.
9) As troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem; yes, they have committed lewdness.
10) In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there prostitution is [found] in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
11) Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, when I bring back the captivity of my people.


Jonah 3:1-10
1) The word of Yahweh came to Jonah the second time, saying,
2) "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you."
3) So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days‘ journey across.
4) Jonah began to enter into the city a day‘s journey, and he cried out, and said, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"
5) The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6) The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7) He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, "Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;
8) but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.
9) Who knows whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?"
10) God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God repented of the evil which he said he would do to them, and he didn‘t do it.


Micah 6:1-16
1) Hear you now what Yahweh says: Arise, contend you before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.
2) Hear, you mountains, Yahweh‘s controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.
3) My people, what have I done to you? and in which have I wearied you? testify against me.
4) For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage; and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
5) My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him; [remember] from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.
6) How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
7) Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8) He has showed you, man, what is good; and what does Yahweh require of you, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
9) The voice of Yahweh cries to the city, and [the man of] wisdom will see your name: hear you the rod, and who has appointed it.
10) Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure that is abominable?
11) Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
12) For the rich men of it are full of violence, and the inhabitants of it have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
13) Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound; I have made you desolate because of your sins.
14) You shall eat, but not be satisfied; and your humiliation shall be in the midst of you: and you shall put away, but shall not save; and that which you save will I give up to the sword.
15) You shall sow, but shall not reap; you shall tread the olives, but shall not anoint you with oil; and the vintage, but shall not drink the wine.
16) For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels; that I may make you a desolation, and the inhabitants of it a hissing: and you shall bear the reproach of my people.


Nahum 3:1-19
1) Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn‘t depart.
2) The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,
3) the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,
4) because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.
5) "Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Hosts, "and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.
6) I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.
7) It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste Who will mourn for her?‘ Where will I seek comforters for you?"
8) Are you better than No-amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?
9) Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.
10) Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
11) You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
12) All your fortresses will be like fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
13) Behold, your people in the midst of you are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.
14) Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
15) There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.
16) You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.
17) Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
18) Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.
19) There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn‘t felt your endless cruelty?

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