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17 Yeshua told her, “Don’t hold on to me. I have not yet gone to the Father. But go to my brothers and sisters and tell them, ‘I am going to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

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Psalm 54

For the choir director; on stringed instruments; a maskil by David when people from the city of Ziph told Saul that David was hiding among them.

O Elohim, save me by your name,
    and defend me with your might.
O Elohim, hear my prayer,
    and open your ears to the words from my mouth.

Strangers have attacked me.
    Ruthless people seek my life.
    They do not think about Elohim.[a] Selah

Elohim is my helper!
    Adonay is the provider for my life.
My enemies spy on me.
    Pay them back with evil.
        Destroy them with your truth!

I will make a sacrifice to you along with a freewill offering.
    I will give thanks to your good name, O Yahweh.
Your name rescues me from every trouble.
    My eyes will gloat over my enemies.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 54:3 Hebrew meaning of this line uncertain.

The Lord Offers to Forgive Israel

14 [a]Israel, return to Yahweh your Elohim.
    You have stumbled because of your sins.
Return to Yahweh, and say these things to him:
    “Forgive all our sins, and kindly receive us.
        Then we’ll praise you with our lips.
Assyria cannot save us.
    We won’t ride on horses anymore.
        We will never again say
            that the things our hands have made are our gods.
                You love orphans.”

The Lord says, “I will cure them of their unfaithfulness.
    I will love them freely.
    I will no longer be angry with them.
I will be like dew to the people of Israel.
    They will blossom like flowers.
    They will be firmly rooted like cedars from Lebanon.
They will be like growing branches.
    They will be beautiful like olive trees.
    They will be fragrant like cedars from Lebanon.
They will live again in God’s shadow.
    They will grow like grain.
    They will blossom like grapevines.
    They will be as famous as the wines from Lebanon.

“The people of Ephraim will have nothing more to do with idols.
    I will answer them and take care of them.
        I am like a growing pine tree.
            Their fruit comes from me.”

Wise people will understand these things.
    A person with insight will recognize them.
    Yahweh’s ways are right.
        Righteous people live by them.
        Rebellious people stumble over them.

Footnotes

  1. Hosea 14:1 Hosea 14:1–9 in English Bibles is Hosea 14:2–10 in the Hebrew Bible.

A Hymn of Praise from the Lord’s People in His Kingdom

12 At that time you will say,

“I will praise you, O Yahweh.
    Although you had been angry with me,
    you turned your anger away from me, and you comforted me.
Look! El is my Savior.
    I am confident and unafraid,
    because Yah is my strength and my song.
    He is my Savior.”

With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation.

At that time you will say,

“Praise Yahweh.
    Call on his name.
    Make his deeds known among the nations.
    Make them remember that his name is highly honored.
Make music to praise Yahweh.
    He has done wonderful things.
        Let this be known throughout the earth.
Shout loudly, and sing with joy, people of Zion!
    Qedosh Yisrael is great. He is among you.”

33 “But this is the promise that I will make to Israel after those days,” declares Yahweh: “I will put my teachings inside them, and I will write those teachings on their hearts. I will be their Elohim, and they will be my people. 34 No longer will each person teach his neighbors or his relatives by saying, ‘Know Yahweh.’ All of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me,” declares Yahweh, “because I will forgive their wickedness and I will no longer hold their sins against them.”

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13 The Lord declares, “On that day a fountain will be opened for David’s family and for those who live in Jerusalem to wash away their sin and stain.

False Prophets Will Be Judged

“On that day,” declares Yahweh Tsebaoth, “I will wipe away the names of the idols from the land. They will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the false prophets and the unclean[a] spirit from the land.

“If a man still prophesies, his father and his mother, who gave birth to him, will say, ‘You don’t deserve to live because you speak lies in the name of Yahweh.’ Then his father and his mother, who gave birth to him, will stab him when he prophesies.

“On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies. He won’t deceive people by dressing like a prophet in a coat made of hair. He will say, ‘I am not a prophet. I’m a farmer. I’ve owned this land since I was a child.’

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 13:2 “Unclean” refers to anything that Moses’ Teachings say is not presentable to God.

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