Bible in 90 Days

9 In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes; who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;

² In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood by the books of Jeremiah, the Prophet, the number of the years in which the LORD said He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

³ And I turned my face to the Lord God, and sought by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

⁴ And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made my confession, saying, “Oh Lord God, Who are great and fearful, and keep Covenant and mercy toward those who love You, and toward those who keep Your Commandments,

⁵ “we have sinned and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly. Yea, we have rebelled, and have departed from your Precepts, and from your Judgments.

⁶ “For we would not obey your servants, the Prophets; who spoke in your name to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

⁷ “O Lord, righteousness belongs to you; and to us, open shame, as appears this day to every man of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem; yea, to all Israel, both near and far off, through all the country where you have driven them because of the offenses they have committed against you.

⁸ “O Lord, to us belongs open shame – to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers - because we have sinned against You.

⁹ “Yet compassion and forgiveness is in the Lord our God, even though we have rebelled against him.

¹⁰ “For we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God; to walk in his laws, which he has laid before us, by the ministry of his servants, the Prophets.

¹¹ “Yea, all Israel has transgressed your Law, and has turned back, and has not heard your voice. Therefore, the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.

¹² “And he has confirmed his words which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great plague. For under the whole heaven has there not been such as has been brought upon Jerusalem.

¹³ “All this plague has come upon us, as it is written in the Law of Moses. Yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand your truth.

¹⁴ “Therefore, the LORD has made ready the plague, and brought it upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he does. For we would not hear his voice.

¹⁵ “And now, O Lord our God, who has brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand - and has gotten yourself renown, as appears this day - we have sinned. We have done wickedly.

¹⁶ “O Lord, according to all your righteousness, I beg you, let your anger and your wrath be turned away from your city, Jerusalem, your holy Mountain. Because of our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people are a reproach to all that are around us.

¹⁷ “Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of your servant, and his supplications. And for the Lord’s sake, cause your face to shine upon your Sanctuary, which lies in ruins.

¹⁸ “O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city whereupon your Name is called. For we do not present our supplications before you for our own righteousness, but for your great tender mercies.

¹⁹ “O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, consider, and do it! Do not delay, for your own sake, O my God. For your Name is called upon your city, and your people.”

²⁰ And while I was speaking and praying, and confessing my sin, and the sin of my people Israel, and presented my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy Mountain of my God;

²¹ Yea, while I was speaking in prayer, the man, Gabriel, whom I had seen before in the vision, came flying, and touched me about the time of the evening offering.

²² And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, “O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you knowledge and understanding.

²³ “At the beginning of your supplications, the commandment came forth. And I have come to show you, for you are greatly beloved. Therefore, understand the matter and consider the vision.

²⁴ “Seventy weeks are determined upon your people, and upon your holy city; to finish the wickedness, and to seal up the sins, and to reconcile the iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

²⁵ “Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandment to build and restore the people, and to build Jerusalem to Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. And the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in a troublesome time.

²⁶ “And after sixty-two weeks, Messiah shall be killed, and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince that shall come, shall destroy the city and the Sanctuary. And the end thereof shall be with a flood. And until the end of the battle, it shall be destroyed by desolations.

²⁷ “And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week. And in the midst of the week, he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. And on the wing of the abominations, shall he make it desolate; even until the consummation determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”

10 In the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, a thing was revealed to Daniel (whose name was called Belteshazzar). And the word was true, but the time appointed was long. And he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.

² At the same time I, Daniel, was in heaviness for three weeks of days.

³ I ate no pleasant bread, nor came flesh or wine into my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, till three weeks of days were fulfilled.

⁴ And on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of that great river, Hiddekel,

⁵ I lifted my eyes, and looked. And behold, there was a man clothed in linen, whose waist was bound with fine gold of Uphaz.

⁶ His body also was like the Chrysolite; and his face like the lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire. And his arms and his feet had the color of polished brass. And the voice of his words was like the voice of a multitude.

⁷ And I, Daniel, alone, saw the vision. For the men who were with me, saw not the vision. But a great fear fell upon them, so that they fled away and hid themselves.

⁸ Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision. And there remained no strength in me. For the strength in me was corrupted, and I retained no power.

⁹ Yet heard I the voice of his words. And when I heard the voice of his words, I slept on my face. And my face was toward the ground.

¹⁰ And behold, a hand touched me which set me up upon my knees, and upon the palms of my hands.

¹¹ And he said to me, “O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak to you. And stand in your place. For to you am I now sent.” And when he had said this word to me, I stood trembling.

¹² Then he said to me, “Fear not, Daniel. For from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. And I have come because of your words.

¹³ “But the prince of the kingdom of Persia resisted me twenty-one days. But lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me. And I remained there by the kings of Persia.

¹⁴ “Now I have come to show you what shall come to your people in the latter days. For the vision is for many days yet to come.”

¹⁵ And when he spoke these words to me, I set my face toward the ground, and held my tongue.

¹⁶ And behold, one looking similar to the sons of man touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth, and spoke, and said to him who stood before me, “O my lord, by the vision my sorrows have returned upon me. And I have retained no strength.

¹⁷ “For how can the servant of this, my lord, talk with my lord, being such one? For there now remains no strength in me, nor is there breath left in me.”

¹⁸ Then there came again one having the appearance of a man, who touched me, and strengthened me,

¹⁹ And said, “O man, greatly beloved, fear not. Peace be to you. Be strong and of good courage.” And when he had spoken to me, I was strengthened, and said, “Let my lord speak. For you have strengthened me.”

²⁰ Then he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? But now I will return to fight with the Prince of Persia. And when I have gone forth, lo, the Prince of Greece shall come.

²¹ “But I will show you that which is decreed in the Scripture of truth. And there is no one who upholds me in these things except Michael, your prince.”

11 Also, I, in the first year of Darius of the Medes, stood to encourage and strengthen him.

² And now I will show you the truth. Behold, there shall stand up three kings in Persia. And the fourth shall be far richer than them all. And by his strength, and by his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece.

³ But a mighty king shall stand up, who shall rule with great dominion and do according to his pleasure.

⁴ And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken. And it shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven, and not for his posterity, nor according to his dominion, with which he ruled. For his kingdom shall be uprooted, even for others besides these.

⁵ And the king of the South shall be mighty, as well as one of his princes. And they shall prevail against him, and bear rule. His dominion shall be a great dominion.

⁶ And after some years, they shall be joined together. For the king’s daughter of the South shall come to the king of the North, to make an agreement. But she shall not retain the power of her position. Nor shall he continue, or his power. But she shall be delivered to death at that time, and those who brought her, and he who fathered her, and he who strengthened her.

⁷ But out of the bud of her roots shall one stand up in his place; who shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the North, and do with them as he pleases. And he shall prevail.

⁸ And he shall also carry their gods, captives, into Egypt, with their molten images, and their precious vessels of silver and of gold. And he shall continue more years than the king of the North.

⁹ So the king of the South shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land.

¹⁰ Therefore, his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a mighty, great army. And one shall come and overwhelm, and pass through. Then shall he return to his fortress to provoke strife.

¹¹ And the king of the South shall be angry, and shall come forth, and fight with him; even with the king of the North. For he shall set forth a great multitude. And the multitude shall be given into his hand.

¹² Then the multitude shall be carried away. And his heart shall be lifted up. For he shall cast down thousands, but he still shall not prevail.

¹³ For the king of the North shall return with a greater multitude than before, and shall come forth (after certain years) with a mighty army, and great riches.

¹⁴ And at the same time, many shall stand up against the king of the South. Also, the rebellious children of your people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision. But they shall fall.

¹⁵ So the king of the North shall come and build a siege mound, and take the strong city. And the armies of the South shall not resist, nor his chosen people; nor shall there be any strength to withstand.

¹⁶ But he who shall come, shall do to him as he pleases, and no one shall stand against him. And he shall stand in the pleasant land; which, by his hand, shall be completed.

¹⁷ Again he shall set his face to enter, with the power of his whole kingdom, including his confederates. Thus shall he do. And he shall give him the daughter of women to destroy her. But she shall neither stand at his side, nor be for him.

¹⁸ After this, shall he turn his face to the coastlands, and shall take many. But a prince shall cause his reproach to be removed; and moreover, shall cause him to turn.

¹⁹ For he shall turn his face toward the forts of his own land. But he shall be overthrown and fall, and be found no more.

²⁰ Then shall stand up in his place, in the glory of the kingdom, one that shall raise taxes. But after a few days, he shall be destroyed, though neither in anger nor in battle.

²¹ And in his place, shall stand up a vile person; to whom they shall not give the honor of the kingdom. But he shall come in peaceably and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

²² And the armies shall be overthrown like a flood, before him, and shall be broken; and also the prince of the covenant.

²³ And after an alliance is made with him, he shall work deceitfully. For he shall come up, and overcome with a small force.

²⁴ He shall enter into the quiet and plentiful province, and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers. He shall divide among them the prey and the spoil and the substance. Yea, and he shall make his plans against the strongholds, but only for a time.

²⁵ Also, he shall stir up his power, and his courage against the king of the South, with a great army. And the king of the South shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army. But he shall not stand. For they shall plan and scheme against him.

²⁶ Yea, those who feed upon the portion of his food, shall destroy him. And his army shall be swept away. And many shall fall, and be killed.

²⁷ And both these kings’ hearts shall be to do evil. And they shall talk of deceit at the same table. But it shall not happen. For the end shall still be at the time appointed.

²⁸ Then shall he return into his land with great riches. But his heart shall be moved against the holy covenant, and he shall do damage and return to his own land.

²⁹ At the time appointed, he shall return, and come toward the South. But the last shall not be as the first.

³⁰ For the ships of Chittim shall come against him. Therefore, he shall be sorry and return with anger toward the holy covenant. So shall he do damage, and return, and identify with those who forsake the holy covenant.

³¹ And armies shall stand on his part. And they shall pollute the Sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice. And they shall set up the abominable desolation.

³² And those who wickedly break the covenant, shall he cause to sin with flattery. But the people who do know their God, shall prevail and prosper.

³³ And those who understand among the people, shall instruct many. Still, they shall fall by sword, and by flame; by captivity and by spoil, for many days.

³⁴ Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help. But many shall still cling to the hypocrisy. And some of them of understanding shall fall - to help them, and to purge, and to make them white - till the time comes. For there is a time appointed.

³⁶ And the king shall do what he pleases. He shall exalt himself, and magnify himself against all that is God; and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods; and shall prosper, till the wrath be accomplished. For the determination is made.

³⁷ Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desires of women, nor care for any God. For he shall magnify himself above all.

³⁸ But in his place, shall he honor the god, Mauzzim. And the god whom his fathers knew not, shall he honor with gold and with silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.

³⁹ Thus shall he do in the holds of Mauzzim, with a strange god whom he shall acknowledge. He shall increase his glory, and shall cause those who honor him to rule over many; and shall divide the land for gain.

⁴⁰ And at the end of time, shall the king of the South gore him. And the king of the North shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships. And he shall enter into the countries, and shall overwhelm, and pass through.

⁴¹ He shall enter also into the beautiful land. And many countries shall be overthrown. But these shall escape out of his hand: Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.

⁴² He shall also stretch forth his hands upon the countries. And the land of Egypt shall not escape.

⁴³ For he shall have power over the treasures of gold, and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt. And the Libyans, and the Ethiopians, shall follow in his footsteps.

⁴⁴ But the news out of the East and the North shall trouble him. Therefore, he shall go forth with great wrath to destroy and root out many.

⁴⁵ And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas on the glorious and holy mountain. Yet, he shall come to his end. And no one shall help him.

12 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince, who stands for the children of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there began to be a nation until that same time. And at that time, your people shall be delivered; everyone who shall be found written in the book.

² And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake; some to everlasting life, and some to shame and perpetual contempt.

³ And those who are wise, shall shine; as the brightness of the sky. And those who turn many to righteousness, shall shine as the stars, forever and ever.

⁴ But you, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, till the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro. And knowledge shall be increased.

⁵ Then I, Daniel, looked. And behold, there stood two others: one on this side of the riverbank, and the other on the other side of the riverbank.

⁶ And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was upon the waters of the river, “When shall the end of these wonders come?”

⁷ And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever, that it shall be for a time, two times, and half a time. And when he shall have shattered the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.

⁸ Though I heard it, I did not understand. Then I said, “O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?”

⁹ And he said, “Go your way, Daniel. For the words are closed up, and sealed, till the end of the time.

¹⁰ “Many shall be purified, made white, and tried. But the wicked shall do wickedly. And none of the wicked shall have understanding. But the wise shall understand.

¹¹ “And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abominable desolation set up, there shall be a thousand, two hundred and ninety days.

¹² “Blessed is he who and comes and awaits the thousand, three hundred and thirty-five days.

¹³ But go your way, till the end. For you shall rest, and arise for your portion, at the end of days.”

1 The Word of the LORD that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel.

² At the beginning, the LORD spoke by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea: “Go. Take to you a wife of fornications, and children of fornications. For the land has committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.”

³ So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, who conceived and bore him a son.

⁴ And the LORD said to him: “Call his name Jezreel. For in a little while, I will visit the blood of Jezreel upon the House of Jehu and will make the kingdom of the House of Israel cease.

⁵ “And at that time, I will also break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.”

⁶ She conceived yet again and bore a daughter. And God said to him, “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah. For I will no longer have pity upon the House of Israel. But I will utterly take them away.

⁷ “Yet I will have mercy upon the House of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow or by sword or by battle, by horses or by horsemen.”

⁸ Now, when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived and bore a son.

⁹ Then God said: “Call his name Lo-Ammi. For you are not My people. Therefore, I will not be Yours.

¹⁰ “Still, the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or told. And in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ it shall be said to them, ‘You are the sons of the living God.’

¹¹ “Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together to appoint themselves one head. And they shall come up out of the land. For great is the day of Jezreel.”

2 “Say to your brethren, ‘Ammi,’ and to your sisters, ‘Ruhamah!’

² “Plead with your mother. Plead! For she is not My wife, nor am I her Husband. But let her take away her fornications out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts,

³ “lest I strip her naked and set her as in the day that she was born and make her as a wilderness and leave her like a dry land and kill her for thirst.

⁴ “And I will have no pity upon her children. For they are the children of fornication.

⁵ “For their mother has played the harlot. She who conceived them has done shamefully. For she said, ‘I will go after your lovers who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

⁶ “Therefore, behold. I will hedge your way with thorns, so that she shall not find her paths.

⁷ “Though she follows after her lovers, she shall not overtake them. Though she seeks them, she shall not find them. Then she shall say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband. for I was better off at that time than now.’

⁸ “Now, she did not know that I gave her grain, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they bestowed upon Baal.

⁹ “Therefore, I will return and take away My grain in its time, and My wine in its season, and will recover My wool and My flax, to cover her shame.

¹⁰ “And now I will discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers. And no man shall deliver her out of My Hand.

¹¹ “I will also cause all her joy to cease, her Feast days, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her solemn Feasts.

¹² “And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, ‘These are my rewards that my lovers have given me.’ And I will make them as a forest. And the wild beasts shall eat them.

¹³ “And I will visit the days of Baal upon her, during which she burnt incense to them. And she adorned herself with her earrings and her jewels. And she followed her lovers, and forgot Me,” says the LORD.

¹⁴ “Therefore behold, I will allure her and bring her into the wilderness and speak friendly to her.

¹⁵ “And I will give her her vineyards from there, and the Valley of Achor for a door of hope. And she shall sing there as in the days of her youth, and as on the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁶ “And at that time,” says the LORD, “you shall call me Ishi, and shall no longer call me Baali.

¹⁷ “For I will take the names of Baal out of her mouth. And they shall no longer be remembered by their names.

¹⁸ “And on that day, I will make a Covenant for them with the wild beasts, and with the birds of the heaven, and with that which creeps upon the earth. And I will break the bow and the sword and the battle from the Earth and will make them sleep safely.

¹⁹ “And I will marry you to Me forever. Yea, I will marry you to Me in righteousness and in judgment and in mercy and in compassion.

²⁰ “I will even marry you to Me in faithfulness. And you shall know the LORD.

²¹ “And on that day, I will hear,” says the LORD, “I will hear the heavens. And they shall hear the Earth.

²² “And the Earth shall hear the grain and the wine and the oil. And they shall hear Jezreel.

²³ “And I will sow her to Me in the earth. And I will have mercy upon her who was not pitied. And I will say to those who were not My people, ‘You are My people.’ And they shall say, ‘You are my God.’”

3 Then the LORD said to me, “Go again. Love a woman (beloved by her husband, but also a harlot) according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, though they looked to other gods and loved the wine bottles.”

² So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a homer of barley, and a half homer of barley.

³ And I said to her, “You shall abide with me for many days. You shall not play the harlot and you shall not have another man. And I will be so to you.”

⁴ For the children of Israel shall remain without a king and without a prince for many days, and without an offering and without an image and without an ephod and without Teraphim.

⁵ Afterward, the children of Israel shall convert and seek the LORD their God and David, their king, and shall fear the LORD and His goodness in the latter days.

4 Hear the Word of the LORD, you children of Israel! For the LORD has a dispute with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth or mercy or knowledge of God in the land:

² “By swearing and lying and killing and stealing and whoring, they break out. And blood touches blood.

³ “Therefore the land shall mourn. And everyone who dwells in it shall be cut off, with the beasts of the field and with the birds of the heaven. And the fish of the sea shall also be taken away.

⁴ “Still, let no one rebuke or reprove another. For you people are as those who rebuke the priest.

⁵ “Therefore, you shall fall in the day. And the Prophet shall fall with you in the night. And I will destroy your mother.

⁶ “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have refused knowledge, I will also refuse you, so that you shall be no priest to Me. And seeing you have forgotten the Law of your God, I will also forget your children.

⁷ “As they were increased, so they sinned against Me. I will change their glory into shame.

⁸ “They eat up the sins of My people and lift up their minds in their iniquity.

⁹ “And it shall be ‘like people, like priest’. For I will visit their ways upon them and reward them for their deeds.

¹⁰ “For they shall eat and not have enough. They shall commit adultery and shall not increase, because they have ceased obeying the LORD.

¹¹ “Whoredom and wine and new wine take away their heart.

¹² “My people ask counsel at their wooden idols. And their staff teaches them. For the spirit of fornications has caused them to err. And they have gone a whoring from under their God.

¹³ “They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains and burn incense upon the hills, under the oaks and the poplar tree and the elm, because their shadows are good. Therefore, your daughters shall be harlots. And your spouses shall be whores.

¹⁴ “I will not visit your daughters when they are harlots, or your spouses when they are whores. For they themselves are separated with harlots and sacrifice with whores. Therefore, the people who do not understand shall fall.

¹⁵ “Though you, Israel, play the harlot, do not let Judah sin. Do not come to Gilgal, or go up to Beth Aven, or swear, ‘The LORD lives.’

¹⁶ “For Israel is as rebellious as an unruly heifer. Now, the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

¹⁷ “Ephraim has joined to idols. Let him alone.

¹⁸ “Their drunkenness stinks. They have committed whoredom. Their rulers dearly love shameful ways.

¹⁹ “The wind has bound them up in her wings. And they shall be ashamed of their sacrifices.”

5 “O you priests, hear this! And listen, O House of Israel! And give ear, O House of the king! For judgment is toward you, because you have been a snare on Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor!

² “And the rebels are deep in the slaughter, though I have been a Rebuker of them all.

³ “I know Ephraim. And Israel is not hidden from Me. For now, O Ephraim, you have become a harlot. Israel is defiled!”

⁴ They will not give their minds to turn to their God. For the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them. And they have not known the LORD.

⁵ And the pride of Israel testifies to His Face. Therefore, Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquity. Judah shall also fall with them.

⁶ They shall go with their sheep, and with their bullocks, to seek the LORD. But they shall not find Him. He has withdrawn Himself from them.

⁷ They have transgressed against the LORD. For they have begotten strange children. Now, a month shall devour them with their portions.

⁸ “Blow the trumpet in Gibeah, the shame in Ramah! Cry out at Beth Aven, ‘Behind you, O Benjamin!’

⁹ “Ephraim shall be desolate on the day of rebuke! I have caused the truth to be known among the tribes of Israel.

¹⁰ “The princes of Judah were like those who remove a boundary. I will pour out My wrath upon them like water.

¹¹ “Ephraim is oppressed, broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after man’s commandment.

¹² “Therefore, I will be to Ephraim as a moth, and to the House of Judah as rottenness.

¹³ “When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to King Jareb. Yet, he could not heal you or cure you of your wound.

¹⁴ “For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a lion’s whelp to the House of Judah. I, even I, will tear and go away. I will take away and no one shall rescue it.

¹⁵ “I will go and return to My place, until they acknowledge their fault and seek Me in their affliction. They will seek me diligently.”

6 Come and let us return to the LORD. For He has torn and He will heal us. He has wounded us and He will bind us up.

² After two days, He will revive us. On the third day, He will raise us up and we shall live in His sight.

³ Then we shall have knowledge and endeavor to know the LORD. His going forth is prepared as the morning. And He shall come to us as the rain, as the latter rain, to the earth.

⁴ “O Ephraim, what shall I do with you? O Judah, how shall I entreat you? For your goodness is as a morning cloud. And as the morning dew it goes away.

⁵ “Therefore, I have cut them down by the Prophets. I have killed them by the Words of My Mouth. And the judgments of you were as the light that goes forth.

⁶ “For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than Burnt Offerings.

⁷ “But they, like men, have transgressed the Covenant. There they have trespassed against Me.

⁸ “Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity, polluted with blood.

⁹ “And as the thieves wait for a man, the company of priests murder on the way by consent. For they work mischief.

¹⁰ “I have seen villainy in the House of Israel. The whoredom of Ephraim is there. Israel is defiled.

¹¹ “Indeed, Judah, a harvest is set for you when I shall return My people from captivity.”

7 “When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria. For they have dealt falsely. And the thief comes in and the robber plunders outside.

² “And they do not consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own inventions have surrounded them. They are in My sight.

³ “They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

⁴ “They are all adulterers, like bakers who cease to heat an oven after kneading the dough, until it is leavened.

⁵ “In the day of the king, the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine. He stretches out his hand to scorners.

⁶ “For they have made ready their heart like an oven while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all night. In the morning it burns as a flame of fire.

⁷ “They are all as hot as an oven and have devoured their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to Me.

⁸ “Ephraim has mixed himself among the people. Ephraim is as an unturned cake on the hearth.

⁹ “Strangers have devoured his strength and he does not know it. Yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he does not know.

¹⁰ “And the pride of Israel testifies to his face. And they do not return to the LORD their God or seek Him for all this.

¹¹ “Also, Ephraim is like a dove, deceived, without heart. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

¹² “When they shall go, I will spread My net upon them and draw them down as the birds of the heaven. I will chastise them, as their Congregation has heard.

¹³ “Woe to them! For they have fled away from Me. Destruction to them, because they have transgressed against Me. Though I have redeemed them, they have still spoken lies against Me.

¹⁴ “And they have not cried to Me with their hearts when they howled upon their beds. They assembled themselves for grain and wine. They rebel against Me.

¹⁵ “Though I have bound and strengthened their arm, they still imagine mischief against Me.

¹⁶ “They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a deceitful bow. Their princes shall fall by the sword because of the rage of their tongues. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.”

8 “Set the trumpet to your mouth! He shall come as an eagle against the House of the LORD, because they have transgressed My Covenant and trespassed against My Law.

² “Israel shall cry to Me, ‘My God, we know You!’

³ “Israel has cast off the thing that is good. The enemy shall pursue him.

⁴ “They have set up a king, but not by Me. They have made princes, and I did not know it. They have made themselves idols from their silver and their gold. Therefore, they shall be destroyed.

⁵ “Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off. My anger is kindled against them. How long will they be without innocence!

⁶ “For it came from Israel. The workman made it. Therefore, it is not God. But the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

⁷ “For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. It has no stalk. The bud shall bring forth no meal. If it is brought forth, the strangers shall devour it.

⁸ “Israel is devoured! They shall now be among the Gentiles, as a vessel in which there is no pleasure.

⁹ “For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey, alone by himself. Ephraim has hired lovers.

¹⁰ “Yet, although they have hired among the nations, I will now gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king and the princes.

¹¹ “Because Ephraim has made many altars for sin, his altars shall be for sin.

¹² “I have written the great things of My Law for them, but they were counted as a strange thing.

¹³ “They sacrifice flesh for the Sacrifices of My Offerings and eat it. The LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and visit their sins. They shall return to Egypt.

¹⁴ “For Israel has forgotten his maker and builds temples. And Judah has increased strong cities. But I will send a fire upon his cities. And it shall devour its palaces.”

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.”

12 Ephraim is fed with the wind and follows after the East wind. He increases daily lies and destruction. And they make a covenant with Assyria. And oil is carried into Egypt.

² Also, the LORD has a dispute with Judah and will visit Jacob, according to His ways. According to His works, will He recompense him.

³ He took his brother by the heel in the womb; and by his strength he contended with God

⁴ and had power over the Angel and prevailed. He wept and prayed to Him. He found Him in Bethel. And He spoke with us there.

⁵ Yea, the LORD God of Hosts. The LORD is His own memorial.

⁶ Therefore, turn to your God! Keep mercy and judgment and continue to hope in your God.

⁷ Canaan! The balances of deceit are in his hand. He loves to oppress.

⁸ And Ephraim said, “Nevertheless, I am rich! I have found wealth for myself in all my labors! They shall find no iniquity in me that is wickedness.”

⁹ “Though I am the LORD your God, from the land of Egypt, yet will I make you dwell in the tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn Feast.

¹⁰ “I have also spoken by the Prophets. And I have multiplied visions and used similitudes by the ministry of the Prophets.”

¹¹ Is there iniquity in Gilead? Surely, they are worthless. They sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal. And their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field.

¹² And Jacob fled into the country of Aram. And Israel served for a wife. And for a wife he kept sheep.

¹³ And by a Prophet, the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt. And by a Prophet he was preserved.

¹⁴ Ephraim provoked Him with high places. Therefore, his blood shall be poured upon him. And his LORD shall reward him with his reproach.

13 When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel. But he has sinned in Baal and is dead.

² And now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, idols according to their own understanding. They were all the work of the craftsmen. They say one to another while they sacrifice a man, “Let them kiss the calves.”

³ Therefore, they shall be as the morning cloud and as the morning dew that passes away, as the chaff that is driven with a whirlwind out of the floor and as the smoke that goes out of the chimney.

⁴ “Yet I am the LORD your God, from the land of Egypt. And you shall know no God but Me. For there is no Savior beside Me.

⁵ “I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.

⁶ “As in their pastures, were they filled. They were filled and their hearts were exalted. Therefore, they have forgotten Me.