Daniel 12 - Hosea 2

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The Time of the End

12 “At that time shall arise ^(A)Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And ^(B)there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, ^(C)everyone whose name shall be found written in the book. ²And many of those who ^(D)sleep in ^(E)the dust of the earth shall ^(F)awake, ^(G)some to everlasting life, and ^(H)some to shame and everlasting contempt. ³^(I)And those who are wise ^(J)shall shine like the brightness of the sky above;^[a] and ^(K)those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever. ⁴But you, Daniel, ^(L)shut up the words and ^(M)seal the book, until ^(N)the time of the end. ^(O)Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”

⁵Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others stood, one on ^(P)this bank of the stream and one on that bank of the stream. ⁶And someone said to ^(Q)the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream,^[b] ^(R)“How long shall it be till the end of these wonders?” ⁷And I heard ^(S)the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream; ^(T)he raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven and ^(U)swore by him who lives forever that it would be for a ^(V)time, times, and half a time, and that when the shattering of ^(W)the power of ^(X)the holy people comes to an end all these things would be finished. ⁸I heard, ^(Y)but I did not understand. Then I said, “O my lord, what shall be the outcome of these things?” ⁹He said, ^(Z)“Go your way, Daniel, ^(AA)for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end. ¹⁰^(AB)Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but ^(AC)the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, ^(AD)but those who are wise shall understand. ¹¹And from the time that ^(AE)the regular burnt offering is taken away and ^(AF)the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be 1,290 days. ¹²^(AG)Blessed is he who waits and arrives at the 1,335 days. ¹³^(AH)But go your way till the end. ^(AI)And you shall rest and shall stand in your allotted place at ^(AJ)the end of the days.”

1 The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, ^(AK)in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of ^(AL)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, ^(AM)“Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have ^(AN)children of whoredom, for ^(AO)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 ^(AP)I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and ^(AQ)I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel. ⁵And on that day ^(AR)I will break the bow of Israel ^(AS)in the Valley of Jezreel.”

⁶She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, ^(AT)“Call her name No Mercy,^[c] for ^(AU)I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all. ⁷But ^(AV)I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord their God. I ^(AW)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, ^(AX)“Call his name Not My People,^[d] for ^(AY)you are not my people, and I am not your God.”^[e]

¹⁰^[f] Yet ^(AZ)the number of the children of Israel shall be ^(BA)like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. ^(BB)And ^(BC)in the place where it was said to them, ^(BD)“You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, ^(BE)“Children^[g] of ^(BF)the living God.” ¹¹And ^(BG)the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and ^(BH)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 ^[h] Say to your brothers, ^(BI)“You are my people,”^[i] and to your sisters, ^(BJ)“You have received mercy.”^[j]

²“Plead with your mother, plead—
    for ^(BK)she is not my wife,
    and I am not her husband—
that she put away ^(BL)her whoring from her face,
    and her adultery from between her breasts;
³lest ^(BM)I strip her naked
    and make her as ^(BN)in the day she was born,
and ^(BO)make her like a wilderness,
    and make her like a parched land,
    and kill her with thirst.
⁴^(BP)Upon her children also I will have no mercy,
    ^(BQ)because they are children of whoredom.
⁵For ^(BR)their mother has played the whore;
    she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For ^(BS)she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
    who ^(BT)give me my bread and my water,
    my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
⁶Therefore ^(BU)I will hedge up her^[k] way with thorns,
    and ^(BV)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.
^(BW)Then she shall say,
    ‘I will go and return to ^(BX)my first husband,
    ^(BY)for it was better for me then than now.’
⁸And ^(BZ)she did not know
    that it was ^(CA)I who gave her
    ^(CB)the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and who lavished on ^(CC)her silver and gold,
    ^(CD)which they used for Baal.
⁹Therefore ^(CE)I will take back
    my grain in its time,
    and my wine in its season,
and ^(CF)I will take away my wool and my flax,
    which were to cover her nakedness.
¹⁰Now ^(CG)I will uncover her lewdness
    in the sight of her lovers,
    and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.
¹¹^(CH)And I will put an end to all her mirth,
    her feasts, her ^(CI)new moons, her ^(CJ)Sabbaths,
    and all her ^(CK)appointed feasts.
¹²And ^(CL)I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
    ^(CM)of which she said,
‘These are ^(CN)my wages,
    which my lovers have given me.’
I will make them a forest,
    ^(CO)and the beasts of the field shall devour them.
¹³And ^(CP)I will punish her for ^(CQ)the feast days of the Baals
    when she burned offerings to them
and ^(CR)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 ^(CS)bring her into the wilderness,
    and ^(CT)speak tenderly to her.
¹⁵And there I will give her her vineyards
    and make the Valley of Achor^[l] a door of hope.
And there she shall answer ^(CU)as in the days of her youth,
    as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁶“And ^(CV)in that day, declares the Lord, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’ ¹⁷For ^(CW)I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more. ¹⁸And ^(CX)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 ^(CY)I will abolish^[m] the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in ^(CZ)safety. ¹⁹And I will betroth you to me ^(DA)forever. ^(DB)I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. ²⁰^(DC)I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And ^(DD)you shall know the Lord.

²¹“And ^(DE)in that day ^(DF)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 ^(DG)Jezreel,^[n]
²³    and ^(DH)I will sow her for myself in the land.
And ^(DI)I ^(DJ)will have mercy on No Mercy,^[o]
    and ^(DK)I will say to Not My People,^[p] ^(DL)‘You are my people’;
    and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’”