Hosea 1-3

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Hosea’s Wife and Children

1 The word of the Lord which came to ^(A)Hosea the son of Beeri, during the days of ^(B)Uzziah, ^(C)Jotham, ^(D)Ahaz, and ^(E)Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the days of ^(F)Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

²When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “^(G)Go, take for yourself a wife ^[a]inclined to infidelity, and children of infidelity; for ^(H)the land commits flagrant infidelity, ^[b]abandoning the Lord.” ³So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and ^(I)bore him a son. ⁴And the Lord said to him, “Name him ^(J)Jezreel; for in just a little while ^(K)I will ^[c]punish the house of Jehu for the bloodshed of Jezreel, and ^(L)I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel. ⁵On that day I will ^(M)break the bow of Israel in the ^(N)Valley of Jezreel.”

⁶Then she conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. And ^[d]the Lord said to him, “Name her ^[e]Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer ^(O)take pity on the house of Israel, that I would ever forgive them. ⁷But I will take ^(P)pity on the house of Judah and ^(Q)save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by ^(R)bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”

⁸When she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and gave birth to a son. ⁹And ^[f]the Lord said, “Name him ^[g]Lo-ammi, because you are not My people, and I am not ^[h]your God.”

¹⁰^[i]Yet the number of the sons of Israel
Will be like the ^(S)sand of the sea,
Which cannot be measured or counted;
And ^(T)in the place
Where it is said to them,
“You are ^(U)not My people,”
It will be said to them,
“You are the ^(V)sons of the living God.”
¹¹And the ^(W)sons of Judah and the sons of Israel will be ^(X)gathered together,
And they will appoint for themselves ^(Y)one leader,
And they will go up from the land,
For the day of Jezreel will be great.

Israel’s Unfaithfulness Condemned

2 ^[j]Say to your brothers, “^[k]Ammi,” and to your sisters, “^[l]Ruhamah.”

²“Dispute with your mother, ^(Z)dispute,
Because she is ^(AA)not my wife, and I am not her husband;
But she must remove her ^(AB)infidelity from her face
And her adultery from between her breasts,
³Otherwise, I will strip her ^(AC)naked
And expose her as on the ^(AD)day she was born.
I will also ^(AE)make her like a wilderness,
Make her like desert land,
And put her to death with ^(AF)thirst.
⁴Also, I will take no pity on her children,
Because they are ^(AG)children of infidelity.
⁵For their mother has ^(AH)committed prostitution;
She who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, ‘^(AI)I will go after my lovers,
Who ^(AJ)give me my bread and my water,
My wool and my flax, my ^(AK)oil and my drink.’
⁶Therefore, behold, I will ^(AL)obstruct ^[m]her way with ^(AM)thorns,
And I will build ^[n]a stone wall against her so that she cannot find her ^(AN)paths.
⁷And she will ^(AO)pursue her lovers, but she will not reach them;
And she will seek them, but will not find them.
Then she will say, ‘^(AP)I will go back to my ^(AQ)first husband,
Because it was ^(AR)better for me then than now!’

⁸“Yet she does ^(AS)not know that it was ^(AT)I myself who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil,
And lavished on her silver and gold,
Which they ^[o]used for Baal.
⁹Therefore, I will ^[p]^(AU)take back My grain at ^[q]harvest time
And My new wine in its season.
I will also take away My wool and My flax
That I gave to cover her nakedness.
¹⁰So now I will ^(AV)uncover her ^[r]lewdness
Before the eyes of her lovers,
And no one will rescue her from My hand.
¹¹I will also ^(AW)put an end to all her joy,
Her ^(AX)feasts, her ^(AY)new moons, her Sabbaths,
And all her festivals.
¹²And I will ^(AZ)destroy her vines and fig trees,
Of which she said, ‘They are my wages for prostitution
Which my lovers have given me.’
And I will ^(BA)turn them into a forest,
And the ^(BB)animals of the field will devour them.
¹³I will punish her for the ^(BC)days of the Baals
When she used to ^[s]^(BD)offer sacrifices to them
And ^(BE)adorn herself with her nose ring and jewelry,
And follow her lovers, so that she ^(BF)forgot Me,” declares the Lord.

Restoration of Israel

¹⁴“Therefore, behold, I am going to persuade her,
^(BG)Bring her into the wilderness,
And speak ^[t]kindly to her.
¹⁵Then I will give her her ^(BH)vineyards from there,
And ^(BI)the ^[u]Valley of Achor as a door of hope.
And she will ^[v]^(BJ)respond there as in the days of her youth,
As in the ^(BK)day when she went up from the land of Egypt.
¹⁶And it will come about on that day,” declares the Lord,
“That you will call Me ^[w]^(BL)my husband
And no longer call Me my ^[x]Baal.
¹⁷For ^(BM)I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth,
So that they will no longer be ^[y]mentioned by their names.
¹⁸On that day I will also make a covenant for them
With the ^(BN)animals of the field,
The birds of the sky,
And the crawling things of the ground.
And I will ^[z]^(BO)eliminate the bow, the sword, and war from the land,
And will let them ^(BP)lie down in safety.
¹⁹I will ^(BQ)betroth you to Me forever;
Yes, I will betroth you to Me in ^(BR)righteousness and in justice,
In favor and in compassion,
²⁰And I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness.
Then you will ^(BS)know the Lord.

²¹“And it will come about on that day that ^(BT)I will respond,” declares the Lord.
“I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth,
²²And the ^(BU)earth will respond to the grain, to the new wine, and to the oil,
And they will respond to ^[aa]Jezreel.
²³I will ^(BV)sow her for Myself in the land.
^(BW)I will also have compassion on ^[ab]her who had not obtained compassion,
And ^(BX)I will say to ^[ac]those who were ^(BY)not My people,
‘You are My people!’
And ^[ad]they will say, ‘You are my God!’”

Hosea’s Redemption of Gomer

3 Then the Lord said to me, “Go again, love ^[ae]a woman who is loved by her ^[af]husband, yet is committing adultery, ^(BZ)as the Lord loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love ^[ag]raisin ^(CA)cakes.” ²So I ^(CB)purchased her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver, and a ^[ah]homer and a ^[ai]lethech of barley. ³Then I said to her, “You shall ^(CC)live with me for many days. You shall not play the prostitute, nor shall you have another man; so I will also be toward you.” ⁴For the sons of Israel will live for many days ^(CD)without a king or leader, ^(CE)without sacrifice or ^(CF)memorial stone, and without ^(CG)ephod or ^[aj]^(CH)household idols. ⁵Afterward the sons of Israel will ^(CI)return and seek the Lord their God and ^(CJ)David their king; and ^(CK)they will come trembling to the Lord and to His goodness in the last days.

Footnotes

Hosea 1:2 Lit of infidelity; or fornication
Hosea 1:2 Lit away from
Hosea 1:4 Lit visit the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu
Hosea 1:6 Lit He
Hosea 1:6 I.e., not having obtained mercy
Hosea 1:9 Lit He
Hosea 1:9 I.e., not my people
Hosea 1:9 Lit yours
Hosea 1:10 Ch 2:1 in Heb
Hosea 2:1 Ch 2:3 in Heb
Hosea 2:1 I.e., my people
Hosea 2:1 I.e., she has obtained compassion
Hosea 2:6 As in some ancient versions; MT your
Hosea 2:6 Lit her stone wall so that
Hosea 2:8 Or made into the
Hosea 2:9 Lit return and take My
Hosea 2:9 Lit its time
Hosea 2:10 Or shame
Hosea 2:13 Or burn incense
Hosea 2:14 Lit upon her heart
Hosea 2:15 Lit Valley of Trouble
Hosea 2:15 Or give answer
Hosea 2:16 Heb Ishi
Hosea 2:16 Also meaning husband in Heb, besides a name for false gods
Hosea 2:17 Or remembered
Hosea 2:18 Lit break
Hosea 2:22 I.e., God sows
Hosea 2:23 Heb Lo-ruhamah
Hosea 2:23 Heb Lo-ammi
Hosea 2:23 Lit he
Hosea 3:1 I.e., Gomer
Hosea 3:1 Lit companion
Hosea 3:1 Used in idolatry
Hosea 3:2 About 7.7 cubic feet or 0.22 cubic meters
Hosea 3:2 About 3.8 cubic feet or 0.11 cubic meters
Hosea 3:4 Heb teraphim

1 John 5

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Overcoming the World

5 ^(A)Everyone who believes that Jesus is the ^[a]Christ has been ^(B)born of God, and everyone who loves the ^[b]Father ^(C)loves the child born of Him. ²^(D)By this we know that ^(E)we love the children of God, when we love God and ^[c]follow His commandments. ³For ^(F)this is the love of God, that we ^(G)keep His commandments; and ^(H)His commandments are not burdensome. ⁴For ^[d]whoever has been ^(I)born of God ^(J)overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.

⁵Who is the one who overcomes the world, but the one who ^(K)believes that Jesus is the Son of God? ⁶This is the One who came ^(L)by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not ^[e]with the water only, but ^[f]with the water and ^[g]with the blood. It is ^(M)the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. ⁷For there are ^(N)three that testify: ⁸^[h]the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are ^[i]in agreement. ⁹^(O)If we receive the testimony of people, the testimony of God is greater; for the testimony of God is this, that ^(P)He has testified concerning His Son. ¹⁰The one who believes in the Son of God ^(Q)has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has ^(R)made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning His Son. ¹¹And the testimony is this, that God has given us ^(S)eternal life, and ^(T)this life is in His Son. ¹²^(U)The one who has the Son has the life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.

This Is Written That You May Know

¹³^(V)These things I have written to you who ^(W)believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have ^(X)eternal life. ¹⁴This is ^(Y)the confidence which we have ^[j]before Him, that, ^(Z)if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. ¹⁵And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, ^(AA)we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.

¹⁶If anyone sees his brother or sister ^[k]committing a sin not leading to death, ^(AB)he shall ask and ^[l]God will, for him, give life to those who commit sin not leading to death. ^(AC)There is sin leading to death; ^(AD)I am not saying that he should ask about that. ¹⁷^(AE)All unrighteousness is sin, and ^(AF)there is sin not leading to death.

¹⁸^(AG)We know that ^(AH)no one who has been born of God ^[m]sins; but He who was born of God ^(AI)keeps him, and ^(AJ)the evil one does not ^(AK)touch him. ¹⁹^(AL)We know that ^(AM)we are of God, and that ^(AN)the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. ²⁰And ^(AO)we know that ^(AP)the Son of God has come, and has ^(AQ)given us understanding so that we may know ^(AR)Him who is true; and we ^(AS)are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. ^(AT)This is the true God and ^(AU)eternal life.

²¹^(AV)Little children, guard yourselves from ^(AW)idols.

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Footnotes

1 John 5:1 I.e., Messiah
1 John 5:1 Lit one who has fathered
1 John 5:2 Lit do
1 John 5:4 Lit everything that
1 John 5:6 Lit in
1 John 5:6 Lit in
1 John 5:6 Lit in
1 John 5:8 A few late mss add ...in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. And there are three that testify on earth, the Spirit
1 John 5:8 Lit for the one thing
1 John 5:14 Lit toward
1 John 5:16 Lit sinning
1 John 5:16 Or God will give him life, that is, to those who...
1 John 5:18 Or sins continually

Psalm 124

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Praise for Rescue from Enemies.

A Song of Ascents, of David.

124 “^(A)Had it not been the Lord who was on our side,”
^(B)Let Israel say,
²“Had it not been the Lord who was on our side
When people rose up against us,
³Then they would have ^(C)swallowed us alive,
When their ^(D)anger was kindled against us;
⁴Then the ^(E)waters would have flooded over us,
The stream would have ^[a]swept over our souls;
⁵Then the ^(F)raging waters would have ^[b]swept over our souls.”

⁶Blessed be the Lord,
Who has not given us ^[c]to be ^(G)torn by their teeth.
⁷Our souls have ^(H)escaped ^(I)like a bird from the trapper’s ^(J)snare;
The snare is broken and we have escaped.
⁸Our ^(K)help is in the name of the Lord,
Who ^(L)made heaven and earth.

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Footnotes

Psalm 124:4 Or passed over
Psalm 124:5 Or passed over
Psalm 124:6 Lit as a prey to

Proverbs 29:5-8

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⁵A man who ^(A)flatters his neighbor
Is spreading a net for his steps.
⁶By wrongdoing an evil person is ^(B)ensnared,
But the righteous ^(C)sings and rejoices.
⁷The ^(D)righteous ^[a]is concerned for the rights of the poor;
The wicked does not understand such ^[b]concern.
⁸Arrogant people ^(E)inflame a city,
But ^(F)wise people turn away anger.