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Hosea 9-11; Revelation 3 (New International Version)

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Hosea 9-11 Listen to this passage Hosea 9 Punishment for Israel ¹ Do not rejoice, O Israel; do not be jubilant like the other nations. For you have been unfaithful to your God; you love the wages of a prostitute at every threshing floor. ² Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people; the new wine will fail them. ³ They will not remain in the LORD's land; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean ^[a] food in Assyria. ⁴ They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, nor will their sacrifices please him. Such sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat them will be unclean. This food will be for themselves; it will not come into the temple of the LORD. ⁵ What will you do on the day of your appointed feasts, on the festival days of the LORD ? ⁶ Even if they escape from destruction, Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them. Their treasures of silver will be taken over by briers, and thorns will overrun their tents. ⁷ The days of punishment are coming, the days of reckoning are at hand. Let Israel know this. Because your sins are so many and your hostility so great, the prophet is considered a fool, the inspired man a maniac. ⁸ The prophet, along with my God, is the watchman over Ephraim, ^[b] yet snares await him on all his paths, and hostility in the house of his God. ⁹ They have sunk deep into corruption, as in the days of Gibeah. God will remember their wickedness and punish them for their sins. ¹⁰ "When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the desert; when I saw your fathers, it was like seeing the early fruit on the fig tree. But when they came to Baal Peor, they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol and became as vile as the thing they loved. ¹¹ Ephraim's glory will fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception. ¹² Even if they rear children, I will bereave them of every one. Woe to them when I turn away from them! ¹³ I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place. But Ephraim will bring out their children to the slayer." ¹⁴ Give them, O LORD— what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that are dry. ¹⁵ "Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal, I hated them there. Because of their sinful deeds, I will drive them out of my house. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious. ¹⁶ Ephraim is blighted, their root is withered, they yield no fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay their cherished offspring." ¹⁷ My God will reject them because they have not obeyed him; they will be wanderers among the nations. Hosea 10 ¹ Israel was a spreading vine; he brought forth fruit for himself. As his fruit increased, he built more altars; as his land prospered, he adorned his sacred stones. ² Their heart is deceitful, and now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will demolish their altars and destroy their sacred stones. ³ Then they will say, "We have no king because we did not revere the LORD. But even if we had a king, what could he do for us?" ⁴ They make many promises, take false oaths and make agreements; therefore lawsuits spring up like poisonous weeds in a plowed field. ⁵ The people who live in Samaria fear for the calf-idol of Beth Aven. ^[c] Its people will mourn over it, and so will its idolatrous priests, those who had rejoiced over its splendor, because it is taken from them into exile. ⁶ It will be carried to Assyria as tribute for the great king. Ephraim will be disgraced; Israel will be ashamed of its wooden idols. ^[d] ⁷ Samaria and its king will float away like a twig on the surface of the waters. ⁸ The high places of wickedness ^[e] will be destroyed— it is the sin of Israel. Thorns and thistles will grow up and cover their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, "Cover us!" and to the hills, "Fall on us!" ⁹ "Since the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, O Israel, and there you have remained. ^[f] Did not war overtake the evildoers in Gibeah? ¹⁰ When I please, I will punish them; nations will be gathered against them to put them in bonds for their double sin. ¹¹ Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her fair neck. I will drive Ephraim, Judah must plow, and Jacob must break up the ground. ¹² Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers righteousness on you. ¹³ But you have planted wickedness, you have reaped evil, you have eaten the fruit of deception. Because you have depended on your own strength and on your many warriors, ¹⁴ the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be devastated— as Shalman devastated Beth Arbel on the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children. ¹⁵ Thus will it happen to you, O Bethel, because your wickedness is great. When that day dawns, the king of Israel will be completely destroyed. Hosea 11 God's Love for Israel ¹ "When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. ² But the more I ^[g] called Israel, the further they went from me. ^[h] They sacrificed to the Baals and they burned incense to images. ³ It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by the arms; but they did not realize it was I who healed them. ⁴ I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love; I lifted the yoke from their neck and bent down to feed them. ⁵ "Will they not return to Egypt and will not Assyria rule over them because they refuse to repent? ⁶ Swords will flash in their cities, will destroy the bars of their gates and put an end to their plans. ⁷ My people are determined to turn from me. Even if they call to the Most High, he will by no means exalt them. ⁸ "How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I treat you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is changed within me; all my compassion is aroused. ⁹ I will not carry out my fierce anger, nor will I turn and devastate Ephraim. For I am God, and not man— the Holy One among you. I will not come in wrath. ^[i] ¹⁰ They will follow the LORD; he will roar like a lion. When he roars, his children will come trembling from the west. ¹¹ They will come trembling like birds from Egypt, like doves from Assyria. I will settle them in their homes," declares the LORD. Israel's Sin ¹² Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, the house of Israel with deceit. And Judah is unruly against God, even against the faithful Holy One. Footnotes: Hosea 9:3 That is, ceremonially unclean Hosea 9:8 Or The prophet is the watchman over Ephraim, / the people of my God Hosea 10:5 Beth Aven means house of wickedness (a name for Bethel, which means house of God ). Hosea 10:6 Or its counsel Hosea 10:8 Hebrew aven , a reference to Beth Aven (a derogatory name for Bethel) Hosea 10:9 Or there a stand was taken Hosea 11:2 Some Septuagint manuscripts; Hebrew they Hosea 11:2 Septuagint; Hebrew them Hosea 11:9 Or come against any city New International Version (NIV) Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica
Revelation 3 Listen to this passage View commentary related to this passage Revelation 3 To the Church in Sardis ¹"To the angel^[a] of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits^[b]of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. ²Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God. ³Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you. ⁴Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. ⁵He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels. ⁶He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the Church in Philadelphia ⁷"To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. ⁸I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. ⁹I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you. ¹⁰Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth. ¹¹I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. ¹²Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name. ¹³He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the Church in Laodicea ¹⁴"To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God's creation. ¹⁵I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! ¹⁶So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. ¹⁷You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. ¹⁸I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see. ¹⁹Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent. ²⁰Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. ²¹To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne. ²²He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches." Footnotes: Revelation 3:1 Or messenger; also in verses 7 and 14 Revelation 3:1 Or the sevenfold Spirit New International Version (NIV) Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica

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Hosea 9-11

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Hosea 9

Punishment for Israel

¹ Do not rejoice, O Israel;
       do not be jubilant like the other nations.
       For you have been unfaithful to your God;
       you love the wages of a prostitute
       at every threshing floor.

² Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people;
the new wine will fail them.

³ They will not remain in the LORD's land;
Ephraim will return to Egypt
and eat unclean ^[a] food in Assyria.

⁴ They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD,
       nor will their sacrifices please him.
       Such sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;
       all who eat them will be unclean.
       This food will be for themselves;
       it will not come into the temple of the LORD.

⁵ What will you do on the day of your appointed feasts,
on the festival days of the LORD ?

⁶ Even if they escape from destruction,
       Egypt will gather them,
       and Memphis will bury them.
       Their treasures of silver will be taken over by briers,
       and thorns will overrun their tents.

⁷ The days of punishment are coming,
       the days of reckoning are at hand.
       Let Israel know this.
       Because your sins are so many
       and your hostility so great,
       the prophet is considered a fool,
       the inspired man a maniac.

⁸ The prophet, along with my God,
       is the watchman over Ephraim, ^[b]
       yet snares await him on all his paths,
       and hostility in the house of his God.

⁹ They have sunk deep into corruption,
       as in the days of Gibeah.
       God will remember their wickedness
       and punish them for their sins.

¹⁰ "When I found Israel,
       it was like finding grapes in the desert;
       when I saw your fathers,
       it was like seeing the early fruit on the fig tree.
       But when they came to Baal Peor,
       they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol
       and became as vile as the thing they loved.

¹¹ Ephraim's glory will fly away like a bird—
no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.

¹² Even if they rear children,
       I will bereave them of every one.
       Woe to them
       when I turn away from them!

¹³ I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre,
       planted in a pleasant place.
       But Ephraim will bring out
       their children to the slayer."

¹⁴ Give them, O LORD—
       what will you give them?
       Give them wombs that miscarry
       and breasts that are dry.

¹⁵ "Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal,
       I hated them there.
       Because of their sinful deeds,
       I will drive them out of my house.
       I will no longer love them;
       all their leaders are rebellious.

¹⁶ Ephraim is blighted,
       their root is withered,
       they yield no fruit.
       Even if they bear children,
       I will slay their cherished offspring."

¹⁷ My God will reject them
because they have not obeyed him;
they will be wanderers among the nations.

Hosea 10

¹ Israel was a spreading vine;
       he brought forth fruit for himself.
       As his fruit increased,
       he built more altars;
       as his land prospered,
       he adorned his sacred stones.

² Their heart is deceitful,
       and now they must bear their guilt.
       The LORD will demolish their altars
       and destroy their sacred stones.

³ Then they will say, "We have no king
       because we did not revere the LORD.
       But even if we had a king,
       what could he do for us?"

⁴ They make many promises,
       take false oaths
       and make agreements;
       therefore lawsuits spring up
       like poisonous weeds in a plowed field.

⁵ The people who live in Samaria fear
       for the calf-idol of Beth Aven. ^[c]
       Its people will mourn over it,
       and so will its idolatrous priests,
       those who had rejoiced over its splendor,
       because it is taken from them into exile.

⁶ It will be carried to Assyria
       as tribute for the great king.
       Ephraim will be disgraced;
       Israel will be ashamed of its wooden idols. ^[d]

⁷ Samaria and its king will float away
like a twig on the surface of the waters.

⁸ The high places of wickedness ^[e] will be destroyed—
       it is the sin of Israel.
       Thorns and thistles will grow up
       and cover their altars.
       Then they will say to the mountains, "Cover us!"
       and to the hills, "Fall on us!"

⁹ "Since the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, O Israel,
       and there you have remained. ^[f]
       Did not war overtake
       the evildoers in Gibeah?

¹⁰ When I please, I will punish them;
nations will be gathered against them
to put them in bonds for their double sin.

¹¹ Ephraim is a trained heifer
       that loves to thresh;
       so I will put a yoke
       on her fair neck.
       I will drive Ephraim,
       Judah must plow,
       and Jacob must break up the ground.

¹² Sow for yourselves righteousness,
       reap the fruit of unfailing love,
       and break up your unplowed ground;
       for it is time to seek the LORD,
       until he comes
       and showers righteousness on you.

¹³ But you have planted wickedness,
       you have reaped evil,
       you have eaten the fruit of deception.
       Because you have depended on your own strength
       and on your many warriors,

¹⁴ the roar of battle will rise against your people,
       so that all your fortresses will be devastated—
       as Shalman devastated Beth Arbel on the day of battle,
       when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children.

¹⁵ Thus will it happen to you, O Bethel,
       because your wickedness is great.
       When that day dawns,
       the king of Israel will be completely destroyed.

Hosea 11

God's Love for Israel

¹ "When Israel was a child, I loved him,
and out of Egypt I called my son.

² But the more I ^[g] called Israel,
       the further they went from me. ^[h]
       They sacrificed to the Baals
       and they burned incense to images.

³ It was I who taught Ephraim to walk,
       taking them by the arms;
       but they did not realize
       it was I who healed them.

⁴ I led them with cords of human kindness,
       with ties of love;
       I lifted the yoke from their neck
       and bent down to feed them.

⁵ "Will they not return to Egypt
and will not Assyria rule over them
because they refuse to repent?

⁶ Swords will flash in their cities,
will destroy the bars of their gates
and put an end to their plans.

⁷ My people are determined to turn from me.
Even if they call to the Most High,
he will by no means exalt them.

⁸ "How can I give you up, Ephraim?
       How can I hand you over, Israel?
       How can I treat you like Admah?
       How can I make you like Zeboiim?
       My heart is changed within me;
       all my compassion is aroused.

⁹ I will not carry out my fierce anger,
       nor will I turn and devastate Ephraim.
       For I am God, and not man—
       the Holy One among you.
       I will not come in wrath. ^[i]

¹⁰ They will follow the LORD;
       he will roar like a lion.
       When he roars,
       his children will come trembling from the west.

¹¹ They will come trembling
       like birds from Egypt,
       like doves from Assyria.
       I will settle them in their homes,"
       declares the LORD.

Israel's Sin

¹² Ephraim has surrounded me with lies,
       the house of Israel with deceit.
       And Judah is unruly against God,
       even against the faithful Holy One.

Footnotes:

Hosea 9:3 That is, ceremonially unclean
Hosea 9:8 Or The prophet is the watchman over Ephraim, / the people of my God
Hosea 10:5 Beth Aven means house of wickedness (a name for Bethel, which means house of God ).
Hosea 10:6 Or its counsel
Hosea 10:8 Hebrew aven , a reference to Beth Aven (a derogatory name for Bethel)
Hosea 10:9 Or there a stand was taken
Hosea 11:2 Some Septuagint manuscripts; Hebrew they
Hosea 11:2 Septuagint; Hebrew them
Hosea 11:9 Or come against any city

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Revelation 3

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Revelation 3

To the Church in Sardis

¹"To the angel^[a] of the church in Sardis write:
These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits^[b]of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. ²Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God. ³Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you. ⁴Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. ⁵He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels. ⁶He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

To the Church in Philadelphia

⁷"To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:
These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. ⁸I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. ⁹I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you. ¹⁰Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth. ¹¹I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. ¹²Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name. ¹³He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

To the Church in Laodicea

¹⁴"To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:
These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God's creation. ¹⁵I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! ¹⁶So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. ¹⁷You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. ¹⁸I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see. ¹⁹Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent. ²⁰Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. ²¹To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne. ²²He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."

Footnotes:

Revelation 3:1 Or messenger; also in verses 7 and 14
Revelation 3:1 Or the sevenfold Spirit

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Hosea 9-11; Revelation 3 (New International Version)

Hosea 9

Punishment for Israel

Hosea 10

Hosea 11

God's Love for Israel

Israel's Sin

Revelation 3

To the Church in Sardis

To the Church in Philadelphia

To the Church in Laodicea