He destroys[a] you, O Israel,
    for you are against me, against (A)your helper.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:9 Or I will destroy

19 (A)Your evil will chastise you,
    and (B)your apostasy will reprove you.
Know and see that it is evil and (C)bitter
    for (D)you to forsake the Lord your God;
    the fear of me is not in you,
declares the Lord God of hosts.

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17 (A)Have you not brought this upon yourself
    by forsaking the Lord your God,
    when (B)he led you in the way?

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26 (A)“There is none like God, O (B)Jeshurun,
    (C)who rides through the heavens to your help,
    through the skies in his majesty.

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For (A)we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. But when (B)the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, (C)not because of works done by us in righteousness, but (D)according to his own mercy, by (E)the washing of regeneration and (F)renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he (G)poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that (H)being justified by his grace we might become (I)heirs (J)according to the hope of eternal life.

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Spiritual Blessings in Christ

(A)Blessed be (B)the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing (C)in the heavenly places, (D)even as he (E)chose us in him (F)before the foundation of the world, that we should be (G)holy and blameless before him. In love (H)he predestined us[a] for (I)adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, (J)according to the purpose of his will,

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 1:5 Or before him in love, 5having predestined us

And now (A)entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With such a gift from your hand, (B)will he show favor to any of you? says the Lord of hosts.

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A Plea to Return to the Lord

14 (A)Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
    for (B)you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

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But (A)I am the Lord your God
    from the land of Egypt;
(B)you know no God but me,
    and (C)besides me there is no savior.

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25 (A)Your iniquities have turned these away,
    and your sins have kept good from you.

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18 Your ways and your deeds
    have brought this upon you.
This is your doom, and (A)it is bitter;
    it has reached your very heart.”

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11 (A)Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him,
    for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.

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For the look on their faces bears witness against them;
    they proclaim their sin (A)like Sodom;
    they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
    (B)For they have brought evil on themselves.

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36 but he who fails to find me (A)injures himself;
    all who (B)hate me (C)love death.”

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32 He who commits adultery lacks sense;
    he who does it destroys himself.

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(A)Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
    whose (B)hope is in the Lord his God,

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My Help Comes from the Lord

A Song of (A)Ascents.

121 I (B)lift up my eyes to (C)the hills.
    From where does my help come?
(D)My help comes from the Lord,
    who (E)made heaven and earth.

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God Is Our Fortress

To the choirmaster. Of (A)the Sons of Korah. According to (B)Alamoth.[a] A Song.

46 God is our (C)refuge and strength,
    a very (D)present[b] help in (E)trouble.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 46:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
  2. Psalm 46:1 Or well proved

20 Our soul (A)waits for the Lord;
    he is our (B)help and (C)our shield.

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Exile Because of Idolatry

And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, (A)who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods (B)and walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel, (C)and in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced. And the people of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, (D)from watchtower to fortified city. 10 They set up for themselves (E)pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, 11 and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger, 12 and they served idols, (F)of which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.” 13 Yet the Lord (G)warned Israel and Judah (H)by every prophet (I)and every seer, saying, (J)“Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”

14 But they would not listen, (K)but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God. 15 They despised his statutes (L)and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after (M)false idols (N)and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the (O)Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them. 16 And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of (P)two calves; and they (Q)made an Asherah and (R)worshiped all the host of heaven and served (S)Baal. 17 (T)And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings[a] and used (U)divination and (V)omens and (W)sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 17:17 Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire

29 Happy are you, O Israel! (A)Who is like you,
    a people (B)saved by the Lord,
(C)the shield of your help,
    and the sword of your triumph!
Your enemies shall come fawning to you,
    and you shall tread upon their backs.”

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