Hosea 7-11

English Standard Version

7 ^(A)when I would heal Israel,
    the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed,
    and the evil deeds of ^(B)Samaria,
for ^(C)they deal falsely;
    the thief breaks in,
    and the bandits raid outside.
²But they do not consider
    that ^(D)I remember all their evil.
Now ^(E)their deeds surround them;
    ^(F)they are before my face.
³By their evil ^(G)they make ^(H)the king glad,
    and the princes by their treachery.
⁴^(I)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 ^(J)our king, the princes
    became sick with the heat of wine;
    he stretched out his hand with mockers.
⁶For with hearts like an oven ^(K)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 ^(L)their kings ^(M)have fallen,
    and none of them calls upon me.

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

¹¹Ephraim is like a dove,
    ^(T)silly and without sense,
    calling to ^(U)Egypt, going to ^(V)Assyria.
¹²As they go, ^(W)I will spread over them my net;
    I will bring them down like birds of the heavens;
    ^(X)I will discipline them ^(Y)according to the report made to their congregation.
¹³^(Z)Woe to them, for they have strayed from me!
    Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me!
^(AA)I would redeem them,
    but ^(AB)they speak lies against me.

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

Israel Will Reap the Whirlwind

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

⁴^(AN)They made kings, ^(AO)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^(AP)I have^[c] spurned your calf, O Samaria.
    My anger burns against them.
^(AQ)How long will they be incapable of innocence?
⁶For it is from Israel;
a craftsman made it;
    it is not God.
^(AR)The calf of Samaria
    ^(AS)shall be broken to pieces.^[d]

⁷For ^(AT)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,
    ^(AU)strangers would devour it.
⁸^(AV)Israel is swallowed up;
    already they are among the nations
    as ^(AW)a useless vessel.
⁹For ^(AX)they have gone up to Assyria,
    ^(AY)a wild donkey wandering alone;
    Ephraim has hired lovers.
¹⁰Though they hire allies among the nations,
    I will soon gather them up.
And ^(AZ)the king and princes ^(BA)shall soon writhe
    because of the tribute.

¹¹Because Ephraim ^(BB)has multiplied altars for sinning,
    they have become to him altars for sinning.
¹²^(BC)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,
    ^(BD)they sacrifice meat and eat it,
    but the Lord does not accept them.
^(BE)Now he will remember their iniquity
    and punish their sins;
    ^(BF)they shall return to Egypt.
¹⁴For ^(BG)Israel has forgotten ^(BH)his Maker
    and ^(BI)built palaces,
and ^(BJ)Judah has multiplied fortified cities;
    so ^(BK)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;
^(BL)for you have played the whore, forsaking your God.
    ^(BM)You have loved a prostitute's wages
    on all threshing floors.
²^(BN)Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them,
    and ^(BO)the new wine shall fail them.
³They shall not remain in ^(BP)the land of the Lord,
    but ^(BQ)Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
    and ^(BR)they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

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

⁵^(BW)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 ^(BX)Egypt shall gather them;
    Memphis shall bury them.
Nettles shall possess ^(BY)their precious things of silver;
    ^(BZ)thorns shall be in their tents.

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

¹⁰Like grapes in the wilderness,
    ^(CH)I found Israel.
Like the first fruit on the fig tree
    in its first season,
    I saw your fathers.
But ^(CI)they came to Baal-peor
    and ^(CJ)consecrated themselves to the thing of shame,
    and ^(CK)became detestable like the thing they loved.
¹¹Ephraim's ^(CL)glory shall fly away like a bird—
    ^(CM)no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
¹²^(CN)Even if they bring up children,
    I will bereave them till none is left.
^(CO)Woe to them
    when ^(CP)I depart from them!
¹³Ephraim, ^(CQ)as I have seen, was like a young palm^[e] planted in a meadow;
    but ^(CR)Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.^[f]
¹⁴Give them, O Lord—
    what will you give?
Give them ^(CS)a miscarrying womb
    and dry breasts.

¹⁵Every evil of theirs is in ^(CT)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 ^(CU)their princes are ^(CV)rebels.

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

10 ^(DB)Israel is a luxuriant vine
    that yields its fruit.
The more his fruit increased,
    ^(DC)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^[g] will break down their altars
    and destroy their pillars.

³For now they will say:
    ^(DD)“We have no king,
for we do not fear the Lord;
    and a king—what could he do for us?”
⁴They utter ^(DE)mere words;
    with empty^[h] oaths they make covenants;
so ^(DF)judgment springs up like poisonous weeds
    ^(DG)in the furrows of the field.
⁵The inhabitants of Samaria tremble
    for ^(DH)the calf^[i] of ^(DI)Beth-aven.
Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests—
    those who rejoiced over it and ^(DJ)over its glory—
    for it has departed^[j] from them.
⁶^(DK)The thing itself shall be carried to Assyria
    as tribute to ^(DL)the great king.^[k]
Ephraim shall be put to shame,
    and Israel shall be ashamed ^(DM)of his idol.^[l]

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

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

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

¹³^(EC)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,
¹⁴therefore ^(ED)the tumult of war shall arise among your people,
    and all your fortresses shall be destroyed,
as ^(EE)Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle;
    ^(EF)mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.
¹⁵Thus it shall be done to you, O ^(EG)Bethel,
    because of your great evil.
At dawn ^(EH)the king of Israel
    shall be utterly cut off.

The Lord's Love for Israel

11 ^(EI)When Israel was a child, ^(EJ)I loved him,
    and out of Egypt I ^(EK)called ^(EL)my son.
²^(EM)The more they were called,
    the more they went away;
^(EN)they kept sacrificing to the Baals
    and burning offerings to idols.

³Yet it was ^(EO)I who taught Ephraim to walk;
    I took them up by their arms,
    but they did not know that ^(EP)I healed them.
⁴^(EQ)I led them with cords of kindness,^[n]
    with the bands of love,
and ^(ER)I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws,
    and ^(ES)I bent down to them and fed them.

⁵^(ET)They shall not^[o] return to the land of Egypt,
    but ^(EU)Assyria shall be their king,
    ^(EV)because ^(EW)they have refused to return to me.
⁶^(EX)The sword shall rage against their cities,
    consume the bars of their gates,
    and devour them ^(EY)because of their own counsels.
⁷My people are bent ^(EZ)on turning away from me,
    and though ^(FA)they call out to the Most High,
    he shall not raise them up at all.

⁸How can I give you up, O Ephraim?
    How can I hand you over, O Israel?
^(FB)How can I make you ^(FC)like Admah?
    How can I treat you ^(FD)like Zeboiim?
^(FE)My heart recoils within me;
    my compassion grows warm and tender.
⁹I will not execute my burning anger;
    I will not again destroy Ephraim;
^(FF)for I am God and not a man,
    ^(FG)the Holy One in your midst,
    and I will not come in wrath.^[p]

¹⁰^(FH)They shall go after the Lord;
    ^(FI)he will roar like a lion;
when he roars,
    his children shall come trembling ^(FJ)from the west;
¹¹they shall come trembling like birds ^(FK)from Egypt,
    and ^(FL)like doves ^(FM)from the land of Assyria,
    and I will return them to their homes, declares the Lord.
¹²^[q] Ephraim ^(FN)has surrounded me with lies,
    and the house of Israel with deceit,
but Judah still walks with God
    and is faithful to the Holy One.

Footnotes

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
Hosea 11:4 Or humaneness; Hebrew man
Hosea 11:5 Or surely
Hosea 11:9 Or into the city
Hosea 11:12 Ch 12:1 in Hebrew

Revelation 11

English Standard Version

The Two Witnesses

11 Then I was given ^(A)a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, ²but do not measure ^(B)the court outside the temple; leave that out, for ^(C)it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for ^(D)forty-two months. ³And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for ^(E)1,260 days, ^(F)clothed in sackcloth.”

⁴These are ^(G)the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. ⁵And if anyone would harm them, ^(H)fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, ^(I)this is how he is doomed to be killed. ⁶They have the power ^(J)to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and ^(K)to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire. ⁷And when they have finished their testimony, ^(L)the beast that rises from ^(M)the bottomless pit^[a] ^(N)will make war on them and conquer them and kill them, ⁸and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically^[b] is called ^(O)Sodom and ^(P)Egypt, where their Lord was crucified. ⁹For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and ^(Q)refuse to let them be placed in a tomb, ¹⁰and ^(R)those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and ^(S)exchange presents, because these two prophets ^(T)had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth. ¹¹But after the three and a half days ^(U)a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. ¹²Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, ^(V)“Come up here!” And ^(W)they went up to heaven ^(X)in a cloud, and their enemies watched them. ¹³And at that hour there was ^(Y)a great earthquake, and ^(Z)a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and ^(AA)gave glory to ^(AB)the God of heaven.

¹⁴^(AC)The second woe has passed; behold, the third woe is soon to come.

The Seventh Trumpet

¹⁵Then ^(AD)the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and ^(AE)there were loud voices in heaven, saying, ^(AF)“The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of ^(AG)his Christ, and ^(AH)he shall reign forever and ever.” ¹⁶And the twenty-four elders ^(AI)who sit on their thrones before God ^(AJ)fell on their faces and worshiped God, ¹⁷saying,

“We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,
    ^(AK)who is and who was,
for you have taken your great power
    and ^(AL)begun to reign.
¹⁸The nations raged,
    but ^(AM)your wrath came,
    and ^(AN)the time for the dead to be judged,
and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints,
    and ^(AO)those who fear your name,
    both small and great,
and ^(AP)for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”

¹⁹Then ^(AQ)God's temple in heaven was opened, and ^(AR)the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings,^[c] peals of thunder, an earthquake, and ^(AS)heavy hail.