Hosea 5

English Standard Version

Punishment Coming for Israel and Judah

5 ^(A)Hear this, O priests!
    Pay attention, O house of Israel!
Give ear, O house of the king!
    For the judgment is for you;
for ^(B)you have been a snare at Mizpah
    and a net spread upon ^(C)Tabor.
²And ^(D)the revolters ^(E)have gone deep into slaughter,
    but ^(F)I will discipline all of them.

³^(G)I know Ephraim,
    and Israel is not hidden from me;
for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore;
    Israel is defiled.
⁴^(H)Their deeds do not permit them
    to return to their God.
For ^(I)the spirit of whoredom is within them,
    and they know not the Lord.

⁵^(J)The pride of Israel testifies to his face;^[a]
    Israel and ^(K)Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt;
    ^(L)Judah also shall stumble with them.
⁶^(M)With their flocks and herds they shall go
    to seek the Lord,
^(N)but they will not find him;
    ^(O)he has withdrawn from them.
⁷^(P)They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord;
    for they have borne alien children.
    Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.

⁸^(Q)Blow the horn in ^(R)Gibeah,
    the trumpet in ^(S)Ramah.
Sound the alarm at ^(T)Beth-aven;
    we follow you,^[b] O Benjamin!
⁹Ephraim shall become a desolation
    in the day of punishment;
among the tribes of Israel
    I make known what is sure.
¹⁰The princes of Judah have become
    like ^(U)those who move the landmark;
upon them I will pour out
    my wrath like water.
¹¹Ephraim is ^(V)oppressed, crushed in judgment,
    because he was determined to go after filth.^[c]
¹²But I am ^(W)like a moth to Ephraim,
    and ^(X)like dry rot to the house of Judah.

¹³When Ephraim saw his sickness,
    and Judah ^(Y)his wound,
then Ephraim went ^(Z)to Assyria,
    and sent to the great king.^[d]
^(AA)But he is not able to cure you
    or heal ^(AB)your wound.
¹⁴For I will be ^(AC)like a lion to ^(AD)Ephraim,
    and like a young lion to the house of ^(AE)Judah.
^(AF)I, even I, will tear and go away;
    I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.

¹⁵^(AG)I will return again to my place,
until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,
and ^(AH)in their distress earnestly seek me.

Footnotes

Hosea 5:5 Or in his presence
Hosea 5:8 Or after you
Hosea 5:11 Or to follow human precepts
Hosea 5:13 Or to King Jareb

Revelation 13

English Standard Version

The First Beast

13 And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, ^(A)with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and ^(B)blasphemous names on its heads. ²And the beast that I saw was ^(C)like a leopard; its feet were like ^(D)a bear's, and its mouth was like ^(E)a lion's mouth. And to it ^(F)the dragon gave his power and ^(G)his throne and great authority. ³One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and ^(H)the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. ⁴And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, ^(I)“Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?”

⁵And the beast was given ^(J)a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for ^(K)forty-two months. ⁶It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling,^[a] that is, those who dwell in heaven. ⁷Also it was allowed ^(L)to make war on the saints and to conquer them.^[b] And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation, ⁸and all ^(M)who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in ^(N)the book of life of ^(O)the Lamb ^(P)who was slain. ⁹^(Q)If anyone has an ear, let him hear:

¹⁰^(R)If anyone is to be taken captive,
to captivity he goes;
^(S)if anyone is to be slain with the sword,
with the sword must he be slain.

^(T)Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.

The Second Beast

¹¹Then ^(U)I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon. ¹²It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence,^[c] and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, ^(V)whose mortal wound was healed. ¹³^(W)It performs great signs, even ^(X)making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people, ¹⁴and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of^[d] the beast ^(Y)it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast ^(Z)that was wounded by the sword and yet lived. ¹⁵And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not ^(AA)worship the image of the beast ^(AB)to be slain. ¹⁶Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave,^[e] ^(AC)to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, ¹⁷so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, ^(AD)the name of the beast or ^(AE)the number of its name. ¹⁸^(AF)This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number ^(AG)of a man, and his number is 666.^[f]

Footnotes

Revelation 13:6 Or tabernacle
Revelation 13:7 Some manuscripts omit this sentence
Revelation 13:12 Or on its behalf
Revelation 13:14 Or on behalf of
Revelation 13:16 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface
Revelation 13:18 Some manuscripts 616