The Daily Audio Bible
Today's audio is from the NLT. Switch to the NLT to read along with the audio.
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.
5 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And everyone who loves Him Who begat, also loves him who is begotten of Him.
2 In this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His Commandments.
3 For this is the love of God: that we keep His Commandments. And His Commandments are not burdensome.
4 For all that is born of God overcomes this world. And this is that victory that has overcome this world: our faith.
5 Who is it that overcomes this world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
6 This is that Jesus Christ Who came by water and blood - not by water only, but by water and blood - and it is that Spirit that bears witness. For that Spirit is Truth.
7 For there are Three Who bear record in Heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. And these Three are One.
8 And there are Three Who bear record on the Earth: the Spirit and the Water and the Blood. And these Three agree in One.
9 If we receive the witness of man, the witness of God is greater. For this is the witness of God which He testified about His Son:
10 The one who believes in that Son of God, has the witness in himself. The one who does not believe God, has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the record that God witnessed of His Son.
11 And this is that record: that God has given us eternal life. And this life is in His Son.
12 The one who has that Son, has that life. And the one who does not have that Son of God, does not have that life.
13 These things I have written to you who believe in the Name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life (and that you may believe in the Name of the Son of God).
14 And this is that assurance that we have in Him: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
15 And if we know that He hears us - whatever we ask - we know that we have the petitions that we have desired from Him.
16 If anyone sees his brother sin a sin that does not lead to death, let him ask, and He shall give him life for those whose sin does not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death. I do not say that you should pray for that.
17 All unrighteousness is sin. But there is sin that does not lead to death.
18 We know that whoever is born of God does not sin. But the one who is begotten of God guards himself. And the wicked one does not touch him.
19 We know that we are of God, and this whole world lies in wickedness.
20 But we know that the Son of God has come and has given us a mind to know Him Who is true. And we are in Him Who is true; in His Son Jesus Christ. The same is that very God and that Eternal Life.
21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
124 If the LORD had not been on our side, (may Israel now say)
2 If the LORD had not been on our side when men rose up against us,
3 they would have swallowed us up quickly when their wrath was kindled against us.
4 Then, the waters had drowned us; the stream had gone over our soul:
5 Then, the swelling waters had gone over our soul.
6 Praise the LORD, Who has not given us as a prey to their teeth!
7 Our soul has escaped, even as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers. The snare is broken and we are delivered.
8 Our help is in the Name of the LORD, Who has made Heaven and Earth. A song of degrees
5 A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.
6 An evil man is ensnared by his transgression. But the righteous sings and rejoices.
7 The righteous know the cause of the poor. The wicked do not discern knowledge.
8 Scoffers ensnare a city. But wise men turn away wrath.
© 2019, 2024 by Five Talents Audio. All rights reserved.