Hosea 6-7

New International Version

Israel Unrepentant

6 “Come, let us return^(A) to the Lord.
He has torn us to pieces^(B)
    but he will heal us;^(C)
he has injured us
    but he will bind up our wounds.^(D)
²After two days he will revive us;^(E)
    on the third day^(F) he will restore^(G) us,
    that we may live in his presence.
³Let us acknowledge the Lord;
    let us press on to acknowledge him.
As surely as the sun rises,
    he will appear;
he will come to us like the winter rains,^(H)
    like the spring rains that water the earth.^(I)”

⁴“What can I do with you, Ephraim?^(J)
    What can I do with you, Judah?
Your love is like the morning mist,
    like the early dew that disappears.^(K)
⁵Therefore I cut you in pieces with my prophets,
    I killed you with the words of my mouth^(L)—
    then my judgments go forth like the sun.^[a]^(M)
⁶For I desire mercy, not sacrifice,^(N)
    and acknowledgment^(O) of God rather than burnt offerings.^(P)
⁷As at Adam,^[b] they have broken the covenant;^(Q)
    they were unfaithful^(R) to me there.
⁸Gilead is a city of evildoers,^(S)
    stained with footprints of blood.
⁹As marauders lie in ambush for a victim,^(T)
    so do bands of priests;
they murder^(U) on the road to Shechem,
    carrying out their wicked schemes.^(V)
¹⁰I have seen a horrible^(W) thing in Israel:
    There Ephraim is given to prostitution,
    Israel is defiled.^(X)

¹¹“Also for you, Judah,
a harvest^(Y) is appointed.

“Whenever I would restore the fortunes^(Z) of my people,

7 ¹whenever I would heal Israel,
the sins of Ephraim are exposed
    and the crimes of Samaria revealed.^(AA)
They practice deceit,^(AB)
    thieves break into houses,^(AC)
    bandits rob in the streets;^(AD)
²but they do not realize
    that I remember^(AE) all their evil deeds.^(AF)
Their sins engulf them;^(AG)
    they are always before me.

³“They delight the king with their wickedness,
    the princes with their lies.^(AH)
⁴They are all adulterers,^(AI)
    burning like an oven
whose fire the baker need not stir
    from the kneading of the dough till it rises.
⁵On the day of the festival of our king
    the princes become inflamed with wine,^(AJ)
    and he joins hands with the mockers.^(AK)
⁶Their hearts are like an oven;^(AL)
    they approach him with intrigue.
Their passion smolders all night;
    in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
⁷All of them are hot as an oven;
    they devour their rulers.
All their kings fall,^(AM)
    and none of them calls^(AN) on me.

⁸“Ephraim mixes^(AO) with the nations;
    Ephraim is a flat loaf not turned over.
⁹Foreigners sap his strength,^(AP)
    but he does not realize it.
His hair is sprinkled with gray,
    but he does not notice.
¹⁰Israel’s arrogance testifies against him,^(AQ)
    but despite all this
he does not return^(AR) to the Lord his God
    or search^(AS) for him.

¹¹“Ephraim is like a dove,^(AT)
    easily deceived and senseless—
now calling to Egypt,^(AU)
    now turning to Assyria.^(AV)
¹²When they go, I will throw my net^(AW) over them;
    I will pull them down like the birds in the sky.
When I hear them flocking together,
    I will catch them.
¹³Woe^(AX) to them,
    because they have strayed^(AY) from me!
Destruction to them,
    because they have rebelled against me!
I long to redeem them
    but they speak about me^(AZ) falsely.^(BA)
¹⁴They do not cry out to me from their hearts^(BB)
    but wail on their beds.
They slash themselves,^[c] appealing to their gods
    for grain and new wine,^(BC)
    but they turn away from me.^(BD)
¹⁵I trained^(BE) them and strengthened their arms,
    but they plot evil^(BF) against me.
¹⁶They do not turn to the Most High;^(BG)
    they are like a faulty bow.^(BH)
Their leaders will fall by the sword
    because of their insolent^(BI) words.
For this they will be ridiculed^(BJ)
    in the land of Egypt.^(BK)

Notas al pie

Hosea 6:5 The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.
Hosea 6:7 Or Like Adam; or Like human beings
Hosea 7:14 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts They gather together

Romans 7:7-25

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The Law and Sin

⁷What shall we say, then?^(A) Is the law sinful? Certainly not!^(B) Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law.^(C) For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”^[a]^(D) ⁸But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment,^(E) produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.^(F) ⁹Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. ¹⁰I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life^(G) actually brought death. ¹¹For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment,^(H) deceived me,^(I) and through the commandment put me to death. ¹²So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.^(J)

¹³Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good^(K) to bring about my death,^(L) so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

¹⁴We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual,^(M) sold^(N) as a slave to sin.^(O) ¹⁵I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.^(P) ¹⁶And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.^(Q) ¹⁷As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.^(R) ¹⁸For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.^[b]^(S) For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. ¹⁹For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.^(T) ²⁰Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.^(U)

²¹So I find this law at work:^(V) Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. ²²For in my inner being^(W) I delight in God’s law;^(X) ²³but I see another law at work in me, waging war^(Y) against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin^(Z) at work within me. ²⁴What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?^(AA) ²⁵Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!^(AB)

So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law,^(AC) but in my sinful nature^[c] a slave to the law of sin.^(AD)

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Notas al pie

Romans 7:7 Exodus 20:17; Deut. 5:21
Romans 7:18 Or my flesh
Romans 7:25 Or in the flesh

Psalm 88:9-18

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⁹ my eyes^(A) are dim with grief.

I call^(B) to you, Lord, every day;
    I spread out my hands^(C) to you.
¹⁰Do you show your wonders to the dead?
    Do their spirits rise up and praise you?^(D)
¹¹Is your love declared in the grave,
    your faithfulness^(E) in Destruction^[a]?
¹²Are your wonders known in the place of darkness,
    or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?

¹³But I cry to you for help,^(F) Lord;
in the morning^(G) my prayer comes before you.^(H)
¹⁴Why, Lord, do you reject^(I) me
and hide your face^(J) from me?

¹⁵From my youth^(K) I have suffered^(L) and been close to death;
    I have borne your terrors^(M) and am in despair.^(N)
¹⁶Your wrath^(O) has swept over me;
    your terrors^(P) have destroyed me.
¹⁷All day long they surround me like a flood;^(Q)
    they have completely engulfed me.
¹⁸You have taken from me friend^(R) and neighbor—
    darkness is my closest friend.