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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.”
1 The elder, To the elect Lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not only me but also all who have known the truth
2 for the truth’s sake, which dwells in us and shall be with us forever:
3 Grace be with you, mercy and peace, from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, with truth and love.
4 I rejoiced greatly that I found some of your children walking in truth, as per the Commandment we have received from the Father.
5 And now I encourage you, Lady, (not as writing a new Commandment to you, but the same which we had from the beginning) that we love one another.
6 And this is the love that we should walk in: His Commandments. This is the Commandment. As you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.
7 For many deceivers have entered into this world, who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. Such a one is a deceiver and an Antichrist.
8 Watch yourselves, so that we do not lose the things which we have done. But that we may receive a full reward.
9 Whoever transgresses, and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ, does not have God. The one who continues in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son.
10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, neither greet him nor receive him into your house.
11 For the one who greets him shares in his evil deeds. Although I had many things to write to you, I would rather not write with paper and ink. But I trust to come to you and speak mouth to mouth, so that our joy may be full.
12 The sons of your elect Sister greet you. Amen.
125 Those who trust in the LORD shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed but remains forever.
2 As the mountains are around Jerusalem, so the LORD is around His people from henceforth and forever.
3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest on the lot of the righteous, lest the righteous put forth their hand to wickedness.
4 Do well, O LORD, to those who are good and true in their hearts.
5 But those who turn aside by their crooked ways, they shall be led by the LORD with the workers of iniquity. Peace upon Israel! A song of degrees, or Psalm, of David
9 If a wise man contends with a foolish man, whether he is angry or laughing, there is no rest.
10 Bloody men hate the upright. But the just seek out his soul.
11 A fool pours out his whole mind. But a wise man holds it back.
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