Hosea 1-6

English Standard Version

1 The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, ^(A)in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of ^(B)Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

Hosea's Wife and Children

²When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, ^(C)“Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have ^(D)children of whoredom, for ^(E)the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.” ³So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

⁴And the Lord said to him, “Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while ^(F)I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and ^(G)I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel. ⁵And on that day ^(H)I will break the bow of Israel ^(I)in the Valley of Jezreel.”

⁶She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, ^(J)“Call her name No Mercy,^[a] for ^(K)I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all. ⁷But ^(L)I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord their God. I ^(M)will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen.”

⁸When she had weaned No Mercy, she conceived and bore a son. ⁹And the Lord said, ^(N)“Call his name Not My People,^[b] for ^(O)you are not my people, and I am not your God.”^[c]

¹⁰^[d] Yet ^(P)the number of the children of Israel shall be ^(Q)like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. ^(R)And ^(S)in the place where it was said to them, ^(T)“You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, ^(U)“Children^[e] of ^(V)the living God.” ¹¹And ^(W)the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and ^(X)they shall appoint for themselves one head. And they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

Israel's Unfaithfulness Punished

2 ^[f] Say to your brothers, ^(Y)“You are my people,”^[g] and to your sisters, ^(Z)“You have received mercy.”^[h]

²“Plead with your mother, plead—
    for ^(AA)she is not my wife,
    and I am not her husband—
that she put away ^(AB)her whoring from her face,
    and her adultery from between her breasts;
³lest ^(AC)I strip her naked
    and make her as ^(AD)in the day she was born,
and ^(AE)make her like a wilderness,
    and make her like a parched land,
    and kill her with thirst.
⁴^(AF)Upon her children also I will have no mercy,
    ^(AG)because they are children of whoredom.
⁵For ^(AH)their mother has played the whore;
    she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For ^(AI)she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
    who ^(AJ)give me my bread and my water,
    my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
⁶Therefore ^(AK)I will hedge up her^[i] way with thorns,
    and ^(AL)I will build a wall against her,
    so that she cannot find her paths.
⁷She shall pursue her lovers
    but not overtake them,
and she shall seek them
    but shall not find them.
^(AM)Then she shall say,
    ‘I will go and return to ^(AN)my first husband,
    ^(AO)for it was better for me then than now.’
⁸And ^(AP)she did not know
    that it was ^(AQ)I who gave her
    ^(AR)the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and who lavished on ^(AS)her silver and gold,
    ^(AT)which they used for Baal.
⁹Therefore ^(AU)I will take back
    my grain in its time,
    and my wine in its season,
and ^(AV)I will take away my wool and my flax,
    which were to cover her nakedness.
¹⁰Now ^(AW)I will uncover her lewdness
    in the sight of her lovers,
    and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.
¹¹^(AX)And I will put an end to all her mirth,
    her feasts, her ^(AY)new moons, her ^(AZ)Sabbaths,
    and all her ^(BA)appointed feasts.
¹²And ^(BB)I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
    ^(BC)of which she said,
‘These are ^(BD)my wages,
    which my lovers have given me.’
I will make them a forest,
    ^(BE)and the beasts of the field shall devour them.
¹³And ^(BF)I will punish her for ^(BG)the feast days of the Baals
    when she burned offerings to them
and ^(BH)adorned herself with her ring and jewelry,
    and went after her lovers
    and forgot me, declares the Lord.

The Lord's Mercy on Israel

¹⁴“Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
    and ^(BI)bring her into the wilderness,
    and ^(BJ)speak tenderly to her.
¹⁵And there I will give her her vineyards
    and make the Valley of Achor^[j] a door of hope.
And there she shall answer ^(BK)as in the days of her youth,
    as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁶“And ^(BL)in that day, declares the Lord, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’ ¹⁷For ^(BM)I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more. ¹⁸And ^(BN)I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And ^(BO)I will abolish^[k] the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in ^(BP)safety. ¹⁹And I will betroth you to me ^(BQ)forever. ^(BR)I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. ²⁰^(BS)I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And ^(BT)you shall know the Lord.

²¹“And ^(BU)in that day ^(BV)I will answer, declares the Lord,
    I will answer the heavens,
    and they shall answer the earth,
²²and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil,
    and they shall answer ^(BW)Jezreel,^[l]
²³    and ^(BX)I will sow her for myself in the land.
And ^(BY)I ^(BZ)will have mercy on No Mercy,^[m]
    and ^(CA)I will say to Not My People,^[n] ^(CB)‘You are my people’;
    and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’”

Hosea Redeems His Wife

3 And the Lord said to me, ^(CC)“Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.” ²So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a ^(CD)homer and a lethech^[o] of barley. ³And I said to her, “You must ^(CE)dwell as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you.” ⁴For the children of Israel ^(CF)shall dwell many days ^(CG)without king or prince, ^(CH)without sacrifice or ^(CI)pillar, without ^(CJ)ephod or ^(CK)household gods. ⁵Afterward ^(CL)the children of Israel shall return and ^(CM)seek the Lord their God, and ^(CN)David their king, ^(CO)and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the ^(CP)latter days.

The Lord Accuses Israel

4 ^(CQ)Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel,
    for ^(CR)the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land.
There is no faithfulness or steadfast love,
    and ^(CS)no knowledge of God in the land;
²^(CT)there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery;
    they break all bounds, and ^(CU)bloodshed follows bloodshed.
³Therefore ^(CV)the land mourns,
    and all who dwell in it languish,
^(CW)and also the beasts of the field
    and the birds of the heavens,
    ^(CX)and even the fish of the sea are taken away.

⁴^(CY)Yet let no one contend,
    and let none accuse,
    for with you is ^(CZ)my contention, O priest.^[p]
⁵You shall stumble by day;
    the prophet also shall stumble with you by night;
    and I will destroy ^(DA)your mother.
⁶My people are destroyed ^(DB)for lack of knowledge;
    ^(DC)because you have rejected knowledge,
    I reject you ^(DD)from being a priest to me.
And since you have forgotten the law of your God,
    ^(DE)I also will forget your children.

⁷^(DF)The more they increased,
    the more they sinned against me;
    ^(DG)I will change their glory into shame.
⁸^(DH)They feed on the sin^[q] of my people;
    they are greedy for their iniquity.
⁹^(DI)And it shall be like people, like priest;
    I will punish them for their ways
    and repay them for their deeds.
¹⁰^(DJ)They shall eat, but not be satisfied;
    they shall play the whore, but not multiply,
because they have forsaken the Lord
    to cherish ¹¹whoredom, wine, and new wine,
    which ^(DK)take away the understanding.
¹²My people ^(DL)inquire of a piece of wood,
    and their walking staff gives them oracles.
For ^(DM)a spirit of whoredom has led them astray,
    and they have left their God to play the whore.
¹³^(DN)They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains
    and burn offerings on the hills,
^(DO)under oak, poplar, and terebinth,
    because their shade is good.
Therefore your daughters play the whore,
    and your brides commit adultery.
¹⁴I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore,
    nor your brides when they commit adultery;
for ^(DP)the men themselves go aside with prostitutes
    and sacrifice with ^(DQ)cult prostitutes,
and a people ^(DR)without understanding shall come to ruin.

¹⁵Though you play the whore, O ^(DS)Israel,
    let not ^(DT)Judah become guilty.
^(DU)Enter not into ^(DV)Gilgal,
    nor go up to ^(DW)Beth-aven,
    and swear not, “As the Lord lives.”
¹⁶Like a stubborn heifer,
    Israel is stubborn;
can the Lord now feed them
    like a lamb in a broad pasture?

¹⁷^(DX)Ephraim is joined to idols;
    ^(DY)leave him alone.
¹⁸When their drink is gone, they give themselves to whoring;
    ^(DZ)their rulers^[r] dearly love shame.
¹⁹^(EA)A wind has wrapped them^[s] in its wings,
    and they shall ^(EB)be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

Punishment Coming for Israel and Judah

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

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

⁵^(EL)The pride of Israel testifies to his face;^[t]
    Israel and ^(EM)Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt;
    ^(EN)Judah also shall stumble with them.
⁶^(EO)With their flocks and herds they shall go
    to seek the Lord,
^(EP)but they will not find him;
    ^(EQ)he has withdrawn from them.
⁷^(ER)They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord;
    for they have borne alien children.
    Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.

⁸^(ES)Blow the horn in ^(ET)Gibeah,
    the trumpet in ^(EU)Ramah.
Sound the alarm at ^(EV)Beth-aven;
    we follow you,^[u] 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 ^(EW)those who move the landmark;
upon them I will pour out
    my wrath like water.
¹¹Ephraim is ^(EX)oppressed, crushed in judgment,
    because he was determined to go after filth.^[v]
¹²But I am ^(EY)like a moth to Ephraim,
    and ^(EZ)like dry rot to the house of Judah.

¹³When Ephraim saw his sickness,
    and Judah ^(FA)his wound,
then Ephraim went ^(FB)to Assyria,
    and sent to the great king.^[w]
^(FC)But he is not able to cure you
    or heal ^(FD)your wound.
¹⁴For I will be ^(FE)like a lion to ^(FF)Ephraim,
    and like a young lion to the house of ^(FG)Judah.
^(FH)I, even I, will tear and go away;
    I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.

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

Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant

6 “Come, let us ^(FK)return to the Lord;
    for ^(FL)he has torn us, that he may heal us;
    he has struck us down, and ^(FM)he will bind us up.
²After two days ^(FN)he will revive us;
    on the third day he will raise us up,
    that we may live before him.
³^(FO)Let us know; ^(FP)let us press on to know the Lord;
    ^(FQ)his going out is sure as the dawn;
he will come to us ^(FR)as the showers,
    ^(FS)as the spring rains that water the earth.”

⁴What shall I do with you, ^(FT)O ^(FU)Ephraim?
    What shall I do with you, O ^(FV)Judah?
Your love is ^(FW)like a morning cloud,
    ^(FX)like the dew that goes early away.
⁵Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets;
    I have slain them ^(FY)by the words of my mouth,
    and my judgment goes forth as the light.
⁶For ^(FZ)I desire steadfast love^[x] and not sacrifice,
    ^(GA)the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

⁷But ^(GB)like Adam they ^(GC)transgressed the covenant;
    ^(GD)there they dealt faithlessly with me.
⁸^(GE)Gilead is a city of evildoers,
    ^(GF)tracked with blood.
⁹As robbers ^(GG)lie in wait for a man,
    so the priests band together;
they murder on the way to ^(GH)Shechem;
    they commit villainy.
¹⁰In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
    ^(GI)Ephraim's whoredom is there; ^(GJ)Israel is defiled.

¹¹For you also, O ^(GK)Judah, ^(GL)a harvest is appointed.

When ^(GM)I restore the fortunes of my people,

Notas al pie

Hosea 1:6 Hebrew Lo-ruhama, which means she has not received mercy
Hosea 1:9 Hebrew Lo-ammi, which means not my people
Hosea 1:9 Hebrew I am not yours
Hosea 1:10 Ch 2:1 in Hebrew
Hosea 1:10 Or Sons
Hosea 2:1 Ch 2:3 in Hebrew
Hosea 2:1 Hebrew ammi, which means my people
Hosea 2:1 Hebrew ruhama, which means she has received mercy
Hosea 2:6 Hebrew your
Hosea 2:15 Achor means trouble; compare Joshua 7:26
Hosea 2:18 Hebrew break
Hosea 2:22 Jezreel means God will sow
Hosea 2:23 Hebrew Lo-ruhama
Hosea 2:23 Hebrew Lo-ammi
Hosea 3:2 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams; a homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters; a lethech was about 3 bushels or 110 liters
Hosea 4:4 Or for your people are like those who contend with the priest
Hosea 4:8 Or sin offering
Hosea 4:18 Hebrew shields
Hosea 4:19 Hebrew her
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
Hosea 6:6 Septuagint mercy

Revelation 3

English Standard Version

To the Church in Sardis

3 “And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him ^(A)who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars.

“‘I know your works. You have the reputation ^(B)of being alive, ^(C)but you are dead. ²Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works ^(D)complete in the sight of my God. ³^(E)Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, ^(F)I will come ^(G)like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you. ⁴Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not ^(H)soiled their garments, and they will walk with me ^(I)in white, for they are ^(J)worthy. ⁵^(K)The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never ^(L)blot his name out of ^(M)the book of life. ^(N)I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. ⁶^(O)He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

To the Church in Philadelphia

⁷“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of ^(P)the holy one, ^(Q)the true one, ^(R)who has the key of David, ^(S)who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.

⁸“‘I know your works. Behold, I have set before you ^(T)an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. ⁹Behold, I will make those of ^(U)the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, ^(V)I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they will learn that ^(W)I have loved you. ¹⁰^(X)Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try ^(Y)those who dwell on the earth. ¹¹^(Z)I am coming soon. ^(AA)Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize ^(AB)your crown. ¹²^(AC)The one who conquers, I will make him ^(AD)a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him ^(AE)the name of my God, and ^(AF)the name of the city of my God, ^(AG)the new Jerusalem, ^(AH)which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own ^(AI)new name. ¹³^(AJ)He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

To the Church in Laodicea

¹⁴“And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the ^(AK)Amen, ^(AL)the faithful and true witness, ^(AM)the beginning of God's creation.

¹⁵“‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. ^(AN)Would that you were either cold or hot! ¹⁶So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. ¹⁷^(AO)For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, ^(AP)blind, and naked. ¹⁸I counsel you ^(AQ)to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and ^(AR)white garments so that you may clothe yourself and ^(AS)the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, ^(AT)so that you may see. ¹⁹^(AU)Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent. ²⁰Behold, I stand at the door and ^(AV)knock. ^(AW)If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, ^(AX)I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. ²¹^(AY)The one who conquers, ^(AZ)I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as ^(BA)I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne. ²²^(BB)He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”