Daniel 9 - Hosea 10

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Daniel's Prayer for His People

9 ^(A)In the first year of ^(B)Darius the son of Ahasuerus, by descent a ^(C)Mede, who was made king over the realm of the ^(D)Chaldeans— ²in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to ^(E)the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.

³Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by ^(F)prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. ⁴I prayed to the Lord my God and ^(G)made confession, saying, ^(H)“O Lord, the ^(I)great and awesome God, who ^(J)keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, ⁵^(K)we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly ^(L)and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules. ⁶^(M)We have not listened to ^(N)your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to ^(O)our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. ⁷To you, ^(P)O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, ^(Q)those who are near and ^(R)those who are far away, in ^(S)all the lands to which you have driven them, because of ^(T)the treachery that they have committed against you. ⁸To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because ^(U)we have sinned against you. ⁹^(V)To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him ¹⁰^(W)and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by ^(X)his servants the prophets. ¹¹^(Y)All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, ^(Z)refusing to obey your voice. ^(AA)And the curse and oath ^(AB)that are written in the Law of ^(AC)Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because ^(AD)we have sinned against him. ¹²He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against ^(AE)our rulers who ruled us,^[a] by ^(AF)bringing upon us a great calamity. ^(AG)For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem. ¹³^(AH)As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the Lord our God, ^(AI)turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth. ¹⁴^(AJ)Therefore the Lord has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, ^(AK)for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and ^(AL)we have not obeyed his voice. ¹⁵And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt ^(AM)with a mighty hand, and ^(AN)have made a name for yourself, as at this day, ^(AO)we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

¹⁶“O Lord, ^(AP)according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, ^(AQ)your holy hill, ^(AR)because for our sins, and for ^(AS)the iniquities of our fathers, ^(AT)Jerusalem and your people have become ^(AU)a byword among all who are around us. ¹⁷Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord,^[b] ^(AV)make your face to shine upon ^(AW)your sanctuary, which is desolate. ¹⁸^(AX)O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see ^(AY)our desolations, and ^(AZ)the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy. ¹⁹O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. ^(BA)Delay not, ^(BB)for your own sake, O my God, because ^(BC)your city and ^(BD)your people are called by your name.”

Gabriel Brings an Answer

²⁰^(BE)While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea before the Lord my God for ^(BF)the holy hill of my God, ²¹while I was speaking in prayer, the man ^(BG)Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the first, ^(BH)came to me in swift flight at ^(BI)the time of the evening sacrifice. ²²^(BJ)He made me understand, speaking with me and saying, “O Daniel, I have now come out to give you ^(BK)insight and understanding. ²³^(BL)At the beginning of your pleas for mercy a word went out, ^(BM)and I have come to tell it to you, for ^(BN)you are greatly loved. Therefore consider the word ^(BO)and understand the vision.

The Seventy Weeks

²⁴^(BP)“Seventy weeks^[c] are decreed about your people and ^(BQ)your holy city, to finish ^(BR)the transgression, to put an end to sin, ^(BS)and to atone for iniquity, ^(BT)to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and ^(BU)to anoint a most holy place.^[d] ²⁵^(BV)Know therefore and understand that ^(BW)from the going out of the word to restore and ^(BX)build Jerusalem to the coming of an ^(BY)anointed one, a ^(BZ)prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again^[e] with squares and moat, ^(CA)but in a troubled time. ²⁶And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall ^(CB)be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come ^(CC)shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. ^(CD)Its^[f] end shall come with a flood, ^(CE)and to the end there shall be war. ^(CF)Desolations are decreed. ²⁷And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week,^[g] and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. ^(CG)And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until ^(CH)the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”

Daniel's Terrifying Vision of a Man

10 ^(CI)In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a word was revealed to Daniel, ^(CJ)who was named Belteshazzar. And ^(CK)the word was true, and it was a great conflict.^[h] And ^(CL)he understood the word and ^(CM)had understanding of the vision.

²In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for ^(CN)three weeks. ³I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I ^(CO)anoint myself at all, for ^(CP)the full three weeks. ⁴On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing ^(CQ)on the bank of the great river (^(CR)that is, the Tigris) ⁵^(CS)I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, ^(CT)a man clothed in linen, ^(CU)with a belt of fine ^(CV)gold from Uphaz around his waist. ⁶His body was like ^(CW)beryl, his face ^(CX)like the appearance of lightning, ^(CY)his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and ^(CZ)legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and ^(DA)the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude. ⁷^(DB)And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see the vision, but a great trembling fell upon them, and they fled to hide themselves. ⁸So I was left alone and saw this great vision, and ^(DC)no strength was left in me. My radiant appearance was fearfully changed,^[i] ^(DD)and I retained no strength. ⁹Then I heard the sound of his words, ^(DE)and as I heard the sound of his words, I fell on my face in deep sleep ^(DF)with my face to the ground.

¹⁰And behold, ^(DG)a hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees. ¹¹And he said to me, “O Daniel, ^(DH)man greatly loved, ^(DI)understand the words that I speak to you, and ^(DJ)stand upright, for ^(DK)now I have been sent to you.” And when he had spoken this word to me, I stood up trembling. ¹²Then he said to me, ^(DL)“Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you ^(DM)set your heart to understand and ^(DN)humbled yourself before your God, ^(DO)your words have been heard, ^(DP)and I have come because of your words. ¹³^(DQ)The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me ^(DR)twenty-one days, but ^(DS)Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I was left there with the kings of Persia, ¹⁴^(DT)and came to make you understand what is to happen to your people ^(DU)in the latter days. For ^(DV)the vision is for days yet to come.”

¹⁵When he had spoken to me according to these words, ^(DW)I turned my face toward the ground ^(DX)and was mute. ¹⁶And behold, ^(DY)one in the likeness of the children of man ^(DZ)touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth and spoke. I said to him who stood before me, “O my lord, by reason of the vision pains have come upon me, and ^(EA)I retain no strength. ¹⁷How can my lord's servant talk with my lord? For now no strength remains in me, and no breath is left in me.”

¹⁸Again ^(EB)one having the appearance of a man ^(EC)touched me and strengthened me. ¹⁹And he said, ^(ED)“O man greatly loved, ^(EE)fear not, peace be with you; be strong and of good courage.” And as he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, “Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me.” ²⁰Then he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? But now I will return to fight against the ^(EF)prince of Persia; and when I go out, behold, the prince of ^(EG)Greece will come. ²¹But I will tell you ^(EH)what is inscribed in the book of truth: there is none who contends by my side against these except ^(EI)Michael, your prince.

The Kings of the South and the North

11 “And as for me, ^(EJ)in the first year of ^(EK)Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him.

²“And now I will show you ^(EL)the truth. Behold, three more kings shall arise in Persia, and a fourth shall be far richer than all of them. And when he has become strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom of Greece. ³Then ^(EM)a mighty king shall arise, who shall rule with great dominion and ^(EN)do as he wills. ⁴And as soon as he has arisen, ^(EO)his kingdom shall be broken and divided ^(EP)toward the ^(EQ)four winds of heaven, but ^(ER)not to his posterity, nor according to the authority with which he ruled, for his kingdom shall be plucked up and go to others besides these.

⁵“Then the king of the south shall be strong, but one of his princes shall be stronger than he ^(ES)and shall rule, and his authority shall be a great authority. ⁶After some years ^(ET)they shall make an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement. But she shall not retain the strength of her arm, and he and his arm shall not endure, but she shall be given up, and her attendants, he who fathered her, and he who supported^[j] her in those times.

⁷“And from a branch from her roots one shall arise in his place. He shall come against the army and enter the ^(EU)fortress of the king of the north, and he shall deal with them and shall prevail. ⁸He shall also carry off to Egypt their gods with their metal images and their precious ^(EV)vessels of silver and gold, and for some years he shall refrain from attacking the king of the north. ⁹Then the latter shall come into the realm of the king of the south but shall return to his own land.

¹⁰“His sons shall wage war and assemble a multitude of great forces, which shall keep coming ^(EW)and overflow and pass through, and again shall carry the war as far as his ^(EX)fortress. ¹¹Then the king of the south, ^(EY)moved with rage, shall come out and fight against the king of the north. ^(EZ)And he shall raise a great multitude, but it shall be given into his hand. ¹²And when the multitude is taken away, his heart shall be exalted, and he shall cast down tens of thousands, but he shall not prevail. ¹³For the king of the north shall again ^(FA)raise a multitude, greater than the first. And ^(FB)after some years^[k] he shall come on with a great army and abundant supplies.

¹⁴“In those times many shall rise against the king of the south, and the violent among your own people shall lift themselves up in order to fulfill the vision, but ^(FC)they shall fail. ¹⁵Then the king of the north shall come and ^(FD)throw up siegeworks and take a well-fortified city. And the forces of the south shall not stand, or even his best troops, for there shall be no strength to stand. ¹⁶But he who comes against him shall ^(FE)do as he wills, and ^(FF)none shall stand before him. And he shall stand in ^(FG)the glorious land, with destruction in his hand. ¹⁷He shall ^(FH)set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and he shall bring terms of an agreement and perform them. He shall give him the daughter of women to destroy the kingdom,^[l] but it shall not stand or be to his advantage. ¹⁸Afterward he shall turn his face to the coastlands and shall capture many of them, but a commander shall put an end to his insolence. Indeed,^[m] he ^(FI)shall turn his insolence back upon him. ¹⁹Then he shall turn his face back toward the ^(FJ)fortresses of his own land, but he shall ^(FK)stumble and fall, ^(FL)and shall not be found.

²⁰“Then shall arise in his place one who shall send an ^(FM)exactor of tribute for the glory of the kingdom. But within a few days he shall be broken, neither in anger nor in battle. ²¹In his place shall arise a contemptible person to whom royal majesty has not been given. ^(FN)He shall come in without warning and obtain the kingdom ^(FO)by flatteries. ²²Armies shall be ^(FP)utterly swept away before him and broken, even the prince of the covenant. ²³And from the time that an alliance is made with him he shall act deceitfully, and he shall become strong with a small people. ²⁴^(FQ)Without warning he shall come into ^(FR)the richest parts^[n] of the province, and he shall do what neither his fathers nor his fathers' fathers have done, scattering among them plunder, spoil, and goods. He shall devise plans against strongholds, but only for a time. ²⁵And he shall stir up his power and his heart against ^(FS)the king of the south with a great army. And the king of the south shall wage war with an exceedingly great and mighty army, but he shall not stand, for plots shall be devised against him. ²⁶Even those who eat his food shall break him. His army shall be ^(FT)swept away, and many shall fall down slain. ²⁷And as for the two kings, their hearts shall be bent on doing evil. They shall speak lies at the same table, but to no avail, for ^(FU)the end is yet to be at the time appointed. ²⁸And he shall return to his land with great wealth, but his heart shall be set against the holy covenant. And he shall work his will and return to his own land.

²⁹“At the time appointed he shall return and come into the south, but it shall not be this time as it was before. ³⁰For ships of ^(FV)Kittim shall come against him, and he shall be afraid and withdraw, and shall turn back and ^(FW)be enraged and ^(FX)take action against the holy covenant. He shall turn back and pay attention to those who forsake the holy covenant. ³¹Forces from him shall appear and ^(FY)profane the temple and fortress, and shall take away the regular burnt offering. And ^(FZ)they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate. ³²He shall seduce with flattery those who violate the covenant, but the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action. ³³^(GA)And the wise among the people shall make many understand, though for some days they shall stumble by sword and flame, by captivity and plunder. ³⁴When they stumble, they shall receive a little help. And many shall join themselves to them with flattery, ³⁵and some of the wise shall stumble, so that they may be refined, ^(GB)purified, and ^(GC)made white, until ^(GD)the time of the end, ^(GE)for it still awaits the appointed time.

³⁶“And the king shall ^(GF)do as he wills. ^(GG)He shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, ^(GH)and shall speak astonishing things against ^(GI)the God of gods. ^(GJ)He shall prosper ^(GK)till the indignation is accomplished; for what is decreed shall be done. ³⁷He shall pay no attention to the gods of his fathers, or to the one beloved by women. He shall not pay attention to any other god, for ^(GL)he shall magnify himself above all. ³⁸He shall honor the god of fortresses instead of these. A god whom his fathers did not know he shall honor ^(GM)with gold and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts. ³⁹He shall deal with the strongest fortresses with the help of a foreign god. Those who acknowledge him he shall load with honor. He shall make them rulers over many and ^(GN)shall divide the land for a price.^[o]

⁴⁰^(GO)“At the time of the end, the king of the south shall attack^[p] him, but the king of the north shall rush upon him ^(GP)like a whirlwind, with chariots and horsemen, and with many ships. And he shall come into countries and ^(GQ)shall overflow and pass through. ⁴¹He shall come into ^(GR)the glorious land. And tens of thousands shall fall, but these shall be delivered out of his hand: ^(GS)Edom and ^(GT)Moab and the main part of the ^(GU)Ammonites. ⁴²He shall stretch out his hand against the countries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape. ⁴³He shall become ruler of the treasures of gold and of silver, and all the precious things of Egypt, and the ^(GV)Libyans and the ^(GW)Cushites shall follow in his train. ⁴⁴But news from the east and the north shall alarm him, and he shall go out with great fury to destroy and devote many to destruction. ⁴⁵And he shall pitch his palatial tents between the sea and the glorious holy mountain. Yet he shall come to his end, with none to help him.

The Time of the End

12 “At that time shall arise ^(GX)Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And ^(GY)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, ^(GZ)everyone whose name shall be found written in the book. ²And many of those who ^(HA)sleep in ^(HB)the dust of the earth shall ^(HC)awake, ^(HD)some to everlasting life, and ^(HE)some to shame and everlasting contempt. ³^(HF)And those who are wise ^(HG)shall shine like the brightness of the sky above;^[q] and ^(HH)those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever. ⁴But you, Daniel, ^(HI)shut up the words and ^(HJ)seal the book, until ^(HK)the time of the end. ^(HL)Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”

⁵Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others stood, one on ^(HM)this bank of the stream and one on that bank of the stream. ⁶And someone said to ^(HN)the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream,^[r] ^(HO)“How long shall it be till the end of these wonders?” ⁷And I heard ^(HP)the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream; ^(HQ)he raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven and ^(HR)swore by him who lives forever that it would be for a ^(HS)time, times, and half a time, and that when the shattering of ^(HT)the power of ^(HU)the holy people comes to an end all these things would be finished. ⁸I heard, ^(HV)but I did not understand. Then I said, “O my lord, what shall be the outcome of these things?” ⁹He said, ^(HW)“Go your way, Daniel, ^(HX)for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end. ¹⁰^(HY)Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but ^(HZ)the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, ^(IA)but those who are wise shall understand. ¹¹And from the time that ^(IB)the regular burnt offering is taken away and ^(IC)the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be 1,290 days. ¹²^(ID)Blessed is he who waits and arrives at the 1,335 days. ¹³^(IE)But go your way till the end. ^(IF)And you shall rest and shall stand in your allotted place at ^(IG)the end of the days.”

1 The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, ^(IH)in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of ^(II)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, ^(IJ)“Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have ^(IK)children of whoredom, for ^(IL)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 ^(IM)I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and ^(IN)I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel. ⁵And on that day ^(IO)I will break the bow of Israel ^(IP)in the Valley of Jezreel.”

⁶She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, ^(IQ)“Call her name No Mercy,^[s] for ^(IR)I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all. ⁷But ^(IS)I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord their God. I ^(IT)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, ^(IU)“Call his name Not My People,^[t] for ^(IV)you are not my people, and I am not your God.”^[u]

¹⁰^[v] Yet ^(IW)the number of the children of Israel shall be ^(IX)like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. ^(IY)And ^(IZ)in the place where it was said to them, ^(JA)“You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, ^(JB)“Children^[w] of ^(JC)the living God.” ¹¹And ^(JD)the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and ^(JE)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 ^[x] Say to your brothers, ^(JF)“You are my people,”^[y] and to your sisters, ^(JG)“You have received mercy.”^[z]

²“Plead with your mother, plead—
    for ^(JH)she is not my wife,
    and I am not her husband—
that she put away ^(JI)her whoring from her face,
    and her adultery from between her breasts;
³lest ^(JJ)I strip her naked
    and make her as ^(JK)in the day she was born,
and ^(JL)make her like a wilderness,
    and make her like a parched land,
    and kill her with thirst.
⁴^(JM)Upon her children also I will have no mercy,
    ^(JN)because they are children of whoredom.
⁵For ^(JO)their mother has played the whore;
    she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For ^(JP)she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
    who ^(JQ)give me my bread and my water,
    my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
⁶Therefore ^(JR)I will hedge up her^[aa] way with thorns,
    and ^(JS)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.
^(JT)Then she shall say,
    ‘I will go and return to ^(JU)my first husband,
    ^(JV)for it was better for me then than now.’
⁸And ^(JW)she did not know
    that it was ^(JX)I who gave her
    ^(JY)the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and who lavished on ^(JZ)her silver and gold,
    ^(KA)which they used for Baal.
⁹Therefore ^(KB)I will take back
    my grain in its time,
    and my wine in its season,
and ^(KC)I will take away my wool and my flax,
    which were to cover her nakedness.
¹⁰Now ^(KD)I will uncover her lewdness
    in the sight of her lovers,
    and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.
¹¹^(KE)And I will put an end to all her mirth,
    her feasts, her ^(KF)new moons, her ^(KG)Sabbaths,
    and all her ^(KH)appointed feasts.
¹²And ^(KI)I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
    ^(KJ)of which she said,
‘These are ^(KK)my wages,
    which my lovers have given me.’
I will make them a forest,
    ^(KL)and the beasts of the field shall devour them.
¹³And ^(KM)I will punish her for ^(KN)the feast days of the Baals
    when she burned offerings to them
and ^(KO)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 ^(KP)bring her into the wilderness,
    and ^(KQ)speak tenderly to her.
¹⁵And there I will give her her vineyards
    and make the Valley of Achor^[ab] a door of hope.
And there she shall answer ^(KR)as in the days of her youth,
    as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁶“And ^(KS)in that day, declares the Lord, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’ ¹⁷For ^(KT)I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more. ¹⁸And ^(KU)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 ^(KV)I will abolish^[ac] the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in ^(KW)safety. ¹⁹And I will betroth you to me ^(KX)forever. ^(KY)I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. ²⁰^(KZ)I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And ^(LA)you shall know the Lord.

²¹“And ^(LB)in that day ^(LC)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 ^(LD)Jezreel,^[ad]
²³    and ^(LE)I will sow her for myself in the land.
And ^(LF)I ^(LG)will have mercy on No Mercy,^[ae]
    and ^(LH)I will say to Not My People,^[af] ^(LI)‘You are my people’;
    and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’”

Hosea Redeems His Wife

3 And the Lord said to me, ^(LJ)“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 ^(LK)homer and a lethech^[ag] of barley. ³And I said to her, “You must ^(LL)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 ^(LM)shall dwell many days ^(LN)without king or prince, ^(LO)without sacrifice or ^(LP)pillar, without ^(LQ)ephod or ^(LR)household gods. ⁵Afterward ^(LS)the children of Israel shall return and ^(LT)seek the Lord their God, and ^(LU)David their king, ^(LV)and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the ^(LW)latter days.

The Lord Accuses Israel

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

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

⁷^(MM)The more they increased,
    the more they sinned against me;
    ^(MN)I will change their glory into shame.
⁸^(MO)They feed on the sin^[ai] of my people;
    they are greedy for their iniquity.
⁹^(MP)And it shall be like people, like priest;
    I will punish them for their ways
    and repay them for their deeds.
¹⁰^(MQ)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 ^(MR)take away the understanding.
¹²My people ^(MS)inquire of a piece of wood,
    and their walking staff gives them oracles.
For ^(MT)a spirit of whoredom has led them astray,
    and they have left their God to play the whore.
¹³^(MU)They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains
    and burn offerings on the hills,
^(MV)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 ^(MW)the men themselves go aside with prostitutes
    and sacrifice with ^(MX)cult prostitutes,
and a people ^(MY)without understanding shall come to ruin.

¹⁵Though you play the whore, O ^(MZ)Israel,
    let not ^(NA)Judah become guilty.
^(NB)Enter not into ^(NC)Gilgal,
    nor go up to ^(ND)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^(NE)Ephraim is joined to idols;
    ^(NF)leave him alone.
¹⁸When their drink is gone, they give themselves to whoring;
    ^(NG)their rulers^[aj] dearly love shame.
¹⁹^(NH)A wind has wrapped them^[ak] in its wings,
    and they shall ^(NI)be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

Punishment Coming for Israel and Judah

5 ^(NJ)Hear this, O priests!
    Pay attention, O house of Israel!
Give ear, O house of the king!
    For the judgment is for you;
for ^(NK)you have been a snare at Mizpah
    and a net spread upon ^(NL)Tabor.
²And ^(NM)the revolters ^(NN)have gone deep into slaughter,
    but ^(NO)I will discipline all of them.

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

⁵^(NS)The pride of Israel testifies to his face;^[al]
    Israel and ^(NT)Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt;
    ^(NU)Judah also shall stumble with them.
⁶^(NV)With their flocks and herds they shall go
    to seek the Lord,
^(NW)but they will not find him;
    ^(NX)he has withdrawn from them.
⁷^(NY)They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord;
    for they have borne alien children.
    Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.

⁸^(NZ)Blow the horn in ^(OA)Gibeah,
    the trumpet in ^(OB)Ramah.
Sound the alarm at ^(OC)Beth-aven;
    we follow you,^[am] 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 ^(OD)those who move the landmark;
upon them I will pour out
    my wrath like water.
¹¹Ephraim is ^(OE)oppressed, crushed in judgment,
    because he was determined to go after filth.^[an]
¹²But I am ^(OF)like a moth to Ephraim,
    and ^(OG)like dry rot to the house of Judah.

¹³When Ephraim saw his sickness,
    and Judah ^(OH)his wound,
then Ephraim went ^(OI)to Assyria,
    and sent to the great king.^[ao]
^(OJ)But he is not able to cure you
    or heal ^(OK)your wound.
¹⁴For I will be ^(OL)like a lion to ^(OM)Ephraim,
    and like a young lion to the house of ^(ON)Judah.
^(OO)I, even I, will tear and go away;
    I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.

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

Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant

6 “Come, let us ^(OR)return to the Lord;
    for ^(OS)he has torn us, that he may heal us;
    he has struck us down, and ^(OT)he will bind us up.
²After two days ^(OU)he will revive us;
    on the third day he will raise us up,
    that we may live before him.
³^(OV)Let us know; ^(OW)let us press on to know the Lord;
    ^(OX)his going out is sure as the dawn;
he will come to us ^(OY)as the showers,
    ^(OZ)as the spring rains that water the earth.”

⁴What shall I do with you, ^(PA)O ^(PB)Ephraim?
    What shall I do with you, O ^(PC)Judah?
Your love is ^(PD)like a morning cloud,
    ^(PE)like the dew that goes early away.
⁵Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets;
    I have slain them ^(PF)by the words of my mouth,
    and my judgment goes forth as the light.
⁶For ^(PG)I desire steadfast love^[ap] and not sacrifice,
    ^(PH)the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

⁷But ^(PI)like Adam they ^(PJ)transgressed the covenant;
    ^(PK)there they dealt faithlessly with me.
⁸^(PL)Gilead is a city of evildoers,
    ^(PM)tracked with blood.
⁹As robbers ^(PN)lie in wait for a man,
    so the priests band together;
they murder on the way to ^(PO)Shechem;
    they commit villainy.
¹⁰In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
    ^(PP)Ephraim's whoredom is there; ^(PQ)Israel is defiled.

¹¹For you also, O ^(PR)Judah, ^(PS)a harvest is appointed.

When ^(PT)I restore the fortunes of my people,
7 ^(PU)when I would heal Israel,
    the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed,
    and the evil deeds of ^(PV)Samaria,
for ^(PW)they deal falsely;
    the thief breaks in,
    and the bandits raid outside.
²But they do not consider
    that ^(PX)I remember all their evil.
Now ^(PY)their deeds surround them;
    ^(PZ)they are before my face.
³By their evil ^(QA)they make ^(QB)the king glad,
    and the princes by their treachery.
⁴^(QC)They are all adulterers;
    they are like a heated oven
whose baker ceases to stir the fire,
    from the kneading of the dough
    until it is leavened.
⁵On the day of ^(QD)our king, the princes
    became sick with the heat of wine;
    he stretched out his hand with mockers.
⁶For with hearts like an oven ^(QE)they approach their intrigue;
    all night their anger smolders;
    in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
⁷All of them are hot as an oven,
    and they devour their rulers.
All ^(QF)their kings ^(QG)have fallen,
    and none of them calls upon me.

⁸Ephraim ^(QH)mixes himself with the peoples;
    Ephraim is a cake not turned.
⁹^(QI)Strangers devour his strength,
    and ^(QJ)he knows it not;
gray hairs are sprinkled upon him,
    and ^(QK)he knows it not.
¹⁰^(QL)The pride of Israel testifies to his face;^[aq]
    ^(QM)yet they do not return to the Lord their God,
    nor seek him, for all this.

¹¹Ephraim is like a dove,
    ^(QN)silly and without sense,
    calling to ^(QO)Egypt, going to ^(QP)Assyria.
¹²As they go, ^(QQ)I will spread over them my net;
    I will bring them down like birds of the heavens;
    ^(QR)I will discipline them ^(QS)according to the report made to their congregation.
¹³^(QT)Woe to them, for they have strayed from me!
    Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me!
^(QU)I would redeem them,
    but ^(QV)they speak lies against me.

¹⁴^(QW)They do not cry to me from the heart,
    but ^(QX)they wail upon their beds;
for grain and wine they gash themselves;
    they rebel against me.
¹⁵Although ^(QY)I trained and strengthened their arms,
    yet they devise evil against me.
¹⁶They ^(QZ)return, but not upward;^[ar]
    they are ^(RA)like a treacherous bow;
their princes shall fall by the sword
    because of ^(RB)the insolence of their tongue.
This shall be their derision ^(RC)in the land of Egypt.

Israel Will Reap the Whirlwind

8 Set ^(RD)the trumpet to your lips!
    One ^(RE)like a vulture is over the house of the Lord,
because ^(RF)they have transgressed my covenant
    and rebelled against my law.
²To me they cry,
    ^(RG)“My God, we—Israel—know you.”
³Israel has spurned the good;
    the enemy shall pursue him.

⁴^(RH)They made kings, ^(RI)but not through me.
    They set up princes, but I knew it not.
With their silver and gold they made idols
    for their own destruction.
⁵^(RJ)I have^[as] spurned your calf, O Samaria.
    My anger burns against them.
^(RK)How long will they be incapable of innocence?
⁶For it is from Israel;
a craftsman made it;
    it is not God.
^(RL)The calf of Samaria
    ^(RM)shall be broken to pieces.^[at]

⁷For ^(RN)they sow the wind,
    and they shall reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no heads;
    it shall yield no flour;
if it were to yield,
    ^(RO)strangers would devour it.
⁸^(RP)Israel is swallowed up;
    already they are among the nations
    as ^(RQ)a useless vessel.
⁹For ^(RR)they have gone up to Assyria,
    ^(RS)a wild donkey wandering alone;
    Ephraim has hired lovers.
¹⁰Though they hire allies among the nations,
    I will soon gather them up.
And ^(RT)the king and princes ^(RU)shall soon writhe
    because of the tribute.

¹¹Because Ephraim ^(RV)has multiplied altars for sinning,
    they have become to him altars for sinning.
¹²^(RW)Were I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands,
    they would be regarded as a strange thing.
¹³As for my sacrificial offerings,
    ^(RX)they sacrifice meat and eat it,
    but the Lord does not accept them.
^(RY)Now he will remember their iniquity
    and punish their sins;
    ^(RZ)they shall return to Egypt.
¹⁴For ^(SA)Israel has forgotten ^(SB)his Maker
    and ^(SC)built palaces,
and ^(SD)Judah has multiplied fortified cities;
    so ^(SE)I will send a fire upon his cities,
    and it shall devour her strongholds.

The Lord Will Punish Israel

9 Rejoice not, O Israel!
    Exult not like the peoples;
^(SF)for you have played the whore, forsaking your God.
    ^(SG)You have loved a prostitute's wages
    on all threshing floors.
²^(SH)Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them,
    and ^(SI)the new wine shall fail them.
³They shall not remain in ^(SJ)the land of the Lord,
    but ^(SK)Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
    and ^(SL)they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

⁴^(SM)They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord,
    ^(SN)and their sacrifices shall not please him.
It shall be like ^(SO)mourners' bread to them;
    all who eat of it shall be defiled;
for their bread shall be for their hunger only;
    ^(SP)it shall not come to the house of the Lord.

⁵^(SQ)What will you do on the day of the appointed festival,
    and on the day of the feast of the Lord?
⁶For behold, they are going away from destruction;
    but ^(SR)Egypt shall gather them;
    Memphis shall bury them.
Nettles shall possess ^(SS)their precious things of silver;
    ^(ST)thorns shall be in their tents.

⁷^(SU)The days of punishment have come;
    the days of recompense have come;
    Israel shall know it.
^(SV)The prophet is a fool;
    the man of the spirit is mad,
because of your great iniquity
    and great hatred.
⁸The prophet is ^(SW)the watchman of Ephraim with my God;
yet ^(SX)a fowler's snare is on all his ways,
    and hatred in the house of his God.
⁹^(SY)They have deeply corrupted themselves
    as ^(SZ)in the days of Gibeah:
^(TA)he will remember their iniquity;
    he will punish their sins.

¹⁰Like grapes in the wilderness,
    ^(TB)I found Israel.
Like the first fruit on the fig tree
    in its first season,
    I saw your fathers.
But ^(TC)they came to Baal-peor
    and ^(TD)consecrated themselves to the thing of shame,
    and ^(TE)became detestable like the thing they loved.
¹¹Ephraim's ^(TF)glory shall fly away like a bird—
    ^(TG)no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
¹²^(TH)Even if they bring up children,
    I will bereave them till none is left.
^(TI)Woe to them
    when ^(TJ)I depart from them!
¹³Ephraim, ^(TK)as I have seen, was like a young palm^[au] planted in a meadow;
    but ^(TL)Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.^[av]
¹⁴Give them, O Lord—
    what will you give?
Give them ^(TM)a miscarrying womb
    and dry breasts.

¹⁵Every evil of theirs is in ^(TN)Gilgal;
    there I began to hate them.
Because of the wickedness of their deeds
    I will drive them out of my house.
I will love them no more;
    all ^(TO)their princes are ^(TP)rebels.

¹⁶Ephraim is stricken;
    ^(TQ)their root is dried up;
    they shall bear no fruit.
Even ^(TR)though they give birth,
    ^(TS)I will put their beloved children to death.
¹⁷^(TT)My God will reject them
    because they have not listened to him;
    ^(TU)they shall be wanderers among the nations.

10 ^(TV)Israel is a luxuriant vine
    that yields its fruit.
The more his fruit increased,
    ^(TW)the more altars he built;
as his country improved,
    he improved his pillars.
²Their heart is false;
    now they must bear their guilt.
The Lord^[aw] will break down their altars
    and destroy their pillars.

³For now they will say:
    ^(TX)“We have no king,
for we do not fear the Lord;
    and a king—what could he do for us?”
⁴They utter ^(TY)mere words;
    with empty^[ax] oaths they make covenants;
so ^(TZ)judgment springs up like poisonous weeds
    ^(UA)in the furrows of the field.
⁵The inhabitants of Samaria tremble
    for ^(UB)the calf^[ay] of ^(UC)Beth-aven.
Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests—
    those who rejoiced over it and ^(UD)over its glory—
    for it has departed^[az] from them.
⁶^(UE)The thing itself shall be carried to Assyria
    as tribute to ^(UF)the great king.^[ba]
Ephraim shall be put to shame,
    and Israel shall be ashamed ^(UG)of his idol.^[bb]

⁷^(UH)Samaria's king shall perish
    like a twig on the face of the waters.
⁸The high places of ^(UI)Aven, ^(UJ)the sin of Israel,
    shall be destroyed.
^(UK)Thorn and thistle shall grow up
    on their altars,
and ^(UL)they shall say to the mountains, “Cover us,”
    and to the hills, “Fall on us.”

⁹From ^(UM)the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, O Israel;
    there they have continued.
    Shall not the war against the unjust^[bc] overtake them in Gibeah?
¹⁰^(UN)When I please, ^(UO)I will discipline them,
    and nations shall be gathered against them
    when they are bound up for ^(UP)their double iniquity.

¹¹Ephraim was a trained calf
    that ^(UQ)loved to thresh,
    and I spared her fair neck;
but I will put ^(UR)Ephraim to the yoke;
    ^(US)Judah must plow;
    Jacob must harrow for himself.
¹²^(UT)Sow for yourselves righteousness;
    reap steadfast love;
    ^(UU)break up your fallow ground,
for it is the time to seek the Lord,
    that he may come and ^(UV)rain righteousness upon you.

¹³^(UW)You have plowed iniquity;
    you have reaped injustice;
    you have eaten the fruit of lies.
Because you have trusted in your own way
    and in the multitude of your warriors,

Notas al pie

Daniel 9:12 Or our judges who judged us
Daniel 9:17 Hebrew for the Lord's sake
Daniel 9:24 Or sevens; also twice in verse 25 and once in verse 26
Daniel 9:24 Or thing, or one
Daniel 9:25 Or there shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It shall be built again
Daniel 9:26 Or His
Daniel 9:27 Or seven; twice in this verse
Daniel 10:1 Or and it was about a great conflict
Daniel 10:8 Hebrew My splendor was changed to ruin
Daniel 11:6 Or obtained
Daniel 11:13 Hebrew at the end of the times
Daniel 11:17 Hebrew her, or it
Daniel 11:18 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Daniel 11:24 Or among the richest men
Daniel 11:39 Or land as payment
Daniel 11:40 Hebrew thrust at
Daniel 12:3 Hebrew the expanse; compare Genesis 1:6–8
Daniel 12:6 Or who was upstream; also verse 7
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
Hosea 7:10 Or in his presence
Hosea 7:16 Or to the Most High
Hosea 8:5 Hebrew He has
Hosea 8:6 Or shall go up in flames
Hosea 9:13 Or like Tyre
Hosea 9:13 Hebrew to him who slaughters
Hosea 10:2 Hebrew He
Hosea 10:4 Or vain (see Exodus 20:7)
Hosea 10:5 Or calves
Hosea 10:5 Or has gone into exile
Hosea 10:6 Or to King Jareb
Hosea 10:6 Or counsel
Hosea 10:9 Hebrew the children of injustice

Daniel 9 - Hosea 13

New American Standard Bible

Daniel’s Prayer for His People

9 In the first year of ^(A)Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of Median descent, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans— ²in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, observed in the books the number of the years which was revealed as the word of the Lord to ^(B)Jeremiah the prophet for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, ^(C)seventy years. ³So I gave my ^[a]attention to the Lord God, to seek Him by prayer and pleading, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. ⁴I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed, and said, “Oh, Lord, the ^(D)great and awesome God, who ^(E)keeps His covenant and faithfulness for those who love Him and keep His commandments, ⁵^(F)we have sinned, we have done wrong, and ^[b]acted wickedly and ^(G)rebelled, even ^(H)turning aside from Your commandments and ordinances. ⁶Moreover, we have not ^(I)listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our leaders, our fathers, and all the people of the land.

⁷“^(J)Righteousness belongs to You, Lord, but to us ^[c]^(K)open shame, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and all Israel, those who are nearby and those who are far away in ^(L)all the countries to which You have driven them, because of their unfaithful deeds which they have committed against You. ⁸^[d]Open shame belongs to us, Lord, to our kings, our leaders, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You. ⁹To the Lord our God belong ^(M)compassion and forgiveness, ^[e]because we have ^(N)rebelled against Him; ¹⁰and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His ^[f]teachings which He ^(O)set before us through His servants the prophets. ¹¹Indeed, ^(P)all Israel has violated Your Law and turned aside, not obeying Your voice; so the ^(Q)curse has gushed forth on us, along with the oath which is written in the Law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against Him. ¹²So He has ^(R)confirmed His words which He had spoken against us and against our ^[g]^(S)rulers who ruled us, to bring on us great disaster; for under the entire heaven there has ^(T)not been done anything like what was done in Jerusalem. ¹³Just as it is written in the ^(U)Law of Moses, all this disaster has come on us; yet we have ^(V)not ^[h]sought the favor of the Lord our God by ^(W)turning from our wrongdoing and ^[i]giving attention to Your truth. ¹⁴So the Lord has ^[j]^(X)kept the disaster in store and brought it on us; for the Lord our God is ^(Y)righteous with respect to all His deeds which He has done, but we have not obeyed His voice.

¹⁵“And now, Lord, our God, You who ^(Z)brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and ^(AA)made a name for Yourself, as it is this day—we have sinned, we have been wicked. ¹⁶Lord, in accordance with all Your ^[k]righteous acts, let now Your ^(AB)anger and Your wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your ^(AC)holy mountain; for because of our sins and the wrongdoings of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become an ^(AD)object of taunting to all those around us. ¹⁷So now, our God, listen to the prayer of Your servant and to his pleas, and for ^[l]Your sake, Lord, ^(AE)let Your face shine on Your ^(AF)desolate sanctuary. ¹⁸My God, ^(AG)incline Your ear and hear! Open Your eyes and ^(AH)see our desolations and the city which is ^(AI)called by Your name; for we are not ^[m]^(AJ)presenting our pleas before You based on ^[n]any merits of our own, but based on Your great compassion. ¹⁹Lord, hear! Lord, forgive! Lord, listen and take action! For Your own sake, my God, ^(AK)do not delay, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name.”

Gabriel Brings an Answer

²⁰While I was still ^(AL)speaking and praying, and ^(AM)confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and ^[o]presenting my plea before the Lord my God in behalf of the holy mountain of my God, ²¹while I was still speaking in prayer, the man ^(AN)Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision ^[p]previously, ^[q]came to me ^[r]in my extreme weariness about the time of the ^(AO)evening offering. ²²And he instructed me and talked with me and said, “Daniel, I have come now to give you insight with ^(AP)understanding. ²³At the ^(AQ)beginning of your pleas the ^[s]command was issued, and I have come to tell you, because you are ^[t]^(AR)highly esteemed; so pay attention to the message and gain ^(AS)understanding of the vision.

Seventy Weeks and the Messiah

²⁴“Seventy ^[u]^(AT)weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to ^[v]finish the wrongdoing, to ^[w]make an end of sin, to ^(AU)make atonement for guilt, to bring in ^(AV)everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and ^[x]prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. ²⁵So you are to know and understand that from the issuing of a ^[y]^(AW)decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until ^[z]^(AX)Messiah the ^(AY)Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with ^[aa]streets and moat, even in times of distress. ²⁶Then after the sixty-two weeks, the ^[ab]Messiah will be ^(AZ)cut off and have ^[ac]nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will ^(BA)destroy the city and the sanctuary. And ^[ad]its end will come with a ^(BB)flood; even to the end ^[ae]there will be war; desolations are determined. ²⁷And he will confirm a covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of ^[af]^(BC)abominations will come the one who ^[ag]makes desolate, until a ^(BD)complete destruction, one that is ^[ah]decreed, gushes forth on the one who ^[ai]makes desolate.”

Daniel Is Terrified by a Vision

10 In the third year of ^(BE)Cyrus king of Persia, a ^[aj]message was revealed to ^(BF)Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar; and the ^[ak]^(BG)message was true and it concerned great ^[al]conflict, but he understood the ^[am]message and had an ^(BH)understanding of the vision.

²In those days, I, Daniel, had been ^(BI)mourning for three ^[an]entire weeks. ³I ^(BJ)did not eat any ^[ao]tasty food, nor did meat or wine enter my mouth, nor did I use any ointment at all until the entire three weeks were completed. ⁴On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, while I was by the bank of the great ^(BK)river, that is, the ^[ap]Tigris, ⁵I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, there was a man ^(BL)dressed in linen, whose waist ^(BM)had a belt of pure ^(BN)gold of Uphaz. ⁶His body also was like topaz, his face ^[aq]had the appearance of lightning, ^(BO)his eyes were like flaming torches, his arms and feet like the gleam of polished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude. ⁷Now I, Daniel, ^(BP)alone saw the vision, while the ^(BQ)men who were with me did not see the vision; nevertheless, a great ^(BR)fear fell on them, and they ran away to hide themselves. ⁸So I was ^(BS)left alone and saw this great vision; yet ^(BT)no strength was left in me, for my complexion turned to ^[ar]a deathly pallor, and I retained no strength. ⁹But I heard the sound of his words; and as soon as I heard the sound of his words, I ^(BU)fell into a deep sleep on my face, with my face to the ground.

Daniel Comforted

¹⁰Then behold, a hand ^(BV)touched me and shook me on my ^[as]hands and knees. ¹¹And he said to me, “^(BW)Daniel, ^[at]you who are treasured, ^(BX)understand the words that I am about to tell you and ^(BY)stand at your place, for I have now been sent to you.” And when he had spoken this word to me, I stood up ^(BZ)trembling. ¹²Then he said to me, “^(CA)Do not be afraid, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart on understanding this and on ^(CB)humbling yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come ^(CC)in response to your words. ¹³But the prince of the kingdom of Persia was standing ^[au]in my way for twenty-one days; then behold, ^(CD)Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left there with the kings of Persia. ¹⁴Now I have come to ^(CE)explain to you what will happen to your people in the ^[av]^(CF)latter days, because the vision pertains to ^(CG)the days still future.”

¹⁵When he had spoken to me according to these words, I ^[aw]turned my face toward the ground and became ^(CH)speechless. ¹⁶And behold, ^[ax]^(CI)one who resembled a human was ^(CJ)touching my lips. Then I opened my mouth and spoke and said to him who was standing before me, “My lord, due to the vision ^[ay]^(CK)anguish has come upon me, and I have retained no strength. ¹⁷For ^(CL)how can such a servant of my lord talk with such as my lord? As for me, there remains just now ^(CM)no strength in me, nor has any breath been left in me.”

¹⁸Then this one with human appearance touched me again and ^(CN)strengthened me. ¹⁹And he said, “^[az]You who are treasured, ^(CO)do not be afraid. Peace be to you; take ^(CP)courage and be courageous!” Now as soon as he spoke to me, I felt strengthened and said, “May my lord speak, for you have ^(CQ)strengthened me.” ²⁰Then he said, “Do you ^[ba]understand why I came to you? But I shall now return to fight against the prince of Persia; so I am leaving, and behold, the ^(CR)prince of ^[bb]Greece is about to come. ²¹However, I will tell you what is recorded in the writing of ^(CS)truth. Yet there is no one who ^[bc]stands firmly with me against these forces except ^(CT)Michael your prince.

Conflicts to Come

11 “In the ^(CU)first year of Darius the Mede, ^[bd]I arose to be of ^[be]assistance and a protection for him. ²And now I will tell you the ^(CV)truth. Behold, three more kings are going to arise ^[bf]in Persia. Then a fourth will gain far more riches than all of them; as soon as he becomes strong through his riches, ^[bg]he will stir up the entire empire against the realm of ^[bh]^(CW)Greece. ³And a ^(CX)mighty king will arise, and he will rule with great authority and ^(CY)do as he pleases. ⁴But as soon as he has arisen, his kingdom will be broken up and parceled out ^(CZ)toward the ^(DA)four ^[bi]points of the compass, though not to his own descendants, nor according to his authority which he wielded, because his sovereignty will be ^(DB)removed and given to others besides ^[bj]them.

⁵“Then the ^(DC)king of the South will grow strong, ^[bk]along with one of his princes ^[bl]who will gain ascendancy over him and rule; his domain will be a great realm indeed. ⁶And after some years they will form an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the South will come to the ^(DD)king of the North to reach an agreement. But she will not keep her ^[bm]position of power, nor will he remain with his ^[bn]power, but she will be given up, along with those who brought her in and the one who fathered her as well as he who supported her in those times. ⁷But one of the ^[bo]descendants of her line will arise in his place, and he will come against their army and enter the ^(DE)fortress of the king of the North, and he will deal with them and prevail. ⁸And he will also take into captivity to Egypt their ^(DF)gods with their cast metal images and their precious vessels of silver and gold, and he on his part will ^[bp]refrain from attacking the king of the North for some years. ⁹Then ^[bq]the latter will enter the realm of the king of the South, but will return to his own land.

¹⁰“And his sons will mobilize and assemble a multitude of great forces; and one of them will keep on coming and ^(DG)overflow and pass through, so that he may ^[br]again wage war up to his fortress. ¹¹And the ^(DH)king of the South will be enraged and go out and fight ^[bs]with the king of the North. Then the latter will raise a great multitude, but that multitude will be handed over to ^[bt]the former. ¹²When the multitude is carried away, his heart will ^[bu]be haughty, and he will cause tens of thousands to fall; yet he will not prevail. ¹³For the king of the North will again raise a greater multitude than the former, and ^[bv]after an ^(DI)interval of some years he will ^[bw]press on with a great army and much equipment.

¹⁴“Now in those times many will rise up against the king of the South; the violent ones among your people will also raise themselves up to fulfill the vision, but they will ^[bx]fall down. ¹⁵Then the king of the North will come, pile up an ^(DJ)assault ramp, and capture a well-fortified city; and the forces of the South will not stand their ground, not even ^[by]their choicest troops, for there will be no strength to make a stand. ¹⁶But he who comes against him will ^(DK)do as he pleases, and ^(DL)no one will be able to withstand him; he will also stay for a time in the ^[bz]^(DM)Beautiful Land, with destruction in his hand. ¹⁷And he will ^(DN)set his ^[ca]mind on coming with the power of his entire kingdom, ^[cb]bringing with him ^[cc]a proposal of peace which he will put into effect; he will also give him the daughter of women to ruin it. But she will not take a stand for him or be ^[cd]on his side. ¹⁸Then he will turn his face to the ^(DO)coastlands and capture many. But a commander will put a stop to his taunting against him; moreover, he will ^(DP)repay him for his taunting. ¹⁹So he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land, but he will ^(DQ)stumble and fall and not be ^(DR)found.

²⁰“Then in his place one will arise who will ^(DS)allow an ^[ce]oppressor to pass through the ^[cf]Jewel of his kingdom; yet within a few days he will be broken, though not in anger nor in battle. ²¹And in his place a despicable person will arise, on whom the majesty of kingship has not been conferred; but he will come in a time of tranquility and ^(DT)seize the kingdom by intrigue. ²²And the overflowing ^(DU)forces will be flooded away from him and smashed, and also the prince of the covenant. ²³After an alliance is made with him he will practice deception, and he will go up and gain power with a small force of people. ²⁴^[cg]In a time of tranquility he will enter the ^(DV)richest parts of the ^[ch]realm, and he will accomplish what his fathers did not, nor his ^[ci]ancestors; he will distribute plunder, spoils, and possessions among them, and he will devise his schemes against strongholds, but only for a time. ²⁵And he will stir up his strength and ^[cj]courage against the ^(DW)king of the South with a large army; so the king of the South will mobilize an extremely large and mighty army for war; but he will not stand, because schemes will be devised against him. ²⁶Those who eat his choice food will ^[ck]destroy him, and his army will ^[cl]^(DX)overflow, but many will fall down slain. ²⁷As for both kings, their hearts will be intent on ^(DY)evil, and they will ^(DZ)speak lies to each other at the same table; but it will not succeed, because the ^(EA)end is still to come at the appointed time. ²⁸Then he will return to his land with much ^[cm]plunder; but his heart will be set against the holy covenant, and he will take action and then return to his own land.

²⁹“At the appointed time he will return and come into the South, but ^[cn]this last time it will not turn out the way it did before. ³⁰For ships of ^[co]^(EB)Kittim will come against him; therefore he will withdraw in fear and will return and curse the holy covenant and take action; so he will come back and pay attention to those who abandon the holy covenant. ³¹Forces from him will arise, ^(EC)desecrate the sanctuary fortress, and do away with the regular sacrifice. And they will set up the ^(ED)abomination ^[cp]of desolation. ³²And by ^(EE)smooth words he will ^[cq]turn to godlessness those who act wickedly toward the covenant, but the people who know their God will be ^(EF)strong and take action. ³³And ^[cr]^(EG)those who have insight among the people will give understanding to the many; yet they will ^(EH)fall by sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder for many days. ³⁴Now when they fall they will be granted a little help, and many will ^(EI)join with them in ^(EJ)hypocrisy. ³⁵And some of ^[cs]those who have insight will fall, to ^(EK)refine, ^(EL)purge, and ^[ct]^(EM)cleanse them until the ^(EN)end time; because it is still to come at the appointed time.

³⁶“Then the king will ^(EO)do as he pleases, and he will exalt himself and ^(EP)boast against every god and will ^(EQ)speak ^[cu]dreadful things against the ^(ER)God of gods; and he will be successful until the ^(ES)indignation is finished, because that which is ^(ET)determined will be done. ³⁷And he will show no regard for the ^[cv]gods of his fathers or for the ^[cw]desire of women, nor will he show regard for any other god; for he will boast against them all. ³⁸But ^[cx]instead he will honor a god of fortresses, a god whom his fathers did not know; he will honor him with gold, silver, precious stones, and treasures. ³⁹And he will take action against the strongest of fortresses with the help of a foreign god; he will give great honor to ^[cy]those who acknowledge him and will make them rulers over the many, and will parcel out land for a price.

⁴⁰“And at the ^(EU)end time the ^(EV)king of the South will wage war with him, and the ^(EW)king of the North will ^(EX)storm against him with chariots, horsemen, and with many ships; and he will enter countries, ^(EY)overflow them, and pass through. ⁴¹He will also enter the ^[cz]^(EZ)Beautiful Land, and many countries will fall; but these will be rescued out of his hand: Edom, ^(FA)Moab, and the foremost of the sons of ^(FB)Ammon. ⁴²Then he will reach out with his hand against other countries, and the land of Egypt will not escape. ⁴³But he will ^[da]gain control over the hidden treasures of gold and silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; and ^(FC)Libyans and ^(FD)Ethiopians will follow at his ^[db]heels. ⁴⁴But rumors from the East and from the North will terrify him, and he will go out with great wrath to eliminate and ^[dc]annihilate many. ⁴⁵And he will pitch the tents of his royal pavilion between the seas and the beautiful ^(FE)Holy Mountain; yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him.

The Time of the End

12 “Now at that time ^(FF)Michael, the great prince who stands guard over the sons of your people, will arise. And there will be a ^(FG)time of distress ^(FH)such as never occurred since there was a nation until that time; and at that time your people, everyone who is found written in the ^(FI)book, will be rescued. ²And ^(FJ)many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, ^(FK)these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting ^[dd]contempt. ³And ^[de]those who have ^(FL)insight will ^(FM)shine like the glow of the ^[df]expanse of heaven, and those who ^[dg]^(FN)lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever. ⁴But as for you, Daniel, ^(FO)keep these words secret and ^(FP)seal up the book until the ^(FQ)end of time; ^(FR)many will roam about, and knowledge will increase.”

⁵Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others were standing, one on this bank of the stream and the other on that bank of the stream. ⁶And ^(FS)someone said to the man ^(FT)dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream, “^(FU)How long will it be until the end of these wonders?” ⁷And I heard the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream, ^[dh]as he ^(FV)raised his right hand and his left toward heaven, and swore by ^(FW)Him who lives forever that it would be for a ^[di]^(FX)time, ^[dj]times, and half a ^[dk]time; and as soon as ^[dl]they finish ^(FY)smashing the ^[dm]power of the holy people, all these events will be completed. ⁸But as for me, I heard but did not understand; so I said, “My lord, what will be the ^[dn]outcome of these events?” ⁹And he said, “Go your way, Daniel, for these words will be kept secret and ^(FZ)sealed up until the end time. ¹⁰^(GA)Many will be purged, ^[do]cleansed, and refined, but the ^(GB)wicked will act wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but ^[dp]those who ^(GC)have insight will understand. ¹¹And from the time that the regular sacrifice is abolished and the ^(GD)abomination ^[dq]of desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. ¹²^(GE)Blessed is the one who is patient and attains to the ^(GF)1,335 days! ¹³But as for you, go your way to the ^[dr]end; then you will ^(GG)rest and ^[ds]rise for your ^(GH)allotted portion at the end of the ^[dt]age.”

Hosea’s Wife and Children

1 The word of the Lord which came to ^(GI)Hosea the son of Beeri, during the days of ^(GJ)Uzziah, ^(GK)Jotham, ^(GL)Ahaz, and ^(GM)Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the days of ^(GN)Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

²When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “^(GO)Go, take for yourself a wife ^[du]inclined to infidelity, and children of infidelity; for ^(GP)the land commits flagrant infidelity, ^[dv]abandoning the Lord.” ³So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and ^(GQ)bore him a son. ⁴And the Lord said to him, “Name him ^(GR)Jezreel; for in just a little while ^(GS)I will ^[dw]punish the house of Jehu for the bloodshed of Jezreel, and ^(GT)I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel. ⁵On that day I will ^(GU)break the bow of Israel in the ^(GV)Valley of Jezreel.”

⁶Then she conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. And ^[dx]the Lord said to him, “Name her ^[dy]Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer ^(GW)take pity on the house of Israel, that I would ever forgive them. ⁷But I will take ^(GX)pity on the house of Judah and ^(GY)save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by ^(GZ)bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”

⁸When she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and gave birth to a son. ⁹And ^[dz]the Lord said, “Name him ^[ea]Lo-ammi, because you are not My people, and I am not ^[eb]your God.”

¹⁰^[ec]Yet the number of the sons of Israel
Will be like the ^(HA)sand of the sea,
Which cannot be measured or counted;
And ^(HB)in the place
Where it is said to them,
“You are ^(HC)not My people,”
It will be said to them,
“You are the ^(HD)sons of the living God.”
¹¹And the ^(HE)sons of Judah and the sons of Israel will be ^(HF)gathered together,
And they will appoint for themselves ^(HG)one leader,
And they will go up from the land,
For the day of Jezreel will be great.

Israel’s Unfaithfulness Condemned

2 ^[ed]Say to your brothers, “^[ee]Ammi,” and to your sisters, “^[ef]Ruhamah.”

²“Dispute with your mother, ^(HH)dispute,
Because she is ^(HI)not my wife, and I am not her husband;
But she must remove her ^(HJ)infidelity from her face
And her adultery from between her breasts,
³Otherwise, I will strip her ^(HK)naked
And expose her as on the ^(HL)day she was born.
I will also ^(HM)make her like a wilderness,
Make her like desert land,
And put her to death with ^(HN)thirst.
⁴Also, I will take no pity on her children,
Because they are ^(HO)children of infidelity.
⁵For their mother has ^(HP)committed prostitution;
She who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, ‘^(HQ)I will go after my lovers,
Who ^(HR)give me my bread and my water,
My wool and my flax, my ^(HS)oil and my drink.’
⁶Therefore, behold, I will ^(HT)obstruct ^[eg]her way with ^(HU)thorns,
And I will build ^[eh]a stone wall against her so that she cannot find her ^(HV)paths.
⁷And she will ^(HW)pursue her lovers, but she will not reach them;
And she will seek them, but will not find them.
Then she will say, ‘^(HX)I will go back to my ^(HY)first husband,
Because it was ^(HZ)better for me then than now!’

⁸“Yet she does ^(IA)not know that it was ^(IB)I myself who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil,
And lavished on her silver and gold,
Which they ^[ei]used for Baal.
⁹Therefore, I will ^[ej]^(IC)take back My grain at ^[ek]harvest time
And My new wine in its season.
I will also take away My wool and My flax
That I gave to cover her nakedness.
¹⁰So now I will ^(ID)uncover her ^[el]lewdness
Before the eyes of her lovers,
And no one will rescue her from My hand.
¹¹I will also ^(IE)put an end to all her joy,
Her ^(IF)feasts, her ^(IG)new moons, her Sabbaths,
And all her festivals.
¹²And I will ^(IH)destroy her vines and fig trees,
Of which she said, ‘They are my wages for prostitution
Which my lovers have given me.’
And I will ^(II)turn them into a forest,
And the ^(IJ)animals of the field will devour them.
¹³I will punish her for the ^(IK)days of the Baals
When she used to ^[em]^(IL)offer sacrifices to them
And ^(IM)adorn herself with her nose ring and jewelry,
And follow her lovers, so that she ^(IN)forgot Me,” declares the Lord.

Restoration of Israel

¹⁴“Therefore, behold, I am going to persuade her,
^(IO)Bring her into the wilderness,
And speak ^[en]kindly to her.
¹⁵Then I will give her her ^(IP)vineyards from there,
And ^(IQ)the ^[eo]Valley of Achor as a door of hope.
And she will ^[ep]^(IR)respond there as in the days of her youth,
As in the ^(IS)day when she went up from the land of Egypt.
¹⁶And it will come about on that day,” declares the Lord,
“That you will call Me ^[eq]^(IT)my husband
And no longer call Me my ^[er]Baal.
¹⁷For ^(IU)I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth,
So that they will no longer be ^[es]mentioned by their names.
¹⁸On that day I will also make a covenant for them
With the ^(IV)animals of the field,
The birds of the sky,
And the crawling things of the ground.
And I will ^[et]^(IW)eliminate the bow, the sword, and war from the land,
And will let them ^(IX)lie down in safety.
¹⁹I will ^(IY)betroth you to Me forever;
Yes, I will betroth you to Me in ^(IZ)righteousness and in justice,
In favor and in compassion,
²⁰And I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness.
Then you will ^(JA)know the Lord.

²¹“And it will come about on that day that ^(JB)I will respond,” declares the Lord.
“I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth,
²²And the ^(JC)earth will respond to the grain, to the new wine, and to the oil,
And they will respond to ^[eu]Jezreel.
²³I will ^(JD)sow her for Myself in the land.
^(JE)I will also have compassion on ^[ev]her who had not obtained compassion,
And ^(JF)I will say to ^[ew]those who were ^(JG)not My people,
‘You are My people!’
And ^[ex]they will say, ‘You are my God!’”

Hosea’s Redemption of Gomer

3 Then the Lord said to me, “Go again, love ^[ey]a woman who is loved by her ^[ez]husband, yet is committing adultery, ^(JH)as the Lord loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love ^[fa]raisin ^(JI)cakes.” ²So I ^(JJ)purchased her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver, and a ^[fb]homer and a ^[fc]lethech of barley. ³Then I said to her, “You shall ^(JK)live with me for many days. You shall not play the prostitute, nor shall you have another man; so I will also be toward you.” ⁴For the sons of Israel will live for many days ^(JL)without a king or leader, ^(JM)without sacrifice or ^(JN)memorial stone, and without ^(JO)ephod or ^[fd]^(JP)household idols. ⁵Afterward the sons of Israel will ^(JQ)return and seek the Lord their God and ^(JR)David their king; and ^(JS)they will come trembling to the Lord and to His goodness in the last days.

God’s Controversy with Israel

4 ^(JT)Listen to the word of the Lord, you sons of Israel,
Because the Lord has a ^(JU)case against the inhabitants of the land,
For there is ^(JV)no ^[fe]faithfulness, nor ^[ff]loyalty,
Nor ^(JW)knowledge of God in the land.
²There is ^(JX)oath-taking, ^(JY)^[fg]denial, ^(JZ)murder, ^(KA)stealing, and ^(KB)adultery.
They employ violence, so that ^(KC)bloodshed ^[fh]follows bloodshed.
³Therefore the land ^(KD)mourns,
And everyone who lives in it languishes
Along with the animals of the field and the birds of the sky,
And even the fish of the sea ^[fi]disappear.

⁴Yet let no one ^[fj]^(KE)find fault, and let no one rebuke;
For your people are like those who ^(KF)contend with a priest.
⁵So you will ^(KG)stumble by day,
And the prophet also will stumble with you by night;
And I will destroy your ^(KH)mother.
⁶^(KI)My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Since you have ^(KJ)rejected knowledge,
I also will ^(KK)reject you from being My priest.
Since you have ^(KL)forgotten the ^(KM)Law of your God,
I also will forget your children.

⁷The more they ^(KN)multiplied, the more they sinned against Me;
I will ^(KO)change their glory into shame.
⁸They ^(KP)feed on the ^[fk]sin of My people,
And ^(KQ)long for their wrongdoing.
⁹And it will be, like people, ^(KR)like priest;
So I will ^(KS)punish them for their ways
And repay them for their deeds.
¹⁰^(KT)They will eat, but not have enough;
They will ^(KU)play the prostitute, but not ^[fl]increase,
Because they ^(KV)gave up devoting themselves to the Lord.

¹¹^[fm]Infidelity, ^(KW)wine, and new wine take away the ^[fn]understanding.
¹²My people ^(KX)consult their wooden idol, and their diviner’s wand informs them;
For a spirit of infidelity has led them astray,
And they have been unfaithful, departing ^[fo]from their God.
¹³They offer sacrifices on the ^(KY)tops of the mountains
And ^[fp]^(KZ)burn incense on the hills,
^(LA)Under oak, poplar, and terebinth,
Because their shade is pleasant.
Therefore your daughters play the prostitute,
And your ^[fq]brides commit adultery.
¹⁴I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute,
Or your ^[fr]brides when they commit adultery,
Because the men themselves slip away with the prostitutes
And offer sacrifices with ^(LB)temple prostitutes;
So the people without understanding are ruined.

¹⁵Though you, Israel, play the prostitute,
Judah must not become guilty;
Also you are not to go to ^(LC)Gilgal,
Nor go up to Beth-aven
^(LD)And take the oath:
“As the Lord lives!”
¹⁶Since Israel is ^(LE)stubborn
Like a stubborn cow,
^[fs]Will the Lord now ^(LF)pasture them
Like a lamb in a large field?
¹⁷Ephraim is allied with ^(LG)idols;
^(LH)Leave him alone.
¹⁸Their liquor is gone,
They prostitute themselves continually;
^[ft]^(LI)Their ^[fu]rulers dearly love shame.
¹⁹^(LJ)The wind wraps them in its wings,
And they will be ^[fv]put to shame because of their sacrifices.

The People’s Apostasy Rebuked

5 Hear this, you priests!
Pay attention, house of Israel!
Listen, you of the house of the king!
For the judgment applies to you,
Because you have been a ^(LK)trap at Mizpah,
And a net spread out on Tabor.
²And the ^(LL)rebels have ^(LM)gone deep in ^[fw]depravity,
But I will discipline all of them.
³I ^(LN)know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me;
Because now, Ephraim, you have been unfaithful,
Israel has defiled itself.
⁴Their deeds will not allow them
To return to their God.
For a ^(LO)spirit of ^[fx]infidelity is within them,
And they ^(LP)do not know the Lord.
⁵Moreover, the ^(LQ)pride of Israel testifies against him,
And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their wrongdoing;
^(LR)Judah also has stumbled with them.
⁶They will ^(LS)go with their flocks and herds
To seek the Lord, but they will ^(LT)not find Him;
He has ^(LU)withdrawn from them.
⁷They have ^(LV)dealt treacherously with the Lord,
For they have given birth to ^[fy]^(LW)illegitimate children.
Now the ^(LX)new moon will devour them with their ^[fz]land.

⁸^(LY)Blow the horn in ^(LZ)Gibeah,
And the trumpet in Ramah.
Sound an alarm at Beth-aven:
“^(MA)Behind you, Benjamin!”
⁹Ephraim will become a ^(MB)desolation in the ^(MC)day of rebuke;
Among the tribes of Israel I ^(MD)make known what is trustworthy.
¹⁰The leaders of Judah have become like those who ^(ME)displace a boundary marker;
On them I will ^(MF)pour out My anger ^(MG)like water.
¹¹Ephraim is ^(MH)oppressed, broken by judgment,
^(MI)Because he was determined to follow ^[ga]man’s command.
¹²Therefore I am like a ^(MJ)moth to Ephraim,
And like rottenness to the house of Judah.
¹³When Ephraim saw his sickness,
And Judah his ^[gb]sore,
Ephraim then went to ^(MK)Assyria
And sent word to ^[gc]^(ML)King Jareb.
But he is ^(MM)unable to heal you,
Or to cure you of your ^[gd]sore.
¹⁴For I will be ^(MN)like a lion to Ephraim
And like a young lion to the house of Judah.
^(MO)I, yes I, will tear to pieces and go away,
I will carry away, and there will be ^(MP)no one to rescue.
¹⁵I will go away and return to My place
Until they ^[ge]^(MQ)acknowledge their guilt and seek My face;
In their distress they will ^(MR)search for Me.

The Response to God’s Rebuke

6 “^(MS)Come, let’s return to the Lord.
For ^(MT)He has torn us, but ^(MU)He will heal us;
He has ^[gf]wounded us, but He will ^(MV)bandage us.
²He will ^(MW)revive us after two days;
He will ^(MX)raise us up on the third day,
That we may live before Him.
³So let’s ^(MY)learn, let’s press on to know the Lord.
His ^(MZ)appearance is as sure as the dawn;
And He will come to us like the ^(NA)rain,
As the spring rain waters the earth.”

⁴What shall I do with you, ^(NB)Ephraim?
What shall I do with you, Judah?
For your loyalty is like a ^(NC)morning cloud,
And like the dew which goes away early.
⁵Therefore I have ^(ND)cut them in pieces by the prophets;
I have slain them by the ^(NE)words of My mouth;
And the judgments on you are like the light that ^[gg]shines.
⁶For ^(NF)I ^[gh]desire loyalty ^(NG)rather than sacrifice,
And the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
⁷But ^(NH)like ^[gi]Adam they have ^(NI)violated the covenant;
There they have ^(NJ)dealt treacherously with Me.
⁸^(NK)Gilead is a city of wrongdoers,
Tracked with ^(NL)bloody footprints.
⁹And as a ^(NM)band of robbers lie in wait for a person,
So a band of priests ^(NN)murder on the way to Shechem;
Certainly they have committed an act of ^(NO)infamy.
¹⁰In the house of Israel I have seen a ^(NP)horrible thing;
Ephraim’s ^(NQ)infidelity is there, Israel has defiled itself.
¹¹Also, Judah, there is a ^(NR)harvest appointed for you,
When I ^(NS)restore the fortunes of My people.

Ephraim’s Wrongdoing

7 When I ^(NT)would heal Israel,
The wrongdoing of Ephraim is uncovered,
And the evil deeds of Samaria,
For they practice ^(NU)deception;
The thief enters,
A band of ^(NV)robbers attack outside,
²And they do not ^[gj]consider in their hearts
That I ^(NW)remember all their wickedness.
Now their ^(NX)deeds surround them;
They are before My face.
³^(NY)With their wickedness they make the ^(NZ)king happy,
And the officials with their ^(OA)lies.
⁴They are ^(OB)all adulterers,
Like an oven heated by the baker,
Who stops ^[gk]stoking the fire
From the time the dough is kneaded until it is leavened.
⁵On the ^[gl]day of our king, the officials ^(OC)became sick with the heat of wine;
He stretched out his hand with ^[gm]^(OD)scoffers,
⁶For their hearts are like an ^(OE)oven
As they approach their ^[gn]plotting;
Their ^[go]anger ^[gp]smolders all night,
In the morning it burns like flaming fire.
⁷All of them are hot like an oven,
And they consume their ^(OF)rulers;
All their kings have fallen.
^(OG)None of them calls on Me.

⁸Ephraim is himself ^(OH)thrown about with the ^[gq]nations;
Ephraim has become a round loaf not turned over.
⁹^(OI)Strangers devour his strength,
Yet he ^(OJ)does not know it;
Gray hairs also are sprinkled on him,
Yet he does not know it.
¹⁰Though the ^(OK)pride of Israel testifies against him,
Yet ^(OL)they have not returned to the Lord their God,
Nor have they sought Him, despite all this.
¹¹So ^(OM)Ephraim has become like a gullible dove, ^(ON)without ^[gr]sense;
They call to ^(OO)Egypt, they go to ^(OP)Assyria.
¹²When they go, I will ^(OQ)spread My net over them;
I will bring them down like the birds of the sky.
I will ^(OR)discipline them in accordance with the ^[gs]proclamation to their assembly.
¹³^(OS)Woe to them, for they have ^(OT)strayed from Me!
Destruction is theirs, for they have rebelled against Me!
I ^(OU)would redeem them, but they have spoken lies against Me.
¹⁴And ^(OV)they do not cry to Me from their heart
When they wail on their beds;
For the sake of grain and new wine they ^[gt]^(OW)assemble themselves,
They ^(OX)turn against Me.
¹⁵Although I trained and strengthened their arms,
Yet they ^(OY)devise evil against Me.
¹⁶They turn, but not ^[gu]upward,
They are like a ^(OZ)loose bow;
Their officials will fall by the sword
Because of the ^[gv]^(PA)insolence of their tongue.
This will be their ^(PB)derision in the land of Egypt.

Israel Reaps the Whirlwind

8 ^(PC)Put the trumpet to your ^[gw]lips!
^(PD)Like an eagle the enemy comes ^(PE)against the house of the Lord,
Because they have ^(PF)violated My covenant
And rebelled against My ^(PG)Law.
²^(PH)They cry out to Me,
“My God, ^(PI)we of Israel know You!”
³Israel has rejected the good;
The enemy will pursue him.
⁴^(PJ)They have set up kings, but not by Me;
They have appointed officials, but I did not know it.
With their ^(PK)silver and gold they have made idols for themselves,
So that ^[gx]they will be eliminated.
⁵^[gy]He has rejected your ^(PL)calf, Samaria, saying,
“My anger burns against them!”
How long will they be incapable of ^(PM)innocence?
⁶For from Israel comes even this!
A ^(PN)craftsman made it, so it is not God;
Assuredly, the calf of Samaria will be broken to ^[gz]pieces.
⁷For ^(PO)they sow wind
And they harvest a ^(PP)storm.
The standing grain has no ^[ha]kernels;
It yields ^(PQ)no ^[hb]grain.
If it were to yield, strangers would swallow it.

⁸Israel has been ^(PR)swallowed up;
They are now among the nations
Like a ^(PS)vessel in which no one delights.
⁹For they have gone up to ^(PT)Assyria,
Like ^(PU)a wild donkey all alone;
Ephraim has ^(PV)paid fees for ^[hc]lovers.
¹⁰Even though they ^[hd]pay for allies among the nations,
I will ^(PW)gather them up now;
And they will begin ^(PX)to diminish
Because of the burden of the ^(PY)king of officials.

¹¹Since Ephraim has ^(PZ)multiplied altars for sin,
They have become altars of sinning for him.
¹²Though ^(QA)I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My ^(QB)Law,
They are regarded as a strange thing.
¹³As for My ^(QC)sacrificial gifts,
They ^(QD)sacrifice the flesh and eat it,
But the Lord has taken no delight in them.
Now He will ^(QE)remember their guilt,
And ^(QF)punish them for their sins;
They will return to ^(QG)Egypt.
¹⁴For Israel has ^(QH)forgotten his Maker and ^(QI)built palaces;
And Judah has multiplied fortified cities,
But I will send a ^(QJ)fire on its cities, and it will consume its palatial buildings.

Ephraim Punished

9 ^(QK)Do not rejoice, Israel, ^[he]with jubilation like the ^[hf]nations!
For you have ^(QL)been unfaithful, ^[hg]abandoning your God.
You have loved the earnings of unfaithfulness on ^[hh]every threshing floor.
²Threshing floor and wine press will ^(QM)not feed them,
And the new wine will fail ^[hi]them.
³They will not remain in ^(QN)the Lord’s land,
But Ephraim will return to ^(QO)Egypt,
And in ^(QP)Assyria they will eat ^(QQ)unclean food.
⁴They will not pour out drink offerings of ^(QR)wine to the Lord,
^(QS)Nor will ^[hj]their sacrifices please Him.
Their bread will be to them like ^[hk]mourners’ bread;
All who eat it will be ^(QT)defiled,
Because their bread will be for ^[hl]themselves alone;
It will not enter the house of the Lord.
⁵^(QU)What will you do on the day of the appointed festival
And on the day of the ^(QV)feast of the Lord?
⁶For behold, they will be gone because of destruction;
Egypt will gather them together, ^(QW)Memphis will bury them.
Weeds will take possession of their treasures of silver;
^(QX)Thorns will be in their tents.

⁷The days of ^(QY)punishment have come,
The days of ^(QZ)retribution have come;
^[hm]Let Israel know this!
The prophet is a ^(RA)fool,
The ^[hn]inspired person is ^(RB)insane,
Because of the grossness of your ^(RC)wrongdoing,
And because your ^[ho]hostility is so great.
⁸Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet;
Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways,
And there is only ^[hp]hostility in the house of his God.
⁹They are ^(RD)deeply depraved
As in the days of ^(RE)Gibeah;
He will ^(RF)remember their guilt,
He will punish their sins.

¹⁰I found Israel like ^(RG)grapes in the wilderness;
I saw your forefathers as the ^(RH)earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season.
But they came to ^(RI)Baal-peor and devoted themselves to ^[hq]^(RJ)shame,
And they became as ^(RK)detestable as that which they loved.
¹¹As for Ephraim, their ^(RL)glory will fly away like a bird—
No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!
¹²Though they bring up their children,
Yet I will bereave them of their children ^[hr]until not a person is left.
Yes, ^(RM)woe to them indeed when I depart from them!
¹³Ephraim, as I have seen,
Is planted in a pasture like ^(RN)Tyre;
But Ephraim is going to bring out his children for slaughter.
¹⁴Give to them, Lord—what will You give?
Give them a ^(RO)miscarrying womb and dried-up breasts.

¹⁵All their evil is at ^(RP)Gilgal;
Indeed, I came to hate them there!
Because of the ^(RQ)wickedness of their deeds
I will drive them out of My house!
I will no longer love them;
All their leaders are ^(RR)rebels.
¹⁶^(RS)Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up,
They will produce ^(RT)no fruit.
Even though they give birth to children,
I will put to death the ^(RU)precious ones of their womb.
¹⁷My God will reject them
Because they have ^(RV)not listened to Him;
And they will be ^(RW)wanderers among the nations.

Retribution for Israel’s Sin

10 Israel is a luxuriant ^(RX)vine;
He produces fruit for himself.
The more his fruit,
The more altars he ^(RY)made;
The ^[hs]richer his land,
The better ^[ht]he made the ^(RZ)memorial stones.
²Their heart is ^[hu]^(SA)deceitful;
Now they must suffer for their ^(SB)guilt.
^[hv]The Lord will ^(SC)break down their altars
And destroy their memorial stones.

³Certainly now they will say, “We have ^(SD)no king,
For we do not revere the Lord.
As for the king, what can he do for us?”
⁴They speak mere words,
^[hw]With ^(SE)worthless oaths they make covenants;
And ^(SF)judgment sprouts like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
⁵The inhabitants of Samaria will fear
For the ^[hx]^(SG)calf of ^(SH)Beth-aven.
Indeed, its people will mourn for it,
And its ^(SI)idolatrous priests ^[hy]will cry out over it,
Over its ^(SJ)glory, since it has left it.
⁶The thing itself will be brought to ^(SK)Assyria
As a gift of tribute to ^[hz]^(SL)King Jareb;
Ephraim will ^[ia]be ^(SM)seized with shame,
And Israel will be ashamed of its ^(SN)own plan.
⁷Samaria will be ^(SO)destroyed with her king,
Like a twig on the surface of the water.
⁸Also the ^(SP)high places of Aven, the ^(SQ)sin of Israel, will be destroyed;
^(SR)Thorns and thistles will grow on their altars;
Then they will ^(SS)say to the mountains,
“Cover us!” And to the hills, “Fall on us!”
⁹Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, Israel;
There they stand!
Will the battle against the sons of injustice not overtake them in Gibeah?
¹⁰When it is My ^(ST)desire, I will ^[ib]^(SU)discipline them;
And ^(SV)the peoples will be gathered against them
When they are bound for their double guilt.

¹¹Ephraim is a trained ^(SW)heifer that loves to thresh,
^[ic]And I ^(SX)passed over her lovely neck;
I will harness Ephraim,
Judah will plow, Jacob will ^[id]harrow for himself.
¹²^(SY)Sow for yourselves, with a view to righteousness;
Harvest in accordance with ^[ie]kindness.
^(SZ)Break up your uncultivated ground,
For it is time to ^(TA)seek the Lord
Until He ^(TB)comes and ^(TC)rains righteousness on you.
¹³You have ^(TD)plowed wickedness, you have harvested injustice,
You have eaten the fruit of ^(TE)lies.
Because you have trusted in your way, in your ^(TF)many warriors,
¹⁴An uproar will arise among your people,
And all your ^(TG)fortresses will be destroyed,
As Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle,
When ^(TH)mothers were ^[if]slaughtered with their children.
¹⁵So it will be done to you at Bethel because of your great wickedness.
At dawn the king of Israel will be completely destroyed.

God Yearns over His People

11 When Israel was a youth I loved him,
And ^(TI)out of Egypt I ^(TJ)called My son.
²The more ^[ig]^(TK)they called them,
The more they went away from ^[ih]them;
They kept ^(TL)sacrificing to the Baals
And ^(TM)burning incense to idols.
³Yet it is I who taught Ephraim to walk,
^[ii]I ^(TN)took them in My arms;
But they did not know that I ^(TO)healed them.
⁴I ^(TP)pulled them along with cords of a man, with ropes of love,
And ^(TQ)I became to them as one who lifts the yoke from their jaws;
And I bent down and ^(TR)fed them.

⁵^[ij]They will not return to the land of Egypt;
But Assyria—he will be ^[ik]their king
Because they ^(TS)refused to return to Me.
⁶And the ^(TT)sword will whirl against ^[il]their cities,
And will destroy ^[im]their oracle priests
And ^(TU)consume them, because of their ^(TV)counsels.
⁷So My people are determined to ^(TW)turn from Me.
Though ^[in]they call ^[io]them to the One on high,
None at all exalts Him.

⁸^(TX)How can I give you up, Ephraim?
How can I surrender you, Israel?
How can I ^[ip]make you like ^(TY)Admah?
How can I treat you like ^(TZ)Zeboiim?
My heart is turned over within Me,
^[iq]All My compassions are kindled.
⁹I will ^(UA)not carry out My fierce anger;
I will not destroy Ephraim ^(UB)again.
For ^(UC)I am God and not a man, the ^(UD)Holy One in your midst,
And I will not come in ^[ir]wrath.
¹⁰They will ^(UE)walk after the Lord,
He will ^(UF)roar like a lion;
Indeed He will roar,
And His sons will come ^(UG)trembling from the west.
¹¹They will come trembling like birds from ^(UH)Egypt,
And like ^(UI)doves from the land of ^(UJ)Assyria;
And I will ^(UK)settle them in their houses, declares the Lord.

¹²^[is]Ephraim surrounds Me with ^(UL)lies
And the house of Israel with deceit;
^[it]Judah is still unruly against God,
Even against the Holy One who is faithful.

Ephraim Reminded

12 ^[iu]Ephraim feeds on ^(UM)wind,
And pursues the ^(UN)east wind continually;
He multiplies lies and violence.
Moreover, ^[iv]he makes a covenant with Assyria,
And oil is brought to Egypt.
²The Lord also has a ^(UO)case against Judah,
And will punish Jacob ^(UP)according to his ways;
He will repay him according to his deeds.
³In the womb he ^(UQ)took his brother by the heel,
And in his mature strength he ^(UR)contended with God.
⁴Yes, he wrestled with the angel and prevailed;
He wept and ^(US)implored His favor.
He found Him at ^(UT)Bethel,
And there He spoke with us,
⁵And the Lord, the God of armies,
The Lord is His ^[iw]^(UU)name.
⁶So as for you, ^(UV)return to your God,
^(UW)Maintain ^[ix]kindness and justice,
And ^(UX)wait for your God continually.
⁷A ^[iy]merchant, in whose hands are fraudulent ^(UY)balances,
Loves to exploit.
⁸And Ephraim said, “I have certainly become ^(UZ)rich,
I have found wealth for myself;
In all my labors they will find in me
^(VA)No wrongdoing, which would be sin.”
⁹But I have been the Lord your God since the land of Egypt;
I will make you ^(VB)live in tents again,
As in the days of the appointed festival.
¹⁰I have also spoken to the ^(VC)prophets,
And I ^[iz]provided many visions,
And through the prophets I spoke in ^(VD)parables.
¹¹Is there injustice in Gilead?
Certainly they are worthless.
In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls,
Yes, ^(VE)their altars are like stone heaps
Beside the furrows of a field.

¹²Now ^(VF)Jacob fled to the ^[ja]land of Aram,
And ^(VG)Israel worked for a wife,
And for a wife he kept sheep.
¹³But by a ^(VH)prophet the Lord brought Israel up from Egypt,
And by a prophet he was protected.
¹⁴^(VI)Ephraim has provoked God to bitter anger;
So his Lord will leave his ^(VJ)guilt for bloodshed on him
And bring his ^(VK)disgrace back to him.

Ephraim’s Idolatry

13 ^(VL)When Ephraim ^[jb]spoke, there was trembling.
He ^(VM)exalted himself in Israel,
But through ^(VN)Baal he incurred guilt and died.
²And now they sin more and more,
And make for themselves ^(VO)cast metal images,
Idols ^[jc]^(VP)skillfully made from their silver,
All of them the ^(VQ)work of craftsmen.
They say of them, “Let the ^[jd]people who sacrifice kiss the ^(VR)calves!”
³Therefore they will be like the ^(VS)morning cloud
And like dew which ^[je]soon disappears,
Like ^(VT)chaff which is blown away from the threshing floor,
And like ^(VU)smoke from a chimney.

⁴Yet I have been the ^(VV)Lord your God
Since the land of Egypt;
And you were not to know ^(VW)any god except Me,
For there is no savior ^(VX)besides Me.
⁵I ^[jf]^(VY)cared for you in the wilderness,
^(VZ)In the land of drought.
⁶As they had their pasture, they became ^(WA)satisfied,
And as they became satisfied, their ^(WB)heart became proud;
Therefore they ^(WC)forgot Me.
⁷So I will be ^(WD)like a lion to them;
Like a ^(WE)leopard I will ^[jg]lie in wait by the wayside.
⁸I will confront them ^(WF)like a bear deprived of her cubs,
And I will tear open ^[jh]their chests;
I will also ^(WG)devour them there like a lioness,
As a wild animal would tear them to pieces.

⁹^[ji]It is to your own destruction, Israel,
That you are ^(WH)against Me, against your ^(WI)help.
¹⁰Where then is your ^(WJ)king,
That he might save you in all your cities;
And your ^(WK)judges, to whom you said,
“Give me a king and princes”?
¹¹I ^(WL)gave you a king in My anger,
And ^(WM)took him away in My wrath.

¹²The guilt of Ephraim is wrapped up;
His sin is ^(WN)stored up.
¹³The pains of ^(WO)childbirth come on him;
He is ^(WP)not a wise son,
For ^[jj]it is not the time that he should ^(WQ)delay at the opening of the womb.
¹⁴Shall I ^(WR)ransom them from the ^[jk]power of Sheol?
Shall I redeem them from death?
^(WS)Death, where are your ^[jl]thorns?
Sheol, where is your sting?
^(WT)Compassion will be hidden from My sight.

¹⁵Though he ^(WU)flourishes among the ^[jm]reeds,
An ^(WV)east wind will come,
The wind of the Lord coming up from the wilderness;
And his fountain will ^(WW)become dry
And his spring will dry up;
It will ^(WX)plunder his treasury of every precious article.
¹⁶^[jn]Samaria will pay the penalty for her ^(WY)guilt,
Because she has ^(WZ)rebelled against her God.
^(XA)They will fall by the ^(XB)sword,
Their children will be ^[jo]^(XC)slaughtered,
And their pregnant ^(XD)women will be ripped open.

Notas al pie

Daniel 9:3 Lit face
Daniel 9:5 Or made ourselves guilty
Daniel 9:7 Lit the shame of face
Daniel 9:8 Lit The shame of face
Daniel 9:9 Or though
Daniel 9:10 Or laws
Daniel 9:12 Lit judges who judged us
Daniel 9:13 Lit softened the face of
Daniel 9:13 Or having insight into
Daniel 9:14 Lit watched over the evil
Daniel 9:16 Lit righteousnesses
Daniel 9:17 Lit the sake of the Lord
Daniel 9:18 Lit casting down
Daniel 9:18 Lit our righteousnesses
Daniel 9:20 Lit casting down
Daniel 9:21 Lit at the beginning
Daniel 9:21 Lit was reaching; or touching
Daniel 9:21 Or in swift flight
Daniel 9:23 Lit word went out
Daniel 9:23 Lit desirable; or precious
Daniel 9:24 Or units of seven, and so throughout the ch
Daniel 9:24 Or bring to an end
Daniel 9:24 Another reading is seal up sins
Daniel 9:24 Lit prophet
Daniel 9:25 Lit word
Daniel 9:25 Or an anointed one
Daniel 9:25 Or city square
Daniel 9:26 Or anointed one
Daniel 9:26 Or no one
Daniel 9:26 Or his
Daniel 9:26 Or war will be decreed for desolations
Daniel 9:27 Or detestable things
Daniel 9:27 Or causes horror
Daniel 9:27 Or determined
Daniel 9:27 Or causes horror
Daniel 10:1 Lit word
Daniel 10:1 Lit word
Daniel 10:1 Or warfare
Daniel 10:1 Lit word
Daniel 10:2 Lit weeks of days
Daniel 10:3 Lit delicate
Daniel 10:4 Heb Hiddekel
Daniel 10:6 Lit like
Daniel 10:8 Lit destruction
Daniel 10:10 Lit knees and the palms of my hands
Daniel 10:11 Lit man of treasure
Daniel 10:13 Lit opposite me
Daniel 10:14 Lit end of the days
Daniel 10:15 Lit gave
Daniel 10:16 Lit as a likeness of sons of mankind
Daniel 10:16 Lit my pains have
Daniel 10:19 Lit man of treasure
Daniel 10:20 Lit know
Daniel 10:20 Heb Javan
Daniel 10:21 Lit shows himself courageous
Daniel 11:1 Lit my standing up was
Daniel 11:1 Lit a strengthener
Daniel 11:2 Lit for
Daniel 11:2 Or they all will stir up the realm of Greece
Daniel 11:2 Heb Javan
Daniel 11:4 Lit winds of the heaven
Daniel 11:4 I.e., his descendants
Daniel 11:5 Lit and
Daniel 11:5 Lit and he
Daniel 11:6 Lit strength of arm
Daniel 11:6 Lit arm
Daniel 11:7 Lit branch of her roots
Daniel 11:8 Lit stand from the king
Daniel 11:9 Lit he will, and so throughout the ch
Daniel 11:10 Or return and wage
Daniel 11:11 Lit with him, with
Daniel 11:11 Lit his hand
Daniel 11:12 Lit rise
Daniel 11:13 Lit at the end of the times, years
Daniel 11:13 Or keep on coming
Daniel 11:14 Lit stumble, and so throughout the ch
Daniel 11:15 Lit the people of its choice ones
Daniel 11:16 I.e., Israel
Daniel 11:17 Lit face
Daniel 11:17 Lit and
Daniel 11:17 Lit equitable things
Daniel 11:17 Lit for him; i.e., for her father
Daniel 11:20 Or tax collector
Daniel 11:20 Lit splendor; i.e., prob. Jerusalem and its temple
Daniel 11:24 Lit In tranquility and the rich...he will enter
Daniel 11:24 Lit province
Daniel 11:24 Lit fathers’ fathers
Daniel 11:25 Lit heart
Daniel 11:26 Lit break
Daniel 11:26 Or be swept away, and many
Daniel 11:28 Lit property
Daniel 11:29 Lit it will not happen as the first and as the last
Daniel 11:30 I.e., Cyprus
Daniel 11:31 Lit that makes desolate; or that causes horror
Daniel 11:32 Or ruin those
Daniel 11:33 Or instructors of the people will
Daniel 11:35 Or the instructors
Daniel 11:35 Or whiten
Daniel 11:36 Or amazing
Daniel 11:37 Or God
Daniel 11:37 Or darling of
Daniel 11:38 Lit in his place
Daniel 11:39 Lit the one who acknowledges
Daniel 11:41 I.e., Israel
Daniel 11:43 Lit rule over
Daniel 11:43 Lit footsteps
Daniel 11:44 Lit devote many to destruction
Daniel 12:2 Lit abhorrence
Daniel 12:3 Or The instructors will
Daniel 12:3 Or firmament; i.e., atmosphere and space
Daniel 12:3 Or obtain rights for many, like
Daniel 12:7 Lit and
Daniel 12:7 I.e., year(s)
Daniel 12:7 I.e., year(s)
Daniel 12:7 I.e., year(s)
Daniel 12:7 Lit to finish
Daniel 12:7 Lit hand
Daniel 12:8 Or final end
Daniel 12:10 Or whitened
Daniel 12:10 Or the instructors will
Daniel 12:11 Lit that makes desolate; or that causes horror
Daniel 12:13 I.e., end of your life
Daniel 12:13 Lit stand
Daniel 12:13 Lit days
Hosea 1:2 Lit of infidelity; or fornication
Hosea 1:2 Lit away from
Hosea 1:4 Lit visit the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu
Hosea 1:6 Lit He
Hosea 1:6 I.e., not having obtained mercy
Hosea 1:9 Lit He
Hosea 1:9 I.e., not my people
Hosea 1:9 Lit yours
Hosea 1:10 Ch 2:1 in Heb
Hosea 2:1 Ch 2:3 in Heb
Hosea 2:1 I.e., my people
Hosea 2:1 I.e., she has obtained compassion
Hosea 2:6 As in some ancient versions; MT your
Hosea 2:6 Lit her stone wall so that
Hosea 2:8 Or made into the
Hosea 2:9 Lit return and take My
Hosea 2:9 Lit its time
Hosea 2:10 Or shame
Hosea 2:13 Or burn incense
Hosea 2:14 Lit upon her heart
Hosea 2:15 Lit Valley of Trouble
Hosea 2:15 Or give answer
Hosea 2:16 Heb Ishi
Hosea 2:16 Also meaning husband in Heb, besides a name for false gods
Hosea 2:17 Or remembered
Hosea 2:18 Lit break
Hosea 2:22 I.e., God sows
Hosea 2:23 Heb Lo-ruhamah
Hosea 2:23 Heb Lo-ammi
Hosea 2:23 Lit he
Hosea 3:1 I.e., Gomer
Hosea 3:1 Lit companion
Hosea 3:1 Used in idolatry
Hosea 3:2 About 7.7 cubic feet or 0.22 cubic meters
Hosea 3:2 About 3.8 cubic feet or 0.11 cubic meters
Hosea 3:4 Heb teraphim
Hosea 4:1 Or truth
Hosea 4:1 Or kindness
Hosea 4:2 I.e., of truth
Hosea 4:2 Lit touches
Hosea 4:3 Lit are taken away
Hosea 4:4 Lit contend
Hosea 4:8 Or sin offering
Hosea 4:10 I.e., either in population or wealth
Hosea 4:11 Or Prostitution
Hosea 4:11 Lit heart
Hosea 4:12 Lit from under
Hosea 4:13 Or offer sacrifices
Hosea 4:13 Or daughters-in-law
Hosea 4:14 Or daughters-in-law
Hosea 4:16 Or The Lord will now pasture...field.
Hosea 4:18 Another reading is They dearly love the shame of gifts
Hosea 4:18 Lit shields
Hosea 4:19 Or ashamed
Hosea 5:2 Or slaughter
Hosea 5:4 Or prostitution
Hosea 5:7 Lit strange
Hosea 5:7 Lit portions
Hosea 5:11 Or with some ancient versions, nothingness
Hosea 5:13 Or ulcer
Hosea 5:13 Or another reading is the great king; or the contentious king
Hosea 5:13 Or ulcer
Hosea 5:15 Or suffer their punishment
Hosea 6:1 Lit struck
Hosea 6:5 Lit proceeds
Hosea 6:6 Or take pleasure in
Hosea 6:7 Or men
Hosea 7:2 Lit say to their
Hosea 7:4 Lit stirring up
Hosea 7:5 I.e., a festive occasion
Hosea 7:5 Or rebels
Hosea 7:6 Lit ambush
Hosea 7:6 As in some ancient versions; MT baker
Hosea 7:6 Lit is asleep
Hosea 7:8 Lit peoples
Hosea 7:11 Lit heart
Hosea 7:12 Lit report
Hosea 7:14 Or LXX and many ancient mss gash themselves
Hosea 7:16 Or possibly to the Most High
Hosea 7:16 Lit cursing
Hosea 8:1 Lit palate
Hosea 8:4 Lit he
Hosea 8:5 Or Your calf has rejected you
Hosea 8:6 Or splinters
Hosea 8:7 Lit growth
Hosea 8:7 Or meal
Hosea 8:9 Lit love gifts
Hosea 8:10 Or recruit allies
Hosea 9:1 Lit to
Hosea 9:1 Lit peoples
Hosea 9:1 Lit away from your God
Hosea 9:1 Lit all threshing floors of grain
Hosea 9:2 Lit her
Hosea 9:4 Or they offer to Him their
Hosea 9:4 Lit bread of mourning
Hosea 9:4 Lit their soul
Hosea 9:7 Or Israel will know this
Hosea 9:7 Lit man of the spirit
Hosea 9:7 Or persecution
Hosea 9:8 Or persecution
Hosea 9:10 I.e., Baal
Hosea 9:12 Lit without a person
Hosea 10:1 Lit better
Hosea 10:1 Lit they
Hosea 10:2 Lit slippery; or divided
Hosea 10:2 Lit He
Hosea 10:4 Or Swearing falsely in making a covenant
Hosea 10:5 As in some ancient versions; MT calves
Hosea 10:5 Or who used to rejoice over
Hosea 10:6 Another reading is the great king; or the contentious king
Hosea 10:6 Lit receive shame
Hosea 10:10 Or instruct
Hosea 10:11 Or But I put a yoke on her lovely
Hosea 10:11 I.e., pull a harrow, a farming device
Hosea 10:12 Or loyalty
Hosea 10:14 Lit shattered
Hosea 11:2 I.e., God’s prophets
Hosea 11:2 I.e., God’s prophets
Hosea 11:3 As in ancient versions; MT He...His
Hosea 11:5 Lit He
Hosea 11:5 Lit his
Hosea 11:6 Lit his
Hosea 11:6 Lit his
Hosea 11:7 I.e., God’s prophets
Hosea 11:7 Lit him; i.e., Israel
Hosea 11:8 Lit give
Hosea 11:8 Lit Together
Hosea 11:9 Lit agitation
Hosea 11:12 Ch 12:1 in Heb
Hosea 11:12 Or But Judah still goes about with God, even with
Hosea 12:1 Ch 12:2 in Heb
Hosea 12:1 Lit they make
Hosea 12:5 Lit invocation
Hosea 12:6 Or loyalty
Hosea 12:7 Or Canaanite
Hosea 12:10 Lit multiplied the vision
Hosea 12:12 Lit field
Hosea 13:1 Or spoke with trembling, he exalted
Hosea 13:2 Or according to their skill
Hosea 13:2 Lit sacrificers of; or among mankind
Hosea 13:3 Lit goes away early
Hosea 13:5 Or knew
Hosea 13:7 Or watch
Hosea 13:8 Lit the enclosure of their heart
Hosea 13:9 Lit It has destroyed you
Hosea 13:13 Lit it is the time that he should not remain at the opening of children
Hosea 13:14 Lit hand
Hosea 13:14 Or stings
Hosea 13:15 Another reading is brothers
Hosea 13:16 Ch 14:1 in Heb
Hosea 13:16 Lit shattered

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Daniel 9 - Hosea 10 English Standard Version

Daniel's Prayer for His People

Gabriel Brings an Answer

The Seventy Weeks

Daniel's Terrifying Vision of a Man

The Kings of the South and the North

The Time of the End

Hosea's Wife and Children

Israel's Unfaithfulness Punished

The Lord's Mercy on Israel

Hosea Redeems His Wife

The Lord Accuses Israel

Punishment Coming for Israel and Judah

Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant

Israel Will Reap the Whirlwind

The Lord Will Punish Israel

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Daniel 9 - Hosea 13 New American Standard Bible

Daniel’s Prayer for His People

Gabriel Brings an Answer

Seventy Weeks and the Messiah

Daniel Is Terrified by a Vision

Daniel Comforted

Conflicts to Come

The Time of the End

Hosea’s Wife and Children

Israel’s Unfaithfulness Condemned

Restoration of Israel

Hosea’s Redemption of Gomer

God’s Controversy with Israel

The People’s Apostasy Rebuked

The Response to God’s Rebuke

Ephraim’s Wrongdoing

Israel Reaps the Whirlwind

Ephraim Punished

Retribution for Israel’s Sin

God Yearns over His People

Ephraim Reminded

Ephraim’s Idolatry

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Daniel 9 - Hosea 10

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Daniel 9 - Hosea 13

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