Hosea 9-10

New King James Version

Judgment of Israel’s Sin

9 Do^(A) not rejoice, O Israel, with joy like other peoples,
For you have played the harlot against your God.
You have made love for ^(B)hire on every threshing floor.
²The threshing floor and the winepress
Shall not feed them,
And the new wine shall fail in her.

³They shall not dwell in ^(C)the Lord’s land,
^(D)But Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
And ^(E)shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
⁴They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord,
Nor ^(F)shall their ^(G)sacrifices be pleasing to Him.
It shall be like bread of mourners to them;
All who eat it shall be defiled.
For their bread shall be for their own life;
It shall not come into the house of the Lord.

⁵What will you do in the appointed day,
And in the day of the feast of the Lord?
⁶For indeed they are gone because of destruction.
Egypt shall gather them up;
Memphis shall bury them.
^(H)Nettles shall possess their valuables of silver;
Thorns shall be in their tents.

⁷The ^(I)days of punishment have come;
The days of recompense have come.
Israel knows!
The prophet is a ^(J)fool,
^(K)The spiritual man is insane,
Because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity.
⁸The ^(L)watchman of Ephraim is with my God;
But the prophet is a ^[a]fowler’s snare in all his ways—
Enmity in the house of his God.
⁹^(M)They are deeply corrupted,
As in the days of ^(N)Gibeah.
He will remember their iniquity;
He will punish their sins.

¹⁰“I found Israel
Like grapes in the ^(O)wilderness;
I saw your fathers
As the ^(P)firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season.
But they went to ^(Q)Baal Peor,
And ^[b]separated themselves to that shame;
^(R)They became an abomination like the thing they loved.
¹¹As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird—
No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!
¹²Though they bring up their children,
Yet I will bereave them to the last man.
Yes, ^(S)woe to them when I depart from them!
¹³Just ^(T)as I saw Ephraim like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place,
So Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.”

¹⁴Give them, O Lord—
What will You give?
Give them ^(U)a miscarrying womb
And dry breasts!

¹⁵“All their wickedness is in ^(V)Gilgal,
For there I hated them.
Because of the evil of their deeds
I will drive them from My house;
I will love them no more.
^(W)All their princes are rebellious.
¹⁶Ephraim is ^(X)stricken,
Their root is dried up;
They shall bear no fruit.
Yes, were they to bear children,
I would kill the darlings of their womb.”

¹⁷My God will ^(Y)cast them away,
Because they did not obey Him;
And they shall be ^(Z)wanderers among the nations.

Israel’s Sin and Captivity

10 Israel ^(AA)empties his vine;
He brings forth fruit for himself.
According to the multitude of his fruit
^(AB)He has increased the altars;
According to the bounty of his land
They have embellished his sacred pillars.
²Their heart is ^(AC)divided;^[c]
Now they are held guilty.
He will break down their altars;
He will ruin their sacred pillars.

³For now they say,
“We have no king,
Because we did not fear the Lord.
And as for a king, what would he do for us?”
⁴They have spoken words,
Swearing falsely in making a covenant.
Thus judgment springs up ^(AD)like hemlock in the furrows of the field.

⁵The inhabitants of Samaria fear
Because of the ^(AE)calf^[d] of Beth Aven.
For its people mourn for it,
And ^[e]its priests shriek for it—
Because its ^(AF)glory has departed from it.
⁶The idol also shall be carried to Assyria
As a present for King ^(AG)Jareb.
Ephraim shall receive shame,
And Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

⁷As for Samaria, her king is cut off
Like a twig on the water.
⁸Also the ^(AH)high places of ^[f]Aven, ^(AI)the sin of Israel,
Shall be destroyed.
The thorn and thistle shall grow on their altars;
^(AJ)They shall say to the mountains, “Cover us!”
And to the hills, “Fall on us!”

⁹“O Israel, you have sinned from the days of ^(AK)Gibeah;
There they stood.
The ^(AL)battle in Gibeah against the children of ^[g]iniquity
Did not ^[h]overtake them.
¹⁰When it is My desire, I will chasten them.
^(AM)Peoples shall be gathered against them
When I bind them ^[i]for their two transgressions.
¹¹Ephraim is ^(AN)a trained heifer
That loves to thresh grain;
But I harnessed her fair neck,
I will make Ephraim ^[j]pull a plow.
Judah shall plow;
Jacob shall break his clods.”

¹²Sow for yourselves righteousness;
Reap in mercy;
^(AO)Break up your fallow ground,
For it is time to seek the Lord,
Till He ^(AP)comes and rains righteousness on you.

¹³^(AQ)You have plowed wickedness;
You have reaped iniquity.
You have eaten the fruit of lies,
Because you trusted in your own way,
In the multitude of your mighty men.
¹⁴Therefore tumult shall arise among your people,
And all your fortresses shall be plundered
As Shalman plundered Beth Arbel in the day of battle—
A mother dashed in pieces upon her children.
¹⁵Thus it shall be done to you, O Bethel,
Because of your great wickedness.
At dawn the king of Israel
Shall be cut off utterly.

Footnotes

Hosea 9:8 One who catches birds in a trap or snare
Hosea 9:10 Or dedicated
Hosea 10:2 Divided in loyalty
Hosea 10:5 Lit. calves, images
Hosea 10:5 idolatrous priests
Hosea 10:8 Lit. Idolatry or Wickedness
Hosea 10:9 So with many Heb. mss., LXX, Vg.; MT unruliness
Hosea 10:9 Or overcome
Hosea 10:10 Or in their two habitations
Hosea 10:11 Lit. to ride

Hebrews 9:16-28

New King James Version

The Mediator’s Death Necessary

¹⁶For where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. ¹⁷For ^(A)a testament is in force after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the testator lives. ¹⁸^(B)Therefore not even the first covenant was dedicated without blood. ¹⁹For when Moses had spoken every ^[a]precept to all the people according to the law, ^(C)he took the blood of calves and goats, ^(D)with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, ²⁰saying, ^(E)“This is the ^(F)blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.” ²¹Then likewise ^(G)he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry. ²²And according to the law almost all things are ^[b]purified with blood, and ^(H)without shedding of blood there is no ^[c]remission.

Greatness of Christ’s Sacrifice

²³Therefore it was necessary that ^(I)the copies of the things in the heavens should be ^[d]purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. ²⁴For ^(J)Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are ^[e]copies of ^(K)the true, but into heaven itself, now ^(L)to appear in the presence of God for us; ²⁵not that He should offer Himself often, as ^(M)the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another— ²⁶He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. ²⁷^(N)And as it is appointed for men to die once, ^(O)but after this the judgment, ²⁸so ^(P)Christ was ^(Q)offered once to bear the sins ^(R)of many. To those who ^(S)eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.