Hosea 1:1-3:5 1 This is the word of the
Lord which was revealed to Hosea
son of Beeri during the time when
Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah ruled Judah,
and during the time when Jeroboam son of Joash
ruled Israel.
2 When the
Lord first spoke
through
Hosea, he
said to him,
“Go marry
a prostitute
who will bear illegitimate children conceived through prostitution,
because the nation
continually commits spiritual prostitution
by turning away from
the
Lord.”
3 So Hosea married
Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim. Then she conceived and gave birth to a son for him.
4 Then the
Lord said to Hosea,
“Name him ‘Jezreel,’ because in a little while I will punish
the dynasty
of Jehu on account of the bloodshed
in the valley of Jezreel,
and I will put an end to the kingdom
of Israel.
5 At that time,
I will destroy the military power
of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.”
6 She conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. Then the
Lord said to him, “Name her ‘No Pity’ (Lo-Ruhamah) because I will no longer have pity
on the nation
of Israel. For
I will certainly not forgive
their guilt.
7 But I will have pity on the nation
of Judah.
I will deliver them by the
Lord their God; I will not deliver them by the warrior’s bow, by sword, by military victory,
by chariot horses, or by chariots.”
8 When
she had weaned ‘No Pity’ (Lo-Ruhamah) she conceived again and gave birth to another son.
9 Then the
Lord said: “Name him ‘Not My People’ (Lo-Ammi), because you
are not my people and I am not your
God.”
10 However,
in the future the number of the people
of Israel will be like the sand of the sea which can be neither measured nor numbered. Although
it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it will be said to them, “You are
children
of the living God!”
11 Then the people
of Judah and the people of Israel will be gathered together. They will appoint for themselves one leader,
and will flourish in the land.
Certainly,
the day of Jezreel will be great!
1 Then you will call
your
brother, “My People” (Ammi)! You will call your sister, “Pity” (Ruhamah)!
2 Plead earnestly
with your
mother (for
she is not my wife, and I am not her husband), so that
she might put an end to her adulterous lifestyle,
and turn away from her sexually immoral behavior.
3 Otherwise, I will strip her naked, and expose her like she was when she was born. I will turn her land into a wilderness and make her country a parched land, so that I might kill
her with thirst.
4 I will have no pity on her children,
because they are children conceived in adultery.
5 For their mother has committed adultery; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, “I will seek out
my lovers;
they are the ones who give me my bread and my water, my wool, my flax, my olive oil, and my wine.
6 Therefore, I will soon
fence her in
with thorns; I will wall her in
so that
she cannot find her way.
7 Then she will pursue her lovers, but she will not catch
them; she will seek them, but she will not find them.
Then she will say, “I will go back
to my husband,
because I was better off then than I am now.”
8 Yet
until now
she has refused to acknowledge
that I
was the one who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil; and that it was I who
lavished on her the silver and gold – which they
used in worshiping Baal!
9 Therefore, I will take back
my grain during the harvest time
and my new wine when it ripens;
I will take away my wool and my flax which I had provided
in order to clothe her.
10 Soon
I will expose her lewd nakedness
in front of her lovers, and no one will be able to rescue her from me!
11 I will put an end to all her celebration: her annual religious festivals, monthly new moon celebrations, and weekly Sabbath festivities – all her appointed festivals.
12 I will destroy her vines and fig trees, about which she said, “These are my wages for prostitution
that my lovers gave to me!” I will turn her cultivated vines and fig trees
into an uncultivated thicket, so that wild animals
will devour them.
13 “I will punish her for the festival days when she burned incense to the Baal idols;
she adorned herself with earrings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but
she forgot me!”
says the
Lord.
14 However, in the future I will allure her;
I will lead
her back into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
15 From there I will give back her vineyards to her, and turn the “Valley of Trouble”
into an “Opportunity
for Hope.” There she will sing as she did when she was young,
when
she came up from the land of Egypt.
16 “At that time,”
declares the
Lord, “you will call,
‘My husband’;
you will never again call me,
‘My master.’
17 For
I will remove the names of the Baal idols
from your lips,
so that you will never again utter their names!”
18 “At that time
I will make a covenant for them with the wild animals, the birds of the air, and the creatures that crawl on the ground. I will abolish
the warrior’s bow and sword – that is, every weapon of warfare
– from the land, and I will allow them to live securely.”
19 I will commit myself to you
forever; I will commit myself to you in
righteousness and justice, in steadfast love and tender compassion.
20 I will commit myself to you in faithfulness; then
you will acknowledge
the
Lord.”
21 “At that time,
I will willingly respond,”
declares the
Lord. “I will respond to the sky, and the sky
will respond to the ground;
22 then the ground will respond to the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil; and they will respond to ‘God Plants’ (Jezreel)!
23 Then I will plant her as my own
in the land. I will have pity on ‘No Pity’ (Lo-Ruhamah). I will say to ‘Not My People’ (Lo-Ammi), ‘You are my people!’ And he
will say, ‘You are
my God!’”
1 The
Lord said to me, “Go, show love to
your wife
again, even though she loves
another man
and continually commits adultery.
Likewise, the
Lord loves
the Israelites
although they turn to other gods and love to offer raisin cakes to idols.”
2 So I paid fifteen shekels of silver and about seven bushels of barley
to purchase her.
3 Then I told her, “You must live with me many days; you must not commit adultery or have sexual intercourse with
another man, and I also will wait for you.”
4 For the Israelites
must live many days without a king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred fertility pillar, without ephod or idols.
5 Afterward, the Israelites will turn and seek the
Lord their God and their Davidic king.
Then they will submit to the
Lord in fear and receive his blessings
in the future.
Context (NET) 1 John 5:1-21 1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ
has been fathered
by God, and everyone who loves the father
loves the child fathered by him.
2 By this
we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.
3 For
this is the love of God:
that we keep his commandments.
And his commandments do not weigh us down,
4 because
everyone
who has been fathered by God
conquers
the world.
This
is the conquering power
that has conquered
the world: our faith.
5 Now who is the person who has conquered the world except the one who believes that
Jesus is the Son of God?
6 Jesus Christ is the one who came by water and blood – not by the water only, but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because
the Spirit is the truth.
7 For
there are three that testify,
8 the Spirit and the water and the blood, and these three are in agreement.
9 If we accept the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, because
this
is the testimony of God that
he has testified concerning his Son.
10 (The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.)
11 And this is the testimony: God
has given us eternal life,
and this life is in his Son.
12 The one who has the Son
has this
eternal
life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this
eternal
life.
13 I have written these things
to you who believe
in the name of the Son of God so that
you may know that you have eternal life.
14 And this is the confidence that we have before him: that
whenever
we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
15 And if we know
that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, then we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.
16 If
anyone sees his fellow Christian
committing a sin not resulting in death,
he should ask, and God
will grant
life to the person who commits a sin not resulting in death.
There is a sin resulting in death.
I do not say that he should ask about that.
17 All unrighteousness
is sin, but there is sin not resulting in death.
18 We know that everyone fathered
by God does not sin, but God
protects
the one he has fathered, and the evil one cannot touch him.
19 We know that we are from God,
and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know
him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one
is the true God and eternal life.
21 Little children, guard yourselves from idols.
Context (NET) Psalm 124:1-8 1 A song of ascents,
by David. “If the
Lord had not been on our side” – let Israel say this! –
2 if the
Lord had not been on our side, when men attacked us,
3 they would have swallowed us alive, when their anger raged against us.
4 The water would have overpowered us; the current
would have overwhelmed
us.
5 The raging water would have overwhelmed us.
6 The
Lord deserves praise,
for
he did not hand us over as prey to their teeth.
7 We escaped with our lives,
like a bird from a hunter’s snare. The snare broke, and we escaped.
8 Our deliverer is the
Lord,
the Creator
of heaven and earth.
Context (NET) Proverbs 29:5-8 5 The one
who flatters
his neighbor spreads a net
for his steps.
6 In the transgression of an evil person there is a snare,
but a righteous person can sing
and rejoice.
7 The righteous person cares for
the legal rights
of the poor; the wicked does not understand such
knowledge.
8 Scornful people
inflame
a city,
but those who are wise turn away wrath.
Context (NET)
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