Old/New Testament
9 Do not rejoice for joy, O Israel, as other people. For you have gone a whoring from your God. You have loved a reward upon every grain floor.
2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them. And the new wine shall fail in her.
3 They will not dwell in the LORD’s land. But Ephraim will return to Egypt. And they will eat unclean things in Assyria.
4 They shall not offer wine to the LORD. Nor shall their sacrifices be pleasant to Him. But they shall be as the bread of mourners. All who eat of it shall be polluted. For their bread for their souls shall not come into the House of the LORD.
5 What will you do, then, on the solemn day, and on the day of the Feast of the LORD?
6 For lo, they have gone from destruction. Egypt shall gather them up and Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess the pleasant places of their silver. Thorns shall be in their tabernacles.
7 The days of visitation have come. The days of recompense have come. Israel shall know it. The Prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, because of the multitude of your iniquity. Therefore the hatred is great.
8 The watchman of Ephraim is with my God. The Prophet is the snare of a bird catcher in all his ways, and hatred is in the House of his God.
9 They are deeply set. They are corrupt, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will visit their sins.
10 “I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of a fig tree in her first season. But they went to Baal Peor and separated themselves to that shame. And abominations were according to their lovers.
11 “Ephraim, their glory, shall flee away like a bird, from the birth and from the womb and from the conception.
12 “Though they bring up their children, I will deprive them of being men. Yea, woe to them when I depart from them!
13 “Ephraim, as I saw, is as a tree in Tyre, planted in a cottage. But Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.”
14 O LORD, give them—what will You give them? Give them a barren womb and dry breasts.
15 “All their wickedness is in Gilgal. For there I hated them for the wickedness of their inventions. I will cast them out of My House. I will love them no longer. All their princes are rebels.
16 “Ephraim is stricken! Their root is dried up! They can bring no fruit! Yea, though they bring forth, I will kill even the dearest of their body.”
17 My God will cast them away because they did not obey Him. And they shall wander among the nations.
10 Israel is an empty vine. It has brought forth fruit for itself. According to the multitude of its fruit, it has increased its altars. According to the goodness of its land, it has made fair images.
2 Their heart is divided. They shall now be found faulty. He shall break down their altars. He shall destroy their images.
3 For now they shall say, “We have no king because we did not fear the LORD. And what would a king do for us?”
4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant. Thus, judgment grows as wormwood in the furrows of the field.
5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calf of Beth Aven. For its people shall mourn over it, as well as its Chemarims, who cried over it because of its glory and because it has departed.
6 It shall also be brought to Assyria, as a present for King Jareb. Ephraim shall receive shame and Israel shall be ashamed of its own counsel.
7 Of Samaria, its king is destroyed, as the foam upon the water.
8 Also, the high places of Aven shall be destroyed, the sin of Israel. The thorn and the thistle shall grow upon their altars. And they shall say to the mountains, “Cover us,” and to the hills, “Fall upon us.”
9 “O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah! There they stood. The battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not touch them.
10 “It is My desire that I should chastise them. And the people shall be gathered against them when they shall gather themselves in their two furrows.
11 “And Ephraim is as a heifer that delights in threshing. But I will pass by her fair neck. I will make Ephraim ride. Judah shall plow and Jacob shall break his clods.”
12 Sow for yourselves in righteousness. Reap after the measure of mercy. Break up your fallow ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and rains righteousness upon you.
13 You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, because you trusted in your own ways and in the multitude of your strong men.
14 Therefore, a tumult shall arise among your people. And all your munitions shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the days of battle. The mother, with the children, was dashed in pieces.
15 So shall Bethel do to you, because of your malicious wickedness. The king of Israel shall be destroyed in a morning.
11 “When Israel was a child, then I loved him and called My son out of Egypt.
2 “As they called them, they went from them. They sacrificed to Baal and burnt incense to images.
3 “I also led Ephraim, bearing them in My Arms. But they did not know that I healed them.
4 “I led them with cords of a man, with bands of love. And I was to them as one who takes off the yoke from their jaws. And I gently fed them.
5 “He shall no longer return into the land of Egypt. But Assyria shall be his king because they refused to convert.
6 “And the sword shall fall on his cities, and shall consume its bars and devour them, because of their own counsels.
7 “And My people are bent to rebellion against Me. Though they called them to the Most High, no one at all would exalt.
8 “How shall I give you up, Ephraim? Shall I deliver you, Israel? How shall I make you as Admah? Shall I set you as Zeboim? My Heart has turned within Me. My compassions are kindled.
9 “I will not execute the fierceness of My wrath. I will not return to destroy Ephraim. For I am God, and not man, the Holy One in the midst of you. And I will not enter into the city.
10 “They shall walk after the LORD. He shall roar like a lion. When He shall roar, the children of the West shall fear.
11 “They shall fear as a sparrow out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria. And I will place them in their houses,” says the LORD.
12 “Ephraim surrounds Me with lies, and the House of Israel with deceit. But Judah still rules with God and is faithful with the saints.”
3 And write to the angel of the Church which is at Sardis: “These things say He Who has the seven spirits of God, and the seven stars: ‘I know your works. For you have the reputation that you live, but you are dead.
2 ‘Be awake! And strengthen the things which remain that are ready to die! For I have not found your work perfect before God.
3 ‘Therefore, remember what you have received and heard. And hold fast and repent. If, therefore, you will not watch, I will come on you as a thief. And you shall not know what hour I will come upon you.
4 ‘Notwithstanding, you still have a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their garments. And they shall walk with Me in white. For they are worthy.
5 ‘He who overcomes shall be clothed in white array. And I will not blot his name out from the Book of Life. But I will confess his name before My Father, and before His angels.
6 ‘Let him who has an ear, hear what the Spirit says to the Churches.’”
7 “And write to the angel of the Church which is of Philadelphia: ‘These things say He Who is Holy and True; Who has the key of David which opens and no man shuts, and shuts and no man opens.
8 ‘I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door. And no one can shut it. For you have a little strength and have kept My Word and have not denied My Name.
9 ‘Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan; who call themselves Jews and are not; but lie. Behold, I say, I will make them come and worship before your feet. And they shall know that I have loved you.
10 ‘Because you have kept the Word of My patience, therefore I will deliver you from the hour of trial, which will come upon all the world to try those who dwell upon the Earth.
11 ‘Behold, I come shortly. Hold that which you have, so that no one take your crown.
12 ‘He who overcomes I will make a pillar in the Temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. And I will write upon him the Name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, which is the New Jerusalem; which comes down out of Heaven from My God. And I will write upon him My new Name.
13 ‘Let he who has an ear, hear what the Spirit says to the Churches.’”
14 “And to the angel of the Church of the Laodiceans write: ‘These things says the Amen; the faithful and true Witness; the beginning of the creatures of God.
15 ‘I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I desire that you were either cold or hot.
16 ‘Therefore, because you are lukewarm - and neither cold nor hot – I am about to spew you out of My mouth.
17 ‘For you say, “I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing,” and do not know how wretched and miserable you are, and poor and blind and naked.
18 ‘I counsel you to buy from Me gold tried by the fire, so that you may be made rich; and white raiment, so that you may be clothed and that your filthy nakedness does not appear. And anoint your eyes with eye salve, so that you may see.
19 ‘As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be zealous, therefore, and repent.
20 ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice, and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me.
21 ‘To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, even as I overcame and sit with My Father on His throne.
22 ‘Let he who has an ear, hear what the Spirit says to the Churches.’”
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