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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Hosea 6:1-9:17; 3 John 1-15; Psalm 126:1-6; Proverbs 29:12-14
Hosea 6-9New American Standard Bible (NASB)
The Response to God’s Rebuke
6 “Come, let us return to the Lord.
For He has torn us, but He will heal us;
He has [a]wounded us, but He will bandage us.
2 “He will revive us after two days;
He will raise us up on the third day,
That we may live before Him.
3 “So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord.
His going forth is as certain as the dawn;
And He will come to us like the rain,
Like the spring rain watering the earth.”
4 What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?
What shall I do with you, O Judah?
For your [b]loyalty is like a morning cloud
And like the dew which goes away early.
5 Therefore I have hewn them in pieces by the prophets;
I have slain them by the words of My mouth;
And the judgments on you are like the light that goes forth.
6 For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice,
And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
7 But like [c]Adam they have transgressed the covenant;
There they have dealt treacherously against Me.
8 Gilead is a city of wrongdoers,
Tracked with bloody footprints.
9 And as raiders wait for a man,
So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem;
Surely they have committed [d]crime.
10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
Ephraim’s harlotry is there, Israel has defiled itself.
11 Also, O Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you,
When I restore the fortunes of My people.
Ephraim’s Iniquity
7 When I would heal Israel,
The iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered,
And the evil deeds of Samaria,
For they deal falsely;
The thief enters in,
Bandits raid outside,
2 And they do not [e]consider in their hearts
That I remember all their wickedness.
Now their deeds are all around them;
They are before My face.
3 With their wickedness they make the king glad,
And the princes with their lies.
4 They are all adulterers,
Like an oven heated by the baker
Who ceases to stir up the fire
From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
5 On the [f]day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine;
He stretched out his hand with scoffers,
6 For their hearts are like an oven
As they approach their [g]plotting;
Their [h]anger [i]smolders all night,
In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.
7 All of them are hot like an oven,
And they consume their rulers;
All their kings have fallen.
None of them calls on Me.
8 Ephraim mixes himself with the [j]nations;
Ephraim has become a cake not turned.
9 Strangers devour his strength,
Yet he does not know it;
Gray hairs also are sprinkled on him,
Yet he does not know it.
10 Though the pride of Israel testifies against him,
Yet they have not returned to the Lord their God,
Nor have they sought Him, for all this.
11 So Ephraim has become like a silly dove, without [k]sense;
They call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
12 When they go, I will spread My net over them;
I will bring them down like the birds of the sky.
I will chastise them in accordance with the [l]proclamation to their assembly.
13 Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me!
Destruction is theirs, for they have rebelled against Me!
I would redeem them, but they speak lies against Me.
14 And they do not cry to Me from their heart
When they wail on their beds;
For the sake of grain and new wine they [m]assemble themselves,
They turn away from Me.
15 Although I trained and strengthened their arms,
Yet they devise evil against Me.
16 They turn, but not [n]upward,
They are like a deceitful bow;
Their princes will fall by the sword
Because of the [o]insolence of their tongue.
This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.
Israel Reaps the Whirlwind
8 Put the trumpet to your [p]lips!
Like an eagle the enemy comes against the house of the Lord,
Because they have transgressed My covenant
And rebelled against My law.
2 They cry out to Me,
“My God, we of Israel know You!”
3 Israel has rejected the good;
The enemy will pursue him.
4 They have set up kings, but not by Me;
They have appointed princes, but I did not know it.
With their silver and gold they have made idols for themselves,
That [q]they might be cut off.
5 [r]He has rejected your calf, O Samaria, saying,
“My anger burns against them!”
How long will they be incapable of innocence?
6 For from Israel is even this!
A craftsman made it, so it is not God;
Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to [s]pieces.
7 For they sow the wind
And they reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no [t]heads;
It yields no [u]grain.
Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.
8 Israel is swallowed up;
They are now among the nations
Like a vessel in which no one delights.
9 For they have gone up to Assyria,
Like a wild donkey all alone;
Ephraim has hired [v]lovers.
10 Even though they hire allies among the nations,
Now I will gather them up;
And they will begin to [w]diminish
Because of the burden of the king of princes.
11 Since Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin,
They have become altars of sinning for him.
12 Though I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My law,
They are regarded as a strange thing.
13 As for My sacrificial gifts,
They sacrifice the flesh and eat it,
But the Lord has taken no delight in them.
Now He will remember their iniquity,
And punish them for their sins;
They will return to Egypt.
14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces;
And Judah has multiplied fortified cities,
But I will send a fire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.
Ephraim Punished
9 Do not rejoice, O Israel, [x]with exultation like the [y]nations!
For you have played the harlot, [z]forsaking your God.
You have loved harlots’ earnings on [aa]every threshing floor.
2 Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them,
And the new wine will fail [ab]them.
3 They will not remain in the Lord’s land,
But Ephraim will return to Egypt,
And in Assyria they will eat unclean food.
4 They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the Lord,
Their sacrifices will not please Him.
Their bread will [ac]be like [ad]mourners’ bread;
All who eat of it will be defiled,
For their bread will be for [ae]themselves alone;
It will not enter the house of the Lord.
5 What will you do on the day of the appointed festival
And on the day of the feast of the Lord?
6 For behold, they will go because of destruction;
Egypt will gather them up, Memphis will bury them.
Weeds will take over their treasures of silver;
Thorns will be in their tents.
7 The days of punishment have come,
The days of retribution have come;
[af]Let Israel know this!
The prophet is a fool,
The [ag]inspired man is demented,
Because of the grossness of your iniquity,
And because your hostility is so great.
8 Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet;
Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways,
And there is only hostility in the house of his God.
9 They have gone deep [ah]in depravity
As in the days of Gibeah;
He will remember their iniquity,
He will punish their sins.
10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness;
I saw your forefathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season.
But they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to [ai]shame,
And they became as detestable as that which they loved.
11 As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird—
No birth, no pregnancy and no conception!
12 Though they bring up their children,
Yet I will bereave them [aj]until not a man is left.
Yes, woe to them indeed when I depart from them!
13 Ephraim, as I have seen,
Is planted in a pleasant meadow like Tyre;
But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.
14 Give them, O Lord—what will You give?
Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
15 All their evil is at Gilgal;
Indeed, I came to hate them there!
Because of the wickedness of their deeds
I will drive them out of My house!
I will love them no more;
All their princes are rebels.
16 Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up,
They will bear no fruit.
Even though they bear children,
I will slay the precious ones of their womb.
17 My God will cast them away
Because they have not listened to Him;
And they will be wanderers among the nations.
Footnotes:
Hosea 6:1 Lit struck
Hosea 6:4 Or lovingkindness
Hosea 6:7 Or men
Hosea 6:9 Or lewdness
Hosea 7:2 Lit say to their heart
Hosea 7:5 I.e. a festive occasion
Hosea 7:6 Lit ambush
Hosea 7:6 So with some ancient versions; M.T. baker
Hosea 7:6 Lit sleeps
Hosea 7:8 Lit peoples
Hosea 7:11 Lit heart
Hosea 7:12 Lit report
Hosea 7:14 Or with Gr and many ancient mss gash themselves
Hosea 7:16 Or possibly to the Most High
Hosea 7:16 Lit indignation; or cursing
Hosea 8:1 Lit palate
Hosea 8:4 Lit he
Hosea 8:5 Or Your calf has rejected you
Hosea 8:6 Or splinters
Hosea 8:7 Lit growth
Hosea 8:7 Or meal
Hosea 8:9 Lit loves
Hosea 8:10 Or suffer for awhile
Hosea 9:1 Lit to
Hosea 9:1 Lit peoples
Hosea 9:1 Lit away from your God
Hosea 9:1 Lit all threshing floors of grain
Hosea 9:2 Lit her
Hosea 9:4 Lit be to them
Hosea 9:4 Or bread of misfortune
Hosea 9:4 Lit their appetite
Hosea 9:7 Or Israel will know it
Hosea 9:7 Lit man of the spirit
Hosea 9:9 Lit they have corrupted
Hosea 9:10 I.e. Baal
Hosea 9:12 Lit without a man
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3 John
3 JohnNew American Standard Bible (NASB)
You Walk in the Truth
1 The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.
2 Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers. 3 For I was very glad when brethren came and testified to your truth, that is, how you are walking in truth. 4 I have no greater joy than [a]this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.
5 Beloved, you are acting faithfully in whatever you accomplish for the brethren, and [b]especially when they are strangers; 6 and they have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God. 7 For they went out for the sake of the Name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles. 8 Therefore we ought to [c]support such men, so that we may [d]be fellow workers [e]with the truth.
9 I wrote something to the church; but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not accept [f]what we say. 10 For this reason, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words; and not satisfied with this, he himself does not receive the brethren, either, and he forbids those who desire to do so and puts them out of the church.
11 Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God. 12 Demetrius has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself; and we add our testimony, and you know that our testimony is true.
13 I had many things to write to you, but I am not willing to write them to you with pen and ink; 14 but I hope to see you shortly, and we will speak face to face.
15 Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends by name.
Footnotes:
3 John 1:4 Lit these things, that I hear
3 John 1:5 Lit this
3 John 1:8 Or receive such men as guests
3 John 1:8 Or prove ourselves to be
3 John 1:8 Or for
3 John 1:9 Lit us
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Psalm 126
Psalm 126New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Thanksgiving for Return from Captivity.
A Song of Ascents.
126 When the Lord brought back [a]the captive ones of Zion,
We were like those who dream.
2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter
And our tongue with joyful shouting;
Then they said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”
3 The Lord has done great things for us;
We are glad.
4 Restore our captivity, O Lord,
As the [b]streams in the [c]South.
5 Those who sow in tears shall reap with joyful shouting.
6 He who goes to and fro weeping, carrying his bag of seed,
Shall indeed come again with a shout of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.
Footnotes:
Psalm 126:1 Or those who returned to
Psalm 126:4 Lit stream-beds
Psalm 126:4 Heb Negev
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Proverbs 29:12-14
Proverbs 29:12-14New American Standard Bible (NASB)
12 If a ruler pays attention to falsehood,
All his ministers become wicked.
13 The poor man and the oppressor [a]have this in common:
The Lord gives light to the eyes of both.
14 If a king judges the poor with truth,
His throne will be established forever.
Footnotes:
Hosea 6:1-9:17; 3 John 1-15; Psalm 126:1-6; Proverbs 29:12-14
Hosea 6-9New American Standard Bible (NASB)
The Response to God’s Rebuke
6 “Come, let us return to the Lord.
For He has torn us, but He will heal us;
He has [a]wounded us, but He will bandage us.
2 “He will revive us after two days;
He will raise us up on the third day,
That we may live before Him.
3 “So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord.
His going forth is as certain as the dawn;
And He will come to us like the rain,
Like the spring rain watering the earth.”
4 What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?
What shall I do with you, O Judah?
For your [b]loyalty is like a morning cloud
And like the dew which goes away early.
5 Therefore I have hewn them in pieces by the prophets;
I have slain them by the words of My mouth;
And the judgments on you are like the light that goes forth.
6 For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice,
And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
7 But like [c]Adam they have transgressed the covenant;
There they have dealt treacherously against Me.
8 Gilead is a city of wrongdoers,
Tracked with bloody footprints.
9 And as raiders wait for a man,
So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem;
Surely they have committed [d]crime.
10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
Ephraim’s harlotry is there, Israel has defiled itself.
11 Also, O Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you,
When I restore the fortunes of My people.
Ephraim’s Iniquity
7 When I would heal Israel,
The iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered,
And the evil deeds of Samaria,
For they deal falsely;
The thief enters in,
Bandits raid outside,
2 And they do not [e]consider in their hearts
That I remember all their wickedness.
Now their deeds are all around them;
They are before My face.
3 With their wickedness they make the king glad,
And the princes with their lies.
4 They are all adulterers,
Like an oven heated by the baker
Who ceases to stir up the fire
From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
5 On the [f]day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine;
He stretched out his hand with scoffers,
6 For their hearts are like an oven
As they approach their [g]plotting;
Their [h]anger [i]smolders all night,
In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.
7 All of them are hot like an oven,
And they consume their rulers;
All their kings have fallen.
None of them calls on Me.
8 Ephraim mixes himself with the [j]nations;
Ephraim has become a cake not turned.
9 Strangers devour his strength,
Yet he does not know it;
Gray hairs also are sprinkled on him,
Yet he does not know it.
10 Though the pride of Israel testifies against him,
Yet they have not returned to the Lord their God,
Nor have they sought Him, for all this.
11 So Ephraim has become like a silly dove, without [k]sense;
They call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
12 When they go, I will spread My net over them;
I will bring them down like the birds of the sky.
I will chastise them in accordance with the [l]proclamation to their assembly.
13 Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me!
Destruction is theirs, for they have rebelled against Me!
I would redeem them, but they speak lies against Me.
14 And they do not cry to Me from their heart
When they wail on their beds;
For the sake of grain and new wine they [m]assemble themselves,
They turn away from Me.
15 Although I trained and strengthened their arms,
Yet they devise evil against Me.
16 They turn, but not [n]upward,
They are like a deceitful bow;
Their princes will fall by the sword
Because of the [o]insolence of their tongue.
This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.
Israel Reaps the Whirlwind
8 Put the trumpet to your [p]lips!
Like an eagle the enemy comes against the house of the Lord,
Because they have transgressed My covenant
And rebelled against My law.
2 They cry out to Me,
“My God, we of Israel know You!”
3 Israel has rejected the good;
The enemy will pursue him.
4 They have set up kings, but not by Me;
They have appointed princes, but I did not know it.
With their silver and gold they have made idols for themselves,
That [q]they might be cut off.
5 [r]He has rejected your calf, O Samaria, saying,
“My anger burns against them!”
How long will they be incapable of innocence?
6 For from Israel is even this!
A craftsman made it, so it is not God;
Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to [s]pieces.
7 For they sow the wind
And they reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no [t]heads;
It yields no [u]grain.
Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.
8 Israel is swallowed up;
They are now among the nations
Like a vessel in which no one delights.
9 For they have gone up to Assyria,
Like a wild donkey all alone;
Ephraim has hired [v]lovers.
10 Even though they hire allies among the nations,
Now I will gather them up;
And they will begin to [w]diminish
Because of the burden of the king of princes.
11 Since Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin,
They have become altars of sinning for him.
12 Though I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My law,
They are regarded as a strange thing.
13 As for My sacrificial gifts,
They sacrifice the flesh and eat it,
But the Lord has taken no delight in them.
Now He will remember their iniquity,
And punish them for their sins;
They will return to Egypt.
14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces;
And Judah has multiplied fortified cities,
But I will send a fire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.
Ephraim Punished
9 Do not rejoice, O Israel, [x]with exultation like the [y]nations!
For you have played the harlot, [z]forsaking your God.
You have loved harlots’ earnings on [aa]every threshing floor.
2 Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them,
And the new wine will fail [ab]them.
3 They will not remain in the Lord’s land,
But Ephraim will return to Egypt,
And in Assyria they will eat unclean food.
4 They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the Lord,
Their sacrifices will not please Him.
Their bread will [ac]be like [ad]mourners’ bread;
All who eat of it will be defiled,
For their bread will be for [ae]themselves alone;
It will not enter the house of the Lord.
5 What will you do on the day of the appointed festival
And on the day of the feast of the Lord?
6 For behold, they will go because of destruction;
Egypt will gather them up, Memphis will bury them.
Weeds will take over their treasures of silver;
Thorns will be in their tents.
7 The days of punishment have come,
The days of retribution have come;
[af]Let Israel know this!
The prophet is a fool,
The [ag]inspired man is demented,
Because of the grossness of your iniquity,
And because your hostility is so great.
8 Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet;
Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways,
And there is only hostility in the house of his God.
9 They have gone deep [ah]in depravity
As in the days of Gibeah;
He will remember their iniquity,
He will punish their sins.
10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness;
I saw your forefathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season.
But they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to [ai]shame,
And they became as detestable as that which they loved.
11 As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird—
No birth, no pregnancy and no conception!
12 Though they bring up their children,
Yet I will bereave them [aj]until not a man is left.
Yes, woe to them indeed when I depart from them!
13 Ephraim, as I have seen,
Is planted in a pleasant meadow like Tyre;
But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.
14 Give them, O Lord—what will You give?
Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
15 All their evil is at Gilgal;
Indeed, I came to hate them there!
Because of the wickedness of their deeds
I will drive them out of My house!
I will love them no more;
All their princes are rebels.
16 Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up,
They will bear no fruit.
Even though they bear children,
I will slay the precious ones of their womb.
17 My God will cast them away
Because they have not listened to Him;
And they will be wanderers among the nations.
Footnotes:
Hosea 6:1 Lit struck
Hosea 6:4 Or lovingkindness
Hosea 6:7 Or men
Hosea 6:9 Or lewdness
Hosea 7:2 Lit say to their heart
Hosea 7:5 I.e. a festive occasion
Hosea 7:6 Lit ambush
Hosea 7:6 So with some ancient versions; M.T. baker
Hosea 7:6 Lit sleeps
Hosea 7:8 Lit peoples
Hosea 7:11 Lit heart
Hosea 7:12 Lit report
Hosea 7:14 Or with Gr and many ancient mss gash themselves
Hosea 7:16 Or possibly to the Most High
Hosea 7:16 Lit indignation; or cursing
Hosea 8:1 Lit palate
Hosea 8:4 Lit he
Hosea 8:5 Or Your calf has rejected you
Hosea 8:6 Or splinters
Hosea 8:7 Lit growth
Hosea 8:7 Or meal
Hosea 8:9 Lit loves
Hosea 8:10 Or suffer for awhile
Hosea 9:1 Lit to
Hosea 9:1 Lit peoples
Hosea 9:1 Lit away from your God
Hosea 9:1 Lit all threshing floors of grain
Hosea 9:2 Lit her
Hosea 9:4 Lit be to them
Hosea 9:4 Or bread of misfortune
Hosea 9:4 Lit their appetite
Hosea 9:7 Or Israel will know it
Hosea 9:7 Lit man of the spirit
Hosea 9:9 Lit they have corrupted
Hosea 9:10 I.e. Baal
Hosea 9:12 Lit without a man
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3 John
3 JohnNew American Standard Bible (NASB)
You Walk in the Truth
1 The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.
2 Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers. 3 For I was very glad when brethren came and testified to your truth, that is, how you are walking in truth. 4 I have no greater joy than [a]this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.
5 Beloved, you are acting faithfully in whatever you accomplish for the brethren, and [b]especially when they are strangers; 6 and they have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God. 7 For they went out for the sake of the Name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles. 8 Therefore we ought to [c]support such men, so that we may [d]be fellow workers [e]with the truth.
9 I wrote something to the church; but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not accept [f]what we say. 10 For this reason, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words; and not satisfied with this, he himself does not receive the brethren, either, and he forbids those who desire to do so and puts them out of the church.
11 Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God. 12 Demetrius has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself; and we add our testimony, and you know that our testimony is true.
13 I had many things to write to you, but I am not willing to write them to you with pen and ink; 14 but I hope to see you shortly, and we will speak face to face.
15 Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends by name.
Footnotes:
3 John 1:4 Lit these things, that I hear
3 John 1:5 Lit this
3 John 1:8 Or receive such men as guests
3 John 1:8 Or prove ourselves to be
3 John 1:8 Or for
3 John 1:9 Lit us
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Psalm 126
Psalm 126New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Thanksgiving for Return from Captivity.
A Song of Ascents.
126 When the Lord brought back [a]the captive ones of Zion,
We were like those who dream.
2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter
And our tongue with joyful shouting;
Then they said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”
3 The Lord has done great things for us;
We are glad.
4 Restore our captivity, O Lord,
As the [b]streams in the [c]South.
5 Those who sow in tears shall reap with joyful shouting.
6 He who goes to and fro weeping, carrying his bag of seed,
Shall indeed come again with a shout of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.
Footnotes:
Psalm 126:1 Or those who returned to
Psalm 126:4 Lit stream-beds
Psalm 126:4 Heb Negev
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Proverbs 29:12-14
Proverbs 29:12-14New American Standard Bible (NASB)
12 If a ruler pays attention to falsehood,
All his ministers become wicked.
13 The poor man and the oppressor [a]have this in common:
The Lord gives light to the eyes of both.
14 If a king judges the poor with truth,
His throne will be established forever.
Footnotes:
Saturday, January 30, 2016
Saturday, January 30, 2016 - "Death and Resurrection"
AM Devotion/Prayer
John 11:1-44;
John 11:1-44;
John 11:1-44New American Standard Bible (NASB)
The Death and Resurrection of Lazarus
11 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.2 It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. 3 So the sisters sent word to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.” 4 But when Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness is not to end in death, but forthe glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it.” 5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 So when He heard that he was sick, He then stayed two days longer in the place where He was. 7 Then after this He *said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.” 8 The disciples *said to Him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone You, and are You going there again?” 9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 10 But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.” 11 This He said, and after that He *said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I go, so that I may awaken him out of sleep.”12 The disciples then said to Him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will [a]recover.” 13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that He was speaking of [b]literal sleep. 14 So Jesus then said to them plainly, “Lazarus is dead, 15 and I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe; but let us go to him.” 16 Therefore Thomas, who is called [c]Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.”
17 So when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days. 18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about [d]two miles off; 19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother. 20 Martha therefore, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet Him, but Mary [e]stayed at the house. 21 Martha then said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 Even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.” 23 Jesus *said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” 24 Martha *said to Him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.” 25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, 26 and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?” 27 She *said to Him, “Yes, Lord; I have believed that You are [f]the Christ, the Son of God, even [g]He who comes into the world.”
28 When she had said this, she went away and called Mary her sister, saying secretly, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.” 29 And when she heard it, she *got up quickly and was coming to Him.
30 Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha met Him.31 Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and consoling her, when they saw that Mary got up quickly and went out, they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there. 32 Therefore, when Mary came where Jesus was, she saw Him, and fell at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and [h]was troubled, 34 and said, “Where have you laid him?” They *said to Him, “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus wept. 36 So the Jews were saying, “See how He loved him!” 37 But some of them said, “Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind man, [i]have kept this man also from dying?”
38 So Jesus, again being deeply moved within, *came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. 39 Jesus *said, “Remove the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, *said to Him, “Lord, by this time [j]there will be a stench, for he has been dead four days.” 40 Jesus *said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?” 41 So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised His eyes, and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. 42 I knew that You always hear Me; but because of the [k]people standing around I said it, so that they may believe that You sent Me.” 43 When He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth.” 44 The man who had died came forth, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus *said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”
Friday, January 29, 2016
Friday, January 29, 2016 - One Year Bible (Dec 7)
AM Devotion/Prayer
Hosea 6:1-9:17; 3 John 1-15; Psalm 126:1-6; Proverbs 29:12-14
Exercise: Cardio/Ab Challenge - Day 2
Hosea 6-9New American Standard Bible (NASB)
The Response to God’s Rebuke
6 “Come, let us return to the Lord.
For He has torn us, but He will heal us;
He has [a]wounded us, but He will bandage us.
2 “He will revive us after two days;
He will raise us up on the third day,
That we may live before Him.
3 “So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord.
His going forth is as certain as the dawn;
And He will come to us like the rain,
Like the spring rain watering the earth.”
4 What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?
What shall I do with you, O Judah?
For your [b]loyalty is like a morning cloud
And like the dew which goes away early.
5 Therefore I have hewn them in pieces by the prophets;
I have slain them by the words of My mouth;
And the judgments on you are like the light that goes forth.
6 For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice,
And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
7 But like [c]Adam they have transgressed the covenant;
There they have dealt treacherously against Me.
8 Gilead is a city of wrongdoers,
Tracked with bloody footprints.
9 And as raiders wait for a man,
So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem;
Surely they have committed [d]crime.
10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
Ephraim’s harlotry is there, Israel has defiled itself.
11 Also, O Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you,
When I restore the fortunes of My people.
Ephraim’s Iniquity
7 When I would heal Israel,
The iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered,
And the evil deeds of Samaria,
For they deal falsely;
The thief enters in,
Bandits raid outside,
2 And they do not [e]consider in their hearts
That I remember all their wickedness.
Now their deeds are all around them;
They are before My face.
3 With their wickedness they make the king glad,
And the princes with their lies.
4 They are all adulterers,
Like an oven heated by the baker
Who ceases to stir up the fire
From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
5 On the [f]day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine;
He stretched out his hand with scoffers,
6 For their hearts are like an oven
As they approach their [g]plotting;
Their [h]anger [i]smolders all night,
In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.
7 All of them are hot like an oven,
And they consume their rulers;
All their kings have fallen.
None of them calls on Me.
8 Ephraim mixes himself with the [j]nations;
Ephraim has become a cake not turned.
9 Strangers devour his strength,
Yet he does not know it;
Gray hairs also are sprinkled on him,
Yet he does not know it.
10 Though the pride of Israel testifies against him,
Yet they have not returned to the Lord their God,
Nor have they sought Him, for all this.
11 So Ephraim has become like a silly dove, without [k]sense;
They call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
12 When they go, I will spread My net over them;
I will bring them down like the birds of the sky.
I will chastise them in accordance with the [l]proclamation to their assembly.
13 Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me!
Destruction is theirs, for they have rebelled against Me!
I would redeem them, but they speak lies against Me.
14 And they do not cry to Me from their heart
When they wail on their beds;
For the sake of grain and new wine they [m]assemble themselves,
They turn away from Me.
15 Although I trained and strengthened their arms,
Yet they devise evil against Me.
16 They turn, but not [n]upward,
They are like a deceitful bow;
Their princes will fall by the sword
Because of the [o]insolence of their tongue.
This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.
Israel Reaps the Whirlwind
8 Put the trumpet to your [p]lips!
Like an eagle the enemy comes against the house of the Lord,
Because they have transgressed My covenant
And rebelled against My law.
2 They cry out to Me,
“My God, we of Israel know You!”
3 Israel has rejected the good;
The enemy will pursue him.
4 They have set up kings, but not by Me;
They have appointed princes, but I did not know it.
With their silver and gold they have made idols for themselves,
That [q]they might be cut off.
5 [r]He has rejected your calf, O Samaria, saying,
“My anger burns against them!”
How long will they be incapable of innocence?
6 For from Israel is even this!
A craftsman made it, so it is not God;
Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to [s]pieces.
7 For they sow the wind
And they reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no [t]heads;
It yields no [u]grain.
Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.
8 Israel is swallowed up;
They are now among the nations
Like a vessel in which no one delights.
9 For they have gone up to Assyria,
Like a wild donkey all alone;
Ephraim has hired [v]lovers.
10 Even though they hire allies among the nations,
Now I will gather them up;
And they will begin to [w]diminish
Because of the burden of the king of princes.
11 Since Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin,
They have become altars of sinning for him.
12 Though I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My law,
They are regarded as a strange thing.
13 As for My sacrificial gifts,
They sacrifice the flesh and eat it,
But the Lord has taken no delight in them.
Now He will remember their iniquity,
And punish them for their sins;
They will return to Egypt.
14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces;
And Judah has multiplied fortified cities,
But I will send a fire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.
Ephraim Punished
9 Do not rejoice, O Israel, [x]with exultation like the [y]nations!
For you have played the harlot, [z]forsaking your God.
You have loved harlots’ earnings on [aa]every threshing floor.
2 Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them,
And the new wine will fail [ab]them.
3 They will not remain in the Lord’s land,
But Ephraim will return to Egypt,
And in Assyria they will eat unclean food.
4 They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the Lord,
Their sacrifices will not please Him.
Their bread will [ac]be like [ad]mourners’ bread;
All who eat of it will be defiled,
For their bread will be for [ae]themselves alone;
It will not enter the house of the Lord.
5 What will you do on the day of the appointed festival
And on the day of the feast of the Lord?
6 For behold, they will go because of destruction;
Egypt will gather them up, Memphis will bury them.
Weeds will take over their treasures of silver;
Thorns will be in their tents.
7 The days of punishment have come,
The days of retribution have come;
[af]Let Israel know this!
The prophet is a fool,
The [ag]inspired man is demented,
Because of the grossness of your iniquity,
And because your hostility is so great.
8 Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet;
Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways,
And there is only hostility in the house of his God.
9 They have gone deep [ah]in depravity
As in the days of Gibeah;
He will remember their iniquity,
He will punish their sins.
10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness;
I saw your forefathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season.
But they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to [ai]shame,
And they became as detestable as that which they loved.
11 As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird—
No birth, no pregnancy and no conception!
12 Though they bring up their children,
Yet I will bereave them [aj]until not a man is left.
Yes, woe to them indeed when I depart from them!
13 Ephraim, as I have seen,
Is planted in a pleasant meadow like Tyre;
But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.
14 Give them, O Lord—what will You give?
Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
15 All their evil is at Gilgal;
Indeed, I came to hate them there!
Because of the wickedness of their deeds
I will drive them out of My house!
I will love them no more;
All their princes are rebels.
16 Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up,
They will bear no fruit.
Even though they bear children,
I will slay the precious ones of their womb.
17 My God will cast them away
Because they have not listened to Him;
And they will be wanderers among the nations.
Footnotes:
Hosea 6:1 Lit struck
Hosea 6:4 Or lovingkindness
Hosea 6:7 Or men
Hosea 6:9 Or lewdness
Hosea 7:2 Lit say to their heart
Hosea 7:5 I.e. a festive occasion
Hosea 7:6 Lit ambush
Hosea 7:6 So with some ancient versions; M.T. baker
Hosea 7:6 Lit sleeps
Hosea 7:8 Lit peoples
Hosea 7:11 Lit heart
Hosea 7:12 Lit report
Hosea 7:14 Or with Gr and many ancient mss gash themselves
Hosea 7:16 Or possibly to the Most High
Hosea 7:16 Lit indignation; or cursing
Hosea 8:1 Lit palate
Hosea 8:4 Lit he
Hosea 8:5 Or Your calf has rejected you
Hosea 8:6 Or splinters
Hosea 8:7 Lit growth
Hosea 8:7 Or meal
Hosea 8:9 Lit loves
Hosea 8:10 Or suffer for awhile
Hosea 9:1 Lit to
Hosea 9:1 Lit peoples
Hosea 9:1 Lit away from your God
Hosea 9:1 Lit all threshing floors of grain
Hosea 9:2 Lit her
Hosea 9:4 Lit be to them
Hosea 9:4 Or bread of misfortune
Hosea 9:4 Lit their appetite
Hosea 9:7 Or Israel will know it
Hosea 9:7 Lit man of the spirit
Hosea 9:9 Lit they have corrupted
Hosea 9:10 I.e. Baal
Hosea 9:12 Lit without a man
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3 John
3 JohnNew American Standard Bible (NASB)
You Walk in the Truth
1 The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.
2 Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers. 3 For I was very glad when brethren came and testified to your truth, that is, how you are walking in truth. 4 I have no greater joy than [a]this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.
5 Beloved, you are acting faithfully in whatever you accomplish for the brethren, and [b]especially when they are strangers; 6 and they have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God. 7 For they went out for the sake of the Name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles. 8 Therefore we ought to [c]support such men, so that we may [d]be fellow workers [e]with the truth.
9 I wrote something to the church; but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not accept [f]what we say. 10 For this reason, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words; and not satisfied with this, he himself does not receive the brethren, either, and he forbids those who desire to do so and puts them out of the church.
11 Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God. 12 Demetrius has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself; and we add our testimony, and you know that our testimony is true.
13 I had many things to write to you, but I am not willing to write them to you with pen and ink; 14 but I hope to see you shortly, and we will speak face to face.
15 Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends by name.
Footnotes:
3 John 1:4 Lit these things, that I hear
3 John 1:5 Lit this
3 John 1:8 Or receive such men as guests
3 John 1:8 Or prove ourselves to be
3 John 1:8 Or for
3 John 1:9 Lit us
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Psalm 126
Psalm 126New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Thanksgiving for Return from Captivity.
A Song of Ascents.
126 When the Lord brought back [a]the captive ones of Zion,
We were like those who dream.
2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter
And our tongue with joyful shouting;
Then they said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”
3 The Lord has done great things for us;
We are glad.
4 Restore our captivity, O Lord,
As the [b]streams in the [c]South.
5 Those who sow in tears shall reap with joyful shouting.
6 He who goes to and fro weeping, carrying his bag of seed,
Shall indeed come again with a shout of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.
Footnotes:
Psalm 126:1 Or those who returned to
Psalm 126:4 Lit stream-beds
Psalm 126:4 Heb Negev
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Proverbs 29:12-14
Proverbs 29:12-14New American Standard Bible (NASB)
12 If a ruler pays attention to falsehood,
All his ministers become wicked.
13 The poor man and the oppressor [a]have this in common:
The Lord gives light to the eyes of both.
14 If a king judges the poor with truth,
His throne will be established forever.
Hosea 6:1-9:17; 3 John 1-15; Psalm 126:1-6; Proverbs 29:12-14
Exercise: Cardio/Ab Challenge - Day 2
Hosea 6-9New American Standard Bible (NASB)
The Response to God’s Rebuke
6 “Come, let us return to the Lord.
For He has torn us, but He will heal us;
He has [a]wounded us, but He will bandage us.
2 “He will revive us after two days;
He will raise us up on the third day,
That we may live before Him.
3 “So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord.
His going forth is as certain as the dawn;
And He will come to us like the rain,
Like the spring rain watering the earth.”
4 What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?
What shall I do with you, O Judah?
For your [b]loyalty is like a morning cloud
And like the dew which goes away early.
5 Therefore I have hewn them in pieces by the prophets;
I have slain them by the words of My mouth;
And the judgments on you are like the light that goes forth.
6 For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice,
And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
7 But like [c]Adam they have transgressed the covenant;
There they have dealt treacherously against Me.
8 Gilead is a city of wrongdoers,
Tracked with bloody footprints.
9 And as raiders wait for a man,
So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem;
Surely they have committed [d]crime.
10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
Ephraim’s harlotry is there, Israel has defiled itself.
11 Also, O Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you,
When I restore the fortunes of My people.
Ephraim’s Iniquity
7 When I would heal Israel,
The iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered,
And the evil deeds of Samaria,
For they deal falsely;
The thief enters in,
Bandits raid outside,
2 And they do not [e]consider in their hearts
That I remember all their wickedness.
Now their deeds are all around them;
They are before My face.
3 With their wickedness they make the king glad,
And the princes with their lies.
4 They are all adulterers,
Like an oven heated by the baker
Who ceases to stir up the fire
From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
5 On the [f]day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine;
He stretched out his hand with scoffers,
6 For their hearts are like an oven
As they approach their [g]plotting;
Their [h]anger [i]smolders all night,
In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.
7 All of them are hot like an oven,
And they consume their rulers;
All their kings have fallen.
None of them calls on Me.
8 Ephraim mixes himself with the [j]nations;
Ephraim has become a cake not turned.
9 Strangers devour his strength,
Yet he does not know it;
Gray hairs also are sprinkled on him,
Yet he does not know it.
10 Though the pride of Israel testifies against him,
Yet they have not returned to the Lord their God,
Nor have they sought Him, for all this.
11 So Ephraim has become like a silly dove, without [k]sense;
They call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
12 When they go, I will spread My net over them;
I will bring them down like the birds of the sky.
I will chastise them in accordance with the [l]proclamation to their assembly.
13 Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me!
Destruction is theirs, for they have rebelled against Me!
I would redeem them, but they speak lies against Me.
14 And they do not cry to Me from their heart
When they wail on their beds;
For the sake of grain and new wine they [m]assemble themselves,
They turn away from Me.
15 Although I trained and strengthened their arms,
Yet they devise evil against Me.
16 They turn, but not [n]upward,
They are like a deceitful bow;
Their princes will fall by the sword
Because of the [o]insolence of their tongue.
This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.
Israel Reaps the Whirlwind
8 Put the trumpet to your [p]lips!
Like an eagle the enemy comes against the house of the Lord,
Because they have transgressed My covenant
And rebelled against My law.
2 They cry out to Me,
“My God, we of Israel know You!”
3 Israel has rejected the good;
The enemy will pursue him.
4 They have set up kings, but not by Me;
They have appointed princes, but I did not know it.
With their silver and gold they have made idols for themselves,
That [q]they might be cut off.
5 [r]He has rejected your calf, O Samaria, saying,
“My anger burns against them!”
How long will they be incapable of innocence?
6 For from Israel is even this!
A craftsman made it, so it is not God;
Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to [s]pieces.
7 For they sow the wind
And they reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no [t]heads;
It yields no [u]grain.
Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.
8 Israel is swallowed up;
They are now among the nations
Like a vessel in which no one delights.
9 For they have gone up to Assyria,
Like a wild donkey all alone;
Ephraim has hired [v]lovers.
10 Even though they hire allies among the nations,
Now I will gather them up;
And they will begin to [w]diminish
Because of the burden of the king of princes.
11 Since Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin,
They have become altars of sinning for him.
12 Though I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My law,
They are regarded as a strange thing.
13 As for My sacrificial gifts,
They sacrifice the flesh and eat it,
But the Lord has taken no delight in them.
Now He will remember their iniquity,
And punish them for their sins;
They will return to Egypt.
14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces;
And Judah has multiplied fortified cities,
But I will send a fire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.
Ephraim Punished
9 Do not rejoice, O Israel, [x]with exultation like the [y]nations!
For you have played the harlot, [z]forsaking your God.
You have loved harlots’ earnings on [aa]every threshing floor.
2 Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them,
And the new wine will fail [ab]them.
3 They will not remain in the Lord’s land,
But Ephraim will return to Egypt,
And in Assyria they will eat unclean food.
4 They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the Lord,
Their sacrifices will not please Him.
Their bread will [ac]be like [ad]mourners’ bread;
All who eat of it will be defiled,
For their bread will be for [ae]themselves alone;
It will not enter the house of the Lord.
5 What will you do on the day of the appointed festival
And on the day of the feast of the Lord?
6 For behold, they will go because of destruction;
Egypt will gather them up, Memphis will bury them.
Weeds will take over their treasures of silver;
Thorns will be in their tents.
7 The days of punishment have come,
The days of retribution have come;
[af]Let Israel know this!
The prophet is a fool,
The [ag]inspired man is demented,
Because of the grossness of your iniquity,
And because your hostility is so great.
8 Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet;
Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways,
And there is only hostility in the house of his God.
9 They have gone deep [ah]in depravity
As in the days of Gibeah;
He will remember their iniquity,
He will punish their sins.
10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness;
I saw your forefathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season.
But they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to [ai]shame,
And they became as detestable as that which they loved.
11 As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird—
No birth, no pregnancy and no conception!
12 Though they bring up their children,
Yet I will bereave them [aj]until not a man is left.
Yes, woe to them indeed when I depart from them!
13 Ephraim, as I have seen,
Is planted in a pleasant meadow like Tyre;
But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.
14 Give them, O Lord—what will You give?
Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
15 All their evil is at Gilgal;
Indeed, I came to hate them there!
Because of the wickedness of their deeds
I will drive them out of My house!
I will love them no more;
All their princes are rebels.
16 Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up,
They will bear no fruit.
Even though they bear children,
I will slay the precious ones of their womb.
17 My God will cast them away
Because they have not listened to Him;
And they will be wanderers among the nations.
Footnotes:
Hosea 6:1 Lit struck
Hosea 6:4 Or lovingkindness
Hosea 6:7 Or men
Hosea 6:9 Or lewdness
Hosea 7:2 Lit say to their heart
Hosea 7:5 I.e. a festive occasion
Hosea 7:6 Lit ambush
Hosea 7:6 So with some ancient versions; M.T. baker
Hosea 7:6 Lit sleeps
Hosea 7:8 Lit peoples
Hosea 7:11 Lit heart
Hosea 7:12 Lit report
Hosea 7:14 Or with Gr and many ancient mss gash themselves
Hosea 7:16 Or possibly to the Most High
Hosea 7:16 Lit indignation; or cursing
Hosea 8:1 Lit palate
Hosea 8:4 Lit he
Hosea 8:5 Or Your calf has rejected you
Hosea 8:6 Or splinters
Hosea 8:7 Lit growth
Hosea 8:7 Or meal
Hosea 8:9 Lit loves
Hosea 8:10 Or suffer for awhile
Hosea 9:1 Lit to
Hosea 9:1 Lit peoples
Hosea 9:1 Lit away from your God
Hosea 9:1 Lit all threshing floors of grain
Hosea 9:2 Lit her
Hosea 9:4 Lit be to them
Hosea 9:4 Or bread of misfortune
Hosea 9:4 Lit their appetite
Hosea 9:7 Or Israel will know it
Hosea 9:7 Lit man of the spirit
Hosea 9:9 Lit they have corrupted
Hosea 9:10 I.e. Baal
Hosea 9:12 Lit without a man
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3 John
3 JohnNew American Standard Bible (NASB)
You Walk in the Truth
1 The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.
2 Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers. 3 For I was very glad when brethren came and testified to your truth, that is, how you are walking in truth. 4 I have no greater joy than [a]this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.
5 Beloved, you are acting faithfully in whatever you accomplish for the brethren, and [b]especially when they are strangers; 6 and they have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God. 7 For they went out for the sake of the Name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles. 8 Therefore we ought to [c]support such men, so that we may [d]be fellow workers [e]with the truth.
9 I wrote something to the church; but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not accept [f]what we say. 10 For this reason, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words; and not satisfied with this, he himself does not receive the brethren, either, and he forbids those who desire to do so and puts them out of the church.
11 Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God. 12 Demetrius has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself; and we add our testimony, and you know that our testimony is true.
13 I had many things to write to you, but I am not willing to write them to you with pen and ink; 14 but I hope to see you shortly, and we will speak face to face.
15 Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends by name.
Footnotes:
3 John 1:4 Lit these things, that I hear
3 John 1:5 Lit this
3 John 1:8 Or receive such men as guests
3 John 1:8 Or prove ourselves to be
3 John 1:8 Or for
3 John 1:9 Lit us
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Psalm 126
Psalm 126New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Thanksgiving for Return from Captivity.
A Song of Ascents.
126 When the Lord brought back [a]the captive ones of Zion,
We were like those who dream.
2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter
And our tongue with joyful shouting;
Then they said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”
3 The Lord has done great things for us;
We are glad.
4 Restore our captivity, O Lord,
As the [b]streams in the [c]South.
5 Those who sow in tears shall reap with joyful shouting.
6 He who goes to and fro weeping, carrying his bag of seed,
Shall indeed come again with a shout of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.
Footnotes:
Psalm 126:1 Or those who returned to
Psalm 126:4 Lit stream-beds
Psalm 126:4 Heb Negev
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Proverbs 29:12-14
Proverbs 29:12-14New American Standard Bible (NASB)
12 If a ruler pays attention to falsehood,
All his ministers become wicked.
13 The poor man and the oppressor [a]have this in common:
The Lord gives light to the eyes of both.
14 If a king judges the poor with truth,
His throne will be established forever.
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Thursday, January 28, 2016 - One Year Bible (Dec 6)
AM Devotion/Prayer
Hosea 4:1-5:15; 2 John 1:1-13; Psalm 125:1-5; Proverbs 29:9-11
Exercise: Jogging
Hosea 4-5New American Standard Bible (NASB)
God’s Controversy with Israel
4 Listen to the word of the Lord, O sons of Israel,
For the Lord has a case against the inhabitants of the land,
Because there is no [a]faithfulness or [b]kindness
Or knowledge of God in the land.
2 There is swearing, deception, murder, stealing and adultery.
They employ violence, so that bloodshed [c]follows bloodshed.
3 Therefore the land mourns,
And everyone who lives in it languishes
Along with the beasts of the field and the birds of the sky,
And also the fish of the sea [d]disappear.
4 Yet let no one [e]find fault, and let none offer reproof;
For your people are like those who contend with the priest.
5 So you will stumble by day,
And the prophet also will stumble with you by night;
And I will destroy your mother.
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from being My priest.
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.
7 The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me;
I will change their glory into shame.
8 They feed on the [f]sin of My people
And direct their desire toward their iniquity.
9 And it will be, like people, like priest;
So I will punish them for their ways
And repay them for their deeds.
10 They will eat, but not have enough;
They will play the harlot, but not increase,
Because they have [g]stopped giving heed to the Lord.
11 Harlotry, wine and new wine take away the [h]understanding.
12 My people consult their wooden idol, and their diviner’s wand informs them;
For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray,
And they have played the harlot, departing [i]from their God.
13 They offer sacrifices on the tops of the mountains
And [j]burn incense on the hills,
Under oak, poplar and terebinth,
Because their shade is pleasant.
Therefore your daughters play the harlot
And your [k]brides commit adultery.
14 I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot
Or your [l]brides when they commit adultery,
For the men themselves go apart with harlots
And offer sacrifices with temple prostitutes;
So the people without understanding are [m]ruined.
15 Though you, Israel, play the harlot,
Do not let Judah become guilty;
Also do not go to Gilgal,
Or go up to Beth-aven
And take the oath:
“As the Lord lives!”
16 Since Israel is stubborn
Like a stubborn heifer,
[n]Can the Lord now pasture them
Like a lamb in a large field?
17 Ephraim is joined to idols;
Let him alone.
18 Their liquor gone,
They play the harlot continually;
Their [o]rulers dearly love shame.
19 The wind wraps them in its wings,
And they will be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
The People’s Apostasy Rebuked
5 Hear this, O priests!
Give heed, O house of Israel!
Listen, O house of the king!
For the judgment applies to you,
For you have been a snare at Mizpah
And a net spread out on Tabor.
2 The revolters have [p]gone deep in depravity,
But I will chastise all of them.
3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me;
For now, O Ephraim, you have played the harlot,
Israel has defiled itself.
4 Their deeds will not allow them
To return to their God.
For a spirit of harlotry is within them,
And they do not know the Lord.
5 Moreover, the pride of Israel testifies against him,
And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity;
Judah also has stumbled with them.
6 They will go with their flocks and herds
To seek the Lord, but they will not find Him;
He has withdrawn from them.
7 They have dealt treacherously against the Lord,
For they have borne [q]illegitimate children.
Now the new moon will devour them with their [r]land.
8 Blow the horn in Gibeah,
The trumpet in Ramah.
Sound an alarm at Beth-aven:
“Behind you, Benjamin!”
9 Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke;
Among the tribes of Israel I declare what is sure.
10 The princes of Judah have become like those who move a boundary;
On them I will pour out My wrath like water.
11 Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment,
Because he was determined to [s]follow man’s command.
12 Therefore I am like a moth to Ephraim
And like rottenness to the house of Judah.
13 When Ephraim saw his sickness,
And Judah his [t]wound,
Then Ephraim went to Assyria
And sent to [u]King Jareb.
But he is unable to heal you,
Or to cure you of your [v]wound.
14 For I will be like a lion to Ephraim
And like a young lion to the house of Judah.
I, even I, will tear to pieces and go away,
I will carry away, and there will be none to deliver.
15 I will go away and return to My place
Until they [w]acknowledge their guilt and seek My face;
In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.
Footnotes:
Hosea 4:1 Or truth
Hosea 4:1 Or loyalty
Hosea 4:2 Lit touches
Hosea 4:3 Lit are taken away
Hosea 4:4 Lit contend
Hosea 4:8 Or sin offering
Hosea 4:10 Lit forsaken giving heed; or forsaken the Lord to practice (v 11) harlotry
Hosea 4:11 Lit heart
Hosea 4:12 Lit from under
Hosea 4:13 Or offer sacrifices
Hosea 4:13 Or daughters-in-law
Hosea 4:14 Or daughters-in-law
Hosea 4:14 Lit thrust down
Hosea 4:16 Or Now the Lord will pasture...field
Hosea 4:18 Lit shields
Hosea 5:2 Or waded deep in slaughter
Hosea 5:7 Lit strange
Hosea 5:7 Lit portions
Hosea 5:11 Or with some ancient versions, follow nothingness
Hosea 5:13 Or ulcer
Hosea 5:13 Or the avenging king or the great king
Hosea 5:13 Or ulcer
Hosea 5:15 Or bear their punishment
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2 John
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Walk According to His Commandments
1 The elder to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not only I, but also all who know the truth, 2 for the sake of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever: 3 Grace, mercy and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
4 I was very glad to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we have received commandment to do from the Father. 5 Now I ask you, lady, not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another. 6 And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8 Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward. 9 [a]Anyone who [b]goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting; 11 for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds.
12 Though I have many things to write to you, I do not want to do so with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you and speak face to face, so that [c]your joy may be made full.
13 The children of your chosen sister greet you.
Footnotes:
2 John 1:9 Lit Everyone
2 John 1:9 Lit goes on ahead
2 John 1:12 One early ms reads our
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Psalm 125
Psalm 125New American Standard Bible (NASB)
The Lord Surrounds His People.
A Song of Ascents.
125 Those who trust in the Lord
Are as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but abides forever.
2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
So the Lord surrounds His people
From this time forth and forever.
3 For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest upon the [a]land of the righteous,
So that the righteous will not put forth their hands to do wrong.
4 Do good, O Lord, to those who are good
And to those who are upright in their hearts.
5 But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways,
The Lord will lead them away with the doers of iniquity.
Peace be upon Israel.
Footnotes:
Psalm 125:3 Lit lot
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Proverbs 29:9-11
Proverbs 29:9-11New American Standard Bible (NASB)
9 When a wise man has a controversy with a foolish man,
[a]The foolish man either rages or laughs, and there is no rest.
10 Men of bloodshed hate the blameless,
But the upright [b]are concerned for his life.
11 A fool [c]always loses his temper,
But a wise man holds it back.
Hosea 4:1-5:15; 2 John 1:1-13; Psalm 125:1-5; Proverbs 29:9-11
Exercise: Jogging
Hosea 4-5New American Standard Bible (NASB)
God’s Controversy with Israel
4 Listen to the word of the Lord, O sons of Israel,
For the Lord has a case against the inhabitants of the land,
Because there is no [a]faithfulness or [b]kindness
Or knowledge of God in the land.
2 There is swearing, deception, murder, stealing and adultery.
They employ violence, so that bloodshed [c]follows bloodshed.
3 Therefore the land mourns,
And everyone who lives in it languishes
Along with the beasts of the field and the birds of the sky,
And also the fish of the sea [d]disappear.
4 Yet let no one [e]find fault, and let none offer reproof;
For your people are like those who contend with the priest.
5 So you will stumble by day,
And the prophet also will stumble with you by night;
And I will destroy your mother.
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from being My priest.
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.
7 The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me;
I will change their glory into shame.
8 They feed on the [f]sin of My people
And direct their desire toward their iniquity.
9 And it will be, like people, like priest;
So I will punish them for their ways
And repay them for their deeds.
10 They will eat, but not have enough;
They will play the harlot, but not increase,
Because they have [g]stopped giving heed to the Lord.
11 Harlotry, wine and new wine take away the [h]understanding.
12 My people consult their wooden idol, and their diviner’s wand informs them;
For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray,
And they have played the harlot, departing [i]from their God.
13 They offer sacrifices on the tops of the mountains
And [j]burn incense on the hills,
Under oak, poplar and terebinth,
Because their shade is pleasant.
Therefore your daughters play the harlot
And your [k]brides commit adultery.
14 I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot
Or your [l]brides when they commit adultery,
For the men themselves go apart with harlots
And offer sacrifices with temple prostitutes;
So the people without understanding are [m]ruined.
15 Though you, Israel, play the harlot,
Do not let Judah become guilty;
Also do not go to Gilgal,
Or go up to Beth-aven
And take the oath:
“As the Lord lives!”
16 Since Israel is stubborn
Like a stubborn heifer,
[n]Can the Lord now pasture them
Like a lamb in a large field?
17 Ephraim is joined to idols;
Let him alone.
18 Their liquor gone,
They play the harlot continually;
Their [o]rulers dearly love shame.
19 The wind wraps them in its wings,
And they will be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
The People’s Apostasy Rebuked
5 Hear this, O priests!
Give heed, O house of Israel!
Listen, O house of the king!
For the judgment applies to you,
For you have been a snare at Mizpah
And a net spread out on Tabor.
2 The revolters have [p]gone deep in depravity,
But I will chastise all of them.
3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me;
For now, O Ephraim, you have played the harlot,
Israel has defiled itself.
4 Their deeds will not allow them
To return to their God.
For a spirit of harlotry is within them,
And they do not know the Lord.
5 Moreover, the pride of Israel testifies against him,
And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity;
Judah also has stumbled with them.
6 They will go with their flocks and herds
To seek the Lord, but they will not find Him;
He has withdrawn from them.
7 They have dealt treacherously against the Lord,
For they have borne [q]illegitimate children.
Now the new moon will devour them with their [r]land.
8 Blow the horn in Gibeah,
The trumpet in Ramah.
Sound an alarm at Beth-aven:
“Behind you, Benjamin!”
9 Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke;
Among the tribes of Israel I declare what is sure.
10 The princes of Judah have become like those who move a boundary;
On them I will pour out My wrath like water.
11 Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment,
Because he was determined to [s]follow man’s command.
12 Therefore I am like a moth to Ephraim
And like rottenness to the house of Judah.
13 When Ephraim saw his sickness,
And Judah his [t]wound,
Then Ephraim went to Assyria
And sent to [u]King Jareb.
But he is unable to heal you,
Or to cure you of your [v]wound.
14 For I will be like a lion to Ephraim
And like a young lion to the house of Judah.
I, even I, will tear to pieces and go away,
I will carry away, and there will be none to deliver.
15 I will go away and return to My place
Until they [w]acknowledge their guilt and seek My face;
In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.
Footnotes:
Hosea 4:1 Or truth
Hosea 4:1 Or loyalty
Hosea 4:2 Lit touches
Hosea 4:3 Lit are taken away
Hosea 4:4 Lit contend
Hosea 4:8 Or sin offering
Hosea 4:10 Lit forsaken giving heed; or forsaken the Lord to practice (v 11) harlotry
Hosea 4:11 Lit heart
Hosea 4:12 Lit from under
Hosea 4:13 Or offer sacrifices
Hosea 4:13 Or daughters-in-law
Hosea 4:14 Or daughters-in-law
Hosea 4:14 Lit thrust down
Hosea 4:16 Or Now the Lord will pasture...field
Hosea 4:18 Lit shields
Hosea 5:2 Or waded deep in slaughter
Hosea 5:7 Lit strange
Hosea 5:7 Lit portions
Hosea 5:11 Or with some ancient versions, follow nothingness
Hosea 5:13 Or ulcer
Hosea 5:13 Or the avenging king or the great king
Hosea 5:13 Or ulcer
Hosea 5:15 Or bear their punishment
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2 John
2 JohnNew American Standard Bible (NASB)
Walk According to His Commandments
1 The elder to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not only I, but also all who know the truth, 2 for the sake of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever: 3 Grace, mercy and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
4 I was very glad to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we have received commandment to do from the Father. 5 Now I ask you, lady, not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another. 6 And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8 Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward. 9 [a]Anyone who [b]goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting; 11 for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds.
12 Though I have many things to write to you, I do not want to do so with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you and speak face to face, so that [c]your joy may be made full.
13 The children of your chosen sister greet you.
Footnotes:
2 John 1:9 Lit Everyone
2 John 1:9 Lit goes on ahead
2 John 1:12 One early ms reads our
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Psalm 125
Psalm 125New American Standard Bible (NASB)
The Lord Surrounds His People.
A Song of Ascents.
125 Those who trust in the Lord
Are as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but abides forever.
2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
So the Lord surrounds His people
From this time forth and forever.
3 For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest upon the [a]land of the righteous,
So that the righteous will not put forth their hands to do wrong.
4 Do good, O Lord, to those who are good
And to those who are upright in their hearts.
5 But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways,
The Lord will lead them away with the doers of iniquity.
Peace be upon Israel.
Footnotes:
Psalm 125:3 Lit lot
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Proverbs 29:9-11
Proverbs 29:9-11New American Standard Bible (NASB)
9 When a wise man has a controversy with a foolish man,
[a]The foolish man either rages or laughs, and there is no rest.
10 Men of bloodshed hate the blameless,
But the upright [b]are concerned for his life.
11 A fool [c]always loses his temper,
But a wise man holds it back.
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