Hosea 8-10

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Israel Will Reap the Whirlwind

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

⁴^(E)They made kings, ^(F)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^(G)I have^[a] spurned your calf, O Samaria.
    My anger burns against them.
^(H)How long will they be incapable of innocence?
⁶For it is from Israel;
a craftsman made it;
    it is not God.
^(I)The calf of Samaria
    ^(J)shall be broken to pieces.^[b]

⁷For ^(K)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,
    ^(L)strangers would devour it.
⁸^(M)Israel is swallowed up;
    already they are among the nations
    as ^(N)a useless vessel.
⁹For ^(O)they have gone up to Assyria,
    ^(P)a wild donkey wandering alone;
    Ephraim has hired lovers.
¹⁰Though they hire allies among the nations,
    I will soon gather them up.
And ^(Q)the king and princes ^(R)shall soon writhe
    because of the tribute.

¹¹Because Ephraim ^(S)has multiplied altars for sinning,
    they have become to him altars for sinning.
¹²^(T)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,
    ^(U)they sacrifice meat and eat it,
    but the Lord does not accept them.
^(V)Now he will remember their iniquity
    and punish their sins;
    ^(W)they shall return to Egypt.
¹⁴For ^(X)Israel has forgotten ^(Y)his Maker
    and ^(Z)built palaces,
and ^(AA)Judah has multiplied fortified cities;
    so ^(AB)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;
^(AC)for you have played the whore, forsaking your God.
    ^(AD)You have loved a prostitute's wages
    on all threshing floors.
²^(AE)Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them,
    and ^(AF)the new wine shall fail them.
³They shall not remain in ^(AG)the land of the Lord,
    but ^(AH)Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
    and ^(AI)they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

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

⁵^(AN)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 ^(AO)Egypt shall gather them;
    Memphis shall bury them.
Nettles shall possess ^(AP)their precious things of silver;
    ^(AQ)thorns shall be in their tents.

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

¹⁰Like grapes in the wilderness,
    ^(AY)I found Israel.
Like the first fruit on the fig tree
    in its first season,
    I saw your fathers.
But ^(AZ)they came to Baal-peor
    and ^(BA)consecrated themselves to the thing of shame,
    and ^(BB)became detestable like the thing they loved.
¹¹Ephraim's ^(BC)glory shall fly away like a bird—
    ^(BD)no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
¹²^(BE)Even if they bring up children,
    I will bereave them till none is left.
^(BF)Woe to them
    when ^(BG)I depart from them!
¹³Ephraim, ^(BH)as I have seen, was like a young palm^[c] planted in a meadow;
    but ^(BI)Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.^[d]
¹⁴Give them, O Lord—
    what will you give?
Give them ^(BJ)a miscarrying womb
    and dry breasts.

¹⁵Every evil of theirs is in ^(BK)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 ^(BL)their princes are ^(BM)rebels.

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

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

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

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

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

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

¹³^(CT)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 ^(CU)the tumult of war shall arise among your people,
    and all your fortresses shall be destroyed,
as ^(CV)Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle;
    ^(CW)mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.
¹⁵Thus it shall be done to you, O ^(CX)Bethel,
    because of your great evil.
At dawn ^(CY)the king of Israel
    shall be utterly cut off.

Footnotes

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

1 Peter 3

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Wives and Husbands

3 Likewise, wives, ^(A)be subject to your own husbands, so that ^(B)even if some do not obey the word, ^(C)they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, ²when they see your ^(D)respectful and pure conduct. ³^(E)Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— ⁴but let your adorning be ^(F)the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. ⁵For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, ⁶as Sarah obeyed Abraham, ^(G)calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and ^(H)do not fear anything that is frightening.

⁷Likewise, ^(I)husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker ^(J)vessel, since they are heirs with you^[a] of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

Suffering for Righteousness' Sake

⁸Finally, all of you, ^(K)have unity of mind, sympathy, ^(L)brotherly love, ^(M)a tender heart, and ^(N)a humble mind. ⁹^(O)Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, ^(P)bless, for ^(Q)to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing. ¹⁰For

^(R)“Whoever desires to love life
    and see good days,
let him keep his tongue from evil
    and his lips from speaking deceit;
¹¹let him turn away from evil and do good;
    let him seek peace and pursue it.
¹²For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
    and his ears are open to their prayer.
But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

¹³Now ^(S)who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good? ¹⁴^(T)But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. ^(U)Have no fear of them, ^(V)nor be troubled, ¹⁵but ^(W)in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, ^(X)always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and ^(Y)respect, ¹⁶^(Z)having a good conscience, so that, ^(AA)when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. ¹⁷For ^(AB)it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.

¹⁸For Christ also ^(AC)suffered^[b] ^(AD)once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, ^(AE)that he might bring us to God, being put to death ^(AF)in the flesh but made alive ^(AG)in the spirit, ¹⁹in which^[c] he went and ^(AH)proclaimed^[d] to the spirits in prison, ²⁰because^[e] they formerly did not obey, ^(AI)when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, ^(AJ)while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, ^(AK)eight persons, were brought safely through water. ²¹Baptism, which corresponds to this, ^(AL)now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but ^(AM)as an appeal to God for a good conscience, ^(AN)through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, ²²who has gone into heaven and ^(AO)is at the right hand of God, ^(AP)with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.

Footnotes

1 Peter 3:7 Some manuscripts since you are joint heirs
1 Peter 3:18 Some manuscripts died
1 Peter 3:19 Or the Spirit, in whom
1 Peter 3:19 Or preached
1 Peter 3:20 Or when

Psalm 135:15-21

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¹⁵^(A)The idols of the nations are silver and gold,
    the work of human hands.
¹⁶They have mouths, but do not speak;
    they have eyes, but do not see;
¹⁷they have ears, but do not hear,
    nor is there any breath in their mouths.
¹⁸Those who make them become like them;
    so do all who trust in them.

¹⁹^(B)O house of Israel, bless the Lord!
    O house of Aaron, bless the Lord!
²⁰O house of Levi, bless the Lord!
    You who fear the Lord, bless the Lord!
²¹Blessed be the Lord ^(C)from Zion,
    he who ^(D)dwells in Jerusalem!
^(E)Praise the Lord!

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Proverbs 29:14-16

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¹⁴If a king ^(A)faithfully judges the poor,
    his throne will ^(B)be established forever.
¹⁵^(C)The rod and reproof give wisdom,
    but a child left to himself ^(D)brings shame to his mother.
¹⁶When the wicked increase, transgression increases,
    but ^(E)the righteous will look upon their downfall.