AM Devotion/Prayer
Exercise: Cardio
Hosea 10:1-14:9; Jude 1-25; Psalm 127:1-5; Proverbs 29:15-17
Hosea 10-14New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Retribution for Israel’s Sin
10 Israel is a [a]luxuriant vine;
He produces fruit for himself.
The more his fruit,
The more altars he made;
The [b]richer his land,
The better [c]he made the sacred pillars.
2 Their heart is [d]faithless;
Now they must bear their guilt.
[e]The Lord will break down their altars
And destroy their sacred pillars.
3 Surely now they will say, “We have no king,
For we do not revere the Lord.
As for the king, what can he do for us?”
4 They speak mere words,
[f]With worthless oaths they make covenants;
And judgment sprouts like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
5 The inhabitants of Samaria will fear
For the [g]calf of Beth-aven.
Indeed, its people will mourn for it,
And its idolatrous priests [h]will cry out over it,
Over its glory, since it has departed from it.
6 The thing itself will be carried to Assyria
As tribute to [i]King Jareb;
Ephraim will [j]be seized with shame
And Israel will be ashamed of its own counsel.
7 Samaria will be cut off with her king
Like a stick on the surface of the water.
8 Also the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed;
Thorn and thistle will grow on their altars;
Then they will say to the mountains,
“Cover us!” And to the hills, “Fall on us!”
9 From the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel;
There they stand!
Will not the battle against the sons of iniquity overtake them in Gibeah?
10 When it is My desire, I will [k]chastise them;
And the peoples will be gathered against them
When they are bound for their double guilt.
11 Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh,
But I will come over her fair neck with a yoke;
I will harness Ephraim,
Judah will plow, Jacob will harrow for himself.
12 Sow with a view to righteousness,
Reap in accordance with [l]kindness;
Break up your fallow ground,
For it is time to seek the Lord
Until He comes to [m]rain righteousness on you.
13 You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped injustice,
You have eaten the fruit of lies.
Because you have trusted in your way, in your numerous warriors,
14 Therefore a tumult will arise among your people,
And all your fortresses will be destroyed,
As Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle,
When mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.
15 Thus it will be done to you at Bethel because of your great wickedness.
At dawn the king of Israel will be completely cut off.
God Yearns over His People
11 When Israel was a youth I loved him,
And out of Egypt I called My son.
2 The more [n]they called them,
The more they went from [o]them;
They kept sacrificing to the Baals
And burning incense to idols.
3 Yet it is I who taught Ephraim to walk,
[p]I took them in My arms;
But they did not know that I healed them.
4 I led them with cords of a man, with bonds of love,
And I became to them as one who lifts the yoke from their jaws;
And I bent down and fed them.
5 [q]They will not return to the land of Egypt;
But Assyria—he will be [r]their king
Because they refused to return to Me.
6 The sword will whirl against [s]their cities,
And will demolish [t]their gate bars
And consume them because of their counsels.
7 So My people are bent on turning from Me.
Though [u]they call [v]them to the One on high,
None at all exalts Him.
8 How can I give you up, O Ephraim?
How can I surrender you, O Israel?
How can I [w]make you like Admah?
How can I treat you like Zeboiim?
My heart is turned over within Me,
[x]All My compassions are kindled.
9 I will not execute My fierce anger;
I will not destroy Ephraim again.
For I am God and not man, the Holy One in your midst,
And I will not come in [y]wrath.
10 They will walk after the Lord,
He will roar like a lion;
Indeed He will roar
And His sons will come trembling from the west.
11 They will come trembling like birds from Egypt
And like doves from the land of Assyria;
And I will settle them in their houses, declares the Lord.
12 [z]Ephraim surrounds Me with lies
And the house of Israel with deceit;
Judah is also unruly against God,
Even against the Holy One who is faithful.
Ephraim Reminded
12 [aa]Ephraim feeds on wind,
And pursues the east wind continually;
He multiplies lies and violence.
Moreover, [ab]he makes a covenant with Assyria,
And oil is carried to Egypt.
2 The Lord also has a dispute with Judah,
And will punish Jacob according to his ways;
He will repay him according to his deeds.
3 In the womb he took his brother by the heel,
And in his maturity he contended with God.
4 Yes, he wrestled with the angel and prevailed;
He wept and sought His favor.
He found Him at Bethel
And there He spoke with us,
5 Even the Lord, the God of hosts,
The Lord is His [ac]name.
6 Therefore, return to your God,
Observe [ad]kindness and justice,
And wait for your God continually.
7 A [ae]merchant, in whose hands are false balances,
He loves to oppress.
8 And Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich,
I have found wealth for myself;
In all my labors they will find in me
No iniquity, which would be sin.”
9 But I have been the Lord your God since the land of Egypt;
I will make you live in tents again,
As in the days of the appointed festival.
10 I have also spoken to the prophets,
And I [af]gave numerous visions,
And through the prophets I gave parables.
11 Is there iniquity in Gilead?
Surely they are worthless.
In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls,
Yes, their altars are like the stone heaps
Beside the furrows of the field.
12 Now Jacob fled to the [ag]land of Aram,
And Israel worked for a wife,
And for a wife he kept sheep.
13 But by a prophet the Lord brought Israel from Egypt,
And by a prophet he was kept.
14 Ephraim has provoked to bitter anger;
So his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him
And bring back his reproach to him.
Ephraim’s Idolatry
13 When Ephraim [ah]spoke, there was trembling.
He exalted himself in Israel,
But through Baal he [ai]did wrong and died.
2 And now they sin more and more,
And make for themselves molten images,
Idols [aj]skillfully made from their silver,
All of them the work of craftsmen.
They say of them, “Let the [ak]men who sacrifice kiss the calves!”
3 Therefore they will be like the morning cloud
And like dew which [al]soon disappears,
Like chaff which is blown away from the threshing floor
And like smoke from a [am]chimney.
4 Yet I have been the Lord your God
Since the land of Egypt;
And you were not to know any god except Me,
For there is no savior besides Me.
5 I [an]cared for you in the wilderness,
In the land of drought.
6 As they had their pasture, they became satisfied,
And being satisfied, their heart became proud;
Therefore they forgot Me.
7 So I will be like a lion to them;
Like a leopard I will [ao]lie in wait by the wayside.
8 I will encounter them like a bear robbed of her cubs,
And I will tear open [ap]their chests;
There I will also devour them like a lioness,
As a wild beast would tear them.
9 It is your destruction, O Israel,
[aq]That you are against Me, against your help.
10 Where now is your king
That he may save you in all your cities,
And your judges of whom you [ar]requested,
“Give me a king and princes”?
11 I gave you a king in My anger
And took him away in My wrath.
12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up;
His sin is stored up.
13 The pains of childbirth come upon him;
He is not a wise son,
For [as]it is not the time that he should delay at the opening of the womb.
14 Shall I ransom them from the [at]power of Sheol?
Shall I redeem them from death?
O Death, where are your thorns?
O Sheol, where is your sting?
Compassion will be hidden from My sight.
15 Though he flourishes among the [au]reeds,
An east wind will come,
The wind of the Lord coming up from the wilderness;
And his fountain will become dry
And his spring will be dried up;
It will plunder his treasury of every precious article.
16 [av]Samaria will be held guilty,
For she has rebelled against her God.
They will fall by the sword,
Their little ones will be dashed in pieces,
And their pregnant women will be ripped open.
Israel’s Future Blessing
14 [aw]Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
For you have stumbled [ax]because of your iniquity.
2 Take words with you and return to the Lord.
Say to Him, “Take away all iniquity
And [ay]receive us graciously,
That we may present [az]the fruit of our lips.
3 “Assyria will not save us,
We will not ride on horses;
Nor will we say again, ‘Our god,’
To the work of our hands;
For in You the [ba]orphan finds mercy.”
4 I will heal their apostasy,
I will love them freely,
For My anger has turned away from them.
5 I will be like the dew to Israel;
He will blossom like the lily,
And he will [bb]take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
6 His shoots will [bc]sprout,
And his [bd]beauty will be like the olive tree
And his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.
7 Those who live in his shadow
Will [be]again raise grain,
And they will blossom like the vine.
His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.
8 O Ephraim, what more have I to do with idols?
It is I who answer and look after [bf]you.
I am like a luxuriant cypress;
From Me comes your fruit.
9 Whoever is wise, let him understand these things;
Whoever is discerning, let him know them.
For the ways of the Lord are right,
And the righteous will walk in them,
But transgressors will stumble in them.
Footnotes:
Hosea 10:1 Or degenerate
Hosea 10:1 Or better
Hosea 10:1 Lit they
Hosea 10:2 Lit smooth
Hosea 10:2 Lit He
Hosea 10:4 Or Swearing falsely in making a covenant
Hosea 10:5 So with some ancient versions; Heb calves
Hosea 10:5 Or who used to rejoice over
Hosea 10:6 Or the avenging king or the great king
Hosea 10:6 Lit receive shame
Hosea 10:10 Or bind
Hosea 10:12 Or loyalty
Hosea 10:12 Or teach
Hosea 11:2 I.e. God’s prophets
Hosea 11:2 I.e. God’s prophets
Hosea 11:3 So ancient versions; Heb He...His
Hosea 11:5 Lit He
Hosea 11:5 Lit his
Hosea 11:6 Lit his
Hosea 11:6 Lit his
Hosea 11:7 I.e. God’s prophets
Hosea 11:7 Lit him; i.e. Israel
Hosea 11:8 Lit give
Hosea 11:8 Lit Together
Hosea 11:9 Lit excitement
Hosea 11:12 Ch 12:1 in Heb
Hosea 12:1 Ch 12:2 in Heb
Hosea 12:1 Lit they make
Hosea 12:5 Lit memorial
Hosea 12:6 Or loyalty
Hosea 12:7 Or Canaanite
Hosea 12:10 Lit multiplied the vision
Hosea 12:12 Lit field
Hosea 13:1 Or spoke with trembling
Hosea 13:1 Or became guilty
Hosea 13:2 Or according to their own understanding
Hosea 13:2 Lit sacrificers of or, (among) mankind
Hosea 13:3 Lit goes away early
Hosea 13:3 Lit window
Hosea 13:5 Or knew
Hosea 13:7 Or watch
Hosea 13:8 Lit the enclosure of their heart
Hosea 13:9 Or But in Me is your help
Hosea 13:10 Lit said
Hosea 13:13 Lit it is the time that he should not tarry at the breaking forth of children
Hosea 13:14 Lit hand
Hosea 13:15 Or brothers
Hosea 13:16 Ch 14:1 in Heb
Hosea 14:1 Ch 14:2 in Heb
Hosea 14:1 Or in
Hosea 14:2 Or accept that which is good
Hosea 14:2 So with ancient versions; M.T. our lips as bulls
Hosea 14:3 Or fatherless
Hosea 14:5 Lit strike his roots
Hosea 14:6 Lit go
Hosea 14:6 Or splendor
Hosea 14:7 Or return, they will raise grain
Hosea 14:8 Lit him
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Jude
JudeNew American Standard Bible (NASB)
The Warnings of History to the Ungodly
1 [a]Jude, a bond-servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of [b]James,
To those who are the called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: 2 May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.
3 Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the [c]saints. 4 For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand [d]marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
5 Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that [e]the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, [f]subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day, 7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after [g]strange flesh, are exhibited as an [h]example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
8 Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming, defile the flesh, and reject authority, and revile [i]angelic majesties. 9 But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” 10 But these men revile the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are [j]destroyed. 11 Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay [k]they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. 12 These are the men who are [l]hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, [m]doubly dead, uprooted; 13 wild waves of the sea, casting up their own [n]shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the [o]black darkness has been reserved forever.
14 It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with [p]many thousands of His holy ones, 15 to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.” 16 These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; [q]they speak arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of gaining an advantage.
Keep Yourselves in the Love of God
17 But you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, 18 that they were saying to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts.” 19 These are the ones who cause divisions, [r]worldly-minded, [s]devoid of the Spirit. 20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. 22 And have mercy on some, who are doubting; 23 save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh.
24 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, 25 to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and [t]forever. Amen.
Footnotes:
Jude 1:1 Gr Judas
Jude 1:1 Or Jacob
Jude 1:3 Or holy ones
Jude 1:4 Or written about...long ago
Jude 1:5 Two early mss read Jesus
Jude 1:5 Lit the second time
Jude 1:7 Lit different or other flesh
Jude 1:7 Or example of eternal fire, in undergoing punishment
Jude 1:8 Lit glories
Jude 1:10 Lit corrupted
Jude 1:11 Lit they have poured themselves out
Jude 1:12 Or stains
Jude 1:12 Lit twice
Jude 1:13 Or shameless deeds
Jude 1:13 Lit blackness of darkness; or netherworld gloom
Jude 1:14 Lit His holy ten thousands
Jude 1:16 Lit their mouth speaks
Jude 1:19 Or merely natural
Jude 1:19 Lit not having
Jude 1:25 Lit to all the ages
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Psalm 127
Psalm 127New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Prosperity Comes from the Lord.
A Song of Ascents, of Solomon.
127 Unless the Lord builds the house,
They labor in vain who build it;
Unless the Lord guards the city,
The watchman keeps awake in vain.
2 It is vain for you to rise up early,
To [a]retire late,
To eat the bread of [b]painful labors;
For He gives to His beloved even in his sleep.
3 Behold, children are a [c]gift of the Lord,
The fruit of the womb is a reward.
4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,
So are the children of one’s youth.
5 How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them;
They will not be ashamed
When they speak with their enemies in the gate.
Footnotes:
Psalm 127:2 Lit delay sitting
Psalm 127:2 Lit toils
Psalm 127:3 Or heritage
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Proverbs 29:15-17
Proverbs 29:15-17New American Standard Bible (NASB)
15 The rod and reproof give wisdom,
But a child [a]who gets his own way brings shame to his mother.
16 When the wicked [b]increase, transgression increases;
But the righteous will see their fall.
17 Correct your son, and he will give you comfort;
He will also [c]delight your soul.
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