Hosea 5:13-6:6

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¹³When Ephraim saw his sickness,
    and Judah ^(A)his wound,
then Ephraim went ^(B)to Assyria,
    and sent to the great king.^[a]
^(C)But he is not able to cure you
    or heal ^(D)your wound.
¹⁴For I will be ^(E)like a lion to ^(F)Ephraim,
    and like a young lion to the house of ^(G)Judah.
^(H)I, even I, will tear and go away;
    I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.

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

Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant

6 “Come, let us ^(K)return to the Lord;
    for ^(L)he has torn us, that he may heal us;
    he has struck us down, and ^(M)he will bind us up.
²After two days ^(N)he will revive us;
    on the third day he will raise us up,
    that we may live before him.
³^(O)Let us know; ^(P)let us press on to know the Lord;
    ^(Q)his going out is sure as the dawn;
he will come to us ^(R)as the showers,
    ^(S)as the spring rains that water the earth.”

⁴What shall I do with you, ^(T)O ^(U)Ephraim?
    What shall I do with you, O ^(V)Judah?
Your love is ^(W)like a morning cloud,
    ^(X)like the dew that goes early away.
⁵Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets;
    I have slain them ^(Y)by the words of my mouth,
    and my judgment goes forth as the light.
⁶For ^(Z)I desire steadfast love^[b] and not sacrifice,
    ^(AA)the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Footnotes

Hosea 5:13 Or to King Jareb
Hosea 6:6 Septuagint mercy

Matthew 9:9-17

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Jesus Calls Matthew

⁹^(A)As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called ^(B)Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.

¹⁰And as Jesus^[a] reclined at table in the house, behold, many ^(C)tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples. ¹¹And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, ^(D)“Why does your teacher eat with ^(E)tax collectors and sinners?” ¹²But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. ¹³Go and learn ^(F)what this means: ^(G)‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For ^(H)I came not to call the righteous, ^(I)but sinners.”

A Question About Fasting

¹⁴Then ^(J)the disciples of John came to him, saying, ^(K)“Why do we and ^(L)the Pharisees fast,^[b] but your disciples do not fast?” ¹⁵And Jesus said to them, ^(M)“Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? ^(N)The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and ^(O)then they will fast. ¹⁶No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made. ¹⁷Neither is new wine put into old ^(P)wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.”