Hosea 3-4

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Hosea Redeems His Wife

3 And the Lord said to me, ^(A)“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 ^(B)homer and a lethech^[a] of barley. ³And I said to her, “You must ^(C)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 ^(D)shall dwell many days ^(E)without king or prince, ^(F)without sacrifice or ^(G)pillar, without ^(H)ephod or ^(I)household gods. ⁵Afterward ^(J)the children of Israel shall return and ^(K)seek the Lord their God, and ^(L)David their king, ^(M)and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the ^(N)latter days.

The Lord Accuses Israel

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

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

⁷^(AD)The more they increased,
    the more they sinned against me;
    ^(AE)I will change their glory into shame.
⁸^(AF)They feed on the sin^[c] of my people;
    they are greedy for their iniquity.
⁹^(AG)And it shall be like people, like priest;
    I will punish them for their ways
    and repay them for their deeds.
¹⁰^(AH)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 ^(AI)take away the understanding.
¹²My people ^(AJ)inquire of a piece of wood,
    and their walking staff gives them oracles.
For ^(AK)a spirit of whoredom has led them astray,
    and they have left their God to play the whore.
¹³^(AL)They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains
    and burn offerings on the hills,
^(AM)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 ^(AN)the men themselves go aside with prostitutes
    and sacrifice with ^(AO)cult prostitutes,
and a people ^(AP)without understanding shall come to ruin.

¹⁵Though you play the whore, O ^(AQ)Israel,
    let not ^(AR)Judah become guilty.
^(AS)Enter not into ^(AT)Gilgal,
    nor go up to ^(AU)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^(AV)Ephraim is joined to idols;
    ^(AW)leave him alone.
¹⁸When their drink is gone, they give themselves to whoring;
    ^(AX)their rulers^[d] dearly love shame.
¹⁹^(AY)A wind has wrapped them^[e] in its wings,
    and they shall ^(AZ)be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

Footnotes

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

Hebrews 3

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Jesus Greater Than Moses

3 Therefore, holy brothers,^[a] you who share in ^(A)a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, ^(B)the apostle and high priest of our confession, ²who was faithful to him who appointed him, ^(C)just as Moses also was faithful in all God's^[b] house. ³For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. ⁴(For every house is built by someone, but ^(D)the builder of all things is God.) ⁵^(E)Now Moses was faithful in all God's house ^(F)as a servant, ^(G)to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, ⁶but Christ is faithful over God's house as ^(H)a son. And ^(I)we are his house, if indeed we ^(J)hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.^[c]

A Rest for the People of God

⁷Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,

^(K)“Today, if you hear his voice,
⁸do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
    on the day of testing in the wilderness,
⁹where your fathers put me to the test
    and saw my works for ^(L)forty years.
¹⁰Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
    they have not known my ways.’
¹¹^(M)As I swore in my wrath,
    ‘They shall not enter my rest.’”

¹²Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from ^(N)the living God. ¹³But ^(O)exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by ^(P)the deceitfulness of sin. ¹⁴For we have come to share in Christ, ^(Q)if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. ¹⁵As it is said,

^(R)“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

¹⁶For ^(S)who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not ^(T)all those who left Egypt led by Moses? ¹⁷And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, ^(U)whose bodies fell in the wilderness? ¹⁸And to whom did he swear that ^(V)they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? ¹⁹So we see that ^(W)they were unable to enter because of unbelief.