Psalm 88

English Standard Version

I Cry Out Day and Night Before You

A Song. A Psalm of ^(A)the Sons of Korah. To the choirmaster: according to ^(B)Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil^[a] of ^(C)Heman the Ezrahite.

88 O Lord, ^(D)God of my salvation,
I ^(E)cry out day and night before you.
²Let my prayer come before you;
^(F)incline your ear to my cry!

³For my soul is full of troubles,
    and ^(G)my life draws near to ^(H)Sheol.
⁴I am counted among those who ^(I)go down to the pit;
    I am a man who has no strength,
⁵like one set loose among the dead,
    like the slain that lie in the grave,
like those whom ^(J)you remember no more,
    for they are ^(K)cut off from your hand.
⁶You have put me in ^(L)the depths of the pit,
    in the ^(M)regions dark and ^(N)deep.
⁷Your wrath ^(O)lies heavy upon me,
    and you overwhelm me with ^(P)all your waves. Selah

⁸You have caused ^(Q)my companions to shun me;
    you have made me ^(R)a horror^[b] to them.
I am ^(S)shut in so that I cannot escape;
⁹    ^(T)my eye grows dim through sorrow.
Every day I call upon you, O Lord;
    I ^(U)spread out my hands to you.
¹⁰Do you work wonders for the dead?
    ^(V)Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah
¹¹Is your steadfast love declared in the grave,
    or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
¹²Are your ^(W)wonders known in ^(X)the darkness,
    or your righteousness in the land of ^(Y)forgetfulness?

¹³But I, O Lord, cry ^(Z)to you;
    ^(AA)in the morning my prayer comes before you.
¹⁴O Lord, why ^(AB)do you cast my soul away?
    Why ^(AC)do you hide your face from me?
¹⁵Afflicted and close to death from my youth up,
    I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.^[c]
¹⁶Your wrath has swept over me;
    your ^(AD)dreadful assaults destroy me.
¹⁷They ^(AE)surround me like a flood ^(AF)all day long;
    they ^(AG)close in on me together.
¹⁸You have caused ^(AH)my beloved and my friend to shun me;
    my companions have become darkness.^[d]

Footnotes

Psalm 88:1 Probably musical or liturgical terms
Psalm 88:8 Or an abomination
Psalm 88:15 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
Psalm 88:18 Or darkness has become my only companion

Hosea 2

English Standard Version

Israel's Unfaithfulness Punished

2 ^[a] Say to your brothers, ^(A)“You are my people,”^[b] and to your sisters, ^(B)“You have received mercy.”^[c]

²“Plead with your mother, plead—
    for ^(C)she is not my wife,
    and I am not her husband—
that she put away ^(D)her whoring from her face,
    and her adultery from between her breasts;
³lest ^(E)I strip her naked
    and make her as ^(F)in the day she was born,
and ^(G)make her like a wilderness,
    and make her like a parched land,
    and kill her with thirst.
⁴^(H)Upon her children also I will have no mercy,
    ^(I)because they are children of whoredom.
⁵For ^(J)their mother has played the whore;
    she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For ^(K)she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
    who ^(L)give me my bread and my water,
    my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
⁶Therefore ^(M)I will hedge up her^[d] way with thorns,
    and ^(N)I will build a wall against her,
    so that she cannot find her paths.
⁷She shall pursue her lovers
    but not overtake them,
and she shall seek them
    but shall not find them.
^(O)Then she shall say,
    ‘I will go and return to ^(P)my first husband,
    ^(Q)for it was better for me then than now.’
⁸And ^(R)she did not know
    that it was ^(S)I who gave her
    ^(T)the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and who lavished on ^(U)her silver and gold,
    ^(V)which they used for Baal.
⁹Therefore ^(W)I will take back
    my grain in its time,
    and my wine in its season,
and ^(X)I will take away my wool and my flax,
    which were to cover her nakedness.
¹⁰Now ^(Y)I will uncover her lewdness
    in the sight of her lovers,
    and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.
¹¹^(Z)And I will put an end to all her mirth,
    her feasts, her ^(AA)new moons, her ^(AB)Sabbaths,
    and all her ^(AC)appointed feasts.
¹²And ^(AD)I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
    ^(AE)of which she said,
‘These are ^(AF)my wages,
    which my lovers have given me.’
I will make them a forest,
    ^(AG)and the beasts of the field shall devour them.
¹³And ^(AH)I will punish her for ^(AI)the feast days of the Baals
    when she burned offerings to them
and ^(AJ)adorned herself with her ring and jewelry,
    and went after her lovers
    and forgot me, declares the Lord.

The Lord's Mercy on Israel

¹⁴“Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
    and ^(AK)bring her into the wilderness,
    and ^(AL)speak tenderly to her.
¹⁵And there I will give her her vineyards
    and make the Valley of Achor^[e] a door of hope.
And there she shall answer ^(AM)as in the days of her youth,
    as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁶“And ^(AN)in that day, declares the Lord, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’ ¹⁷For ^(AO)I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more. ¹⁸And ^(AP)I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And ^(AQ)I will abolish^[f] the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in ^(AR)safety. ¹⁹And I will betroth you to me ^(AS)forever. ^(AT)I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. ²⁰^(AU)I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And ^(AV)you shall know the Lord.

²¹“And ^(AW)in that day ^(AX)I will answer, declares the Lord,
    I will answer the heavens,
    and they shall answer the earth,
²²and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil,
    and they shall answer ^(AY)Jezreel,^[g]
²³    and ^(AZ)I will sow her for myself in the land.
And ^(BA)I ^(BB)will have mercy on No Mercy,^[h]
    and ^(BC)I will say to Not My People,^[i] ^(BD)‘You are my people’;
    and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’”

Footnotes

Hosea 2:1 Ch 2:3 in Hebrew
Hosea 2:1 Hebrew ammi, which means my people
Hosea 2:1 Hebrew ruhama, which means she has received mercy
Hosea 2:6 Hebrew your
Hosea 2:15 Achor means trouble; compare Joshua 7:26
Hosea 2:18 Hebrew break
Hosea 2:22 Jezreel means God will sow
Hosea 2:23 Hebrew Lo-ruhama
Hosea 2:23 Hebrew Lo-ammi

John 7:25-52

English Standard Version

Can This Be the Christ?

²⁵Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, “Is not this the man whom ^(A)they seek to kill? ²⁶And here he is, ^(B)speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that ^(C)the authorities really know that this is the Christ? ²⁷But ^(D)we know ^(E)where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, ^(F)no one will know where he comes from.” ²⁸So Jesus proclaimed, ^(G)as he taught in the temple, ^(H)“You know me, and you know where I come from. But ^(I)I have not come of my own accord. ^(J)He who sent me is true, ^(K)and him you do not know. ²⁹^(L)I know him, for I come ^(M)from him, and ^(N)he sent me.” ³⁰^(O)So they were seeking to arrest him, but ^(P)no one laid a hand on him, ^(Q)because his hour had not yet come. ³¹Yet ^(R)many of the people believed in him. They said, ^(S)“When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?”

Officers Sent to Arrest Jesus

³²The Pharisees heard the crowd ^(T)muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent ^(U)officers to arrest him. ³³Jesus then said, ^(V)“I will be with you a little longer, and then ^(W)I am going to him who sent me. ³⁴^(X)You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come.” ³⁵The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? ^(Y)Does he intend to go to ^(Z)the Dispersion among ^(AA)the Greeks and teach the Greeks? ³⁶What does he mean by saying, ^(AB)‘You will seek me and you will not find me,’ and, ‘Where I am you cannot come’?”

Rivers of Living Water

³⁷^(AC)On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, ^(AD)“If anyone thirsts, let him ^(AE)come to me and drink. ³⁸Whoever believes in me, ^(AF)as^[a] the Scripture has said, ^(AG)‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of ^(AH)living water.’” ³⁹Now ^(AI)this he said about the Spirit, ^(AJ)whom those who believed in him were to receive, ^(AK)for as yet the Spirit had not been ^(AL)given, ^(AM)because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Division Among the People

⁴⁰When they heard these words, ^(AN)some of the people said, “This really is ^(AO)the Prophet.” ⁴¹Others said, “This is ^(AP)the Christ.” But some said, ^(AQ)“Is the Christ to come from Galilee? ⁴²Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes ^(AR)from the offspring of David, and comes ^(AS)from Bethlehem, the village ^(AT)where David was?” ⁴³So there was ^(AU)a division among the people over him. ⁴⁴^(AV)Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.

⁴⁵^(AW)The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?” ⁴⁶The officers answered, ^(AX)“No one ever spoke like this man!” ⁴⁷The Pharisees answered them, ^(AY)“Have you also been deceived? ⁴⁸^(AZ)Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him? ⁴⁹But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.” ⁵⁰^(BA)Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them, ⁵¹^(BB)“Does our law judge a man without first ^(BC)giving him a hearing and learning what he does?” ⁵²They replied, ^(BD)“Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that ^(BE)no prophet arises from Galilee.”