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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.
7 “And I will be to them as a lion, as a leopard on the way of Assyria.
8 “I will meet them as a bear that is robbed of her whelps. And I will tear open their chests. And there will I devour them like a lion. The wild beasts shall tear them.
9 “O Israel, one has destroyed you! But in Me is your help.
10 “I will be your King. Where is your king who would help you in all your cities, and your judges of whom you said, ‘Give me a king and princes’?
11 “I gave you a king in My anger. And I took him away in My wrath.
12 “The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up. His sin is hidden.
13 “The sorrows of a woman in labor shall come upon him. He is an unwise son, or else he would not stand still at the time of the breaking forth of the children.
14 “I will redeem them from the power of the grave. I will deliver them from death. O death, I will be your death! O grave, I will be your destruction! Sorrow shall be hidden from My Eyes.”
15 Though he grew up among his brethren, an East wind shall come. The wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness and dry up his vein. And his fountain shall be dried up. He shall plunder the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
14 Samaria shall be desolate. For she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword. Their infants shall be dashed in pieces. And their women with child shall be ripped open.
2 O Israel, return to the LORD your God! For you have fallen by your iniquity!
3 Take words with you and turn to the LORD, and say to Him, “Take away all iniquity and receive us graciously. So will we render the calves of our lips.
4 “Assyria shall not save us. Nor will we ride upon horses. Nor will we say anymore to the work of our hands, ‘You are our gods.’ For in You the fatherless finds mercy.”
5 “I will heal their rebellion. I will love them freely. For My anger has turned away from him.
6 “I will be as the dew to Israel. He shall grow as the lily and fasten his roots as the trees of Lebanon.
7 “His branches shall spread. And his beauty shall be as the olive tree and his smell as Lebanon.
8 “Those who dwell under his shadow shall return. They shall revive as grain and flourish as the vine. Their scent shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
9 “Ephraim shall say, ‘What have I to do anymore with idols?’ I shall hear him and look upon him. I am like a green fir tree. Upon Me your fruit is found.
10 “Who is wise and shall understand these things, prudent and shall know them? For the ways of the LORD are righteous and the just shall walk in them. But the wicked shall fall therein.”
1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called and sanctified by God the Father, and reserved to Jesus Christ:
2 Mercy to you, and peace and love be multiplied.
3 Beloved, while I diligently wrote to you of the common salvation, it became necessary for me to write to you in exhortation, so that you would earnestly contend for the faith which was once and for all given to the saints.
4 For some men have crept in who were long ago pre-ordained to this condemnation; ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into debauchery, and deny God, the only Lord and our Lord Jesus Christ.
5 Therefore, I will remind you (since you once knew this) how that the Lord - after He had delivered the people out of Egypt - destroyed those afterward who did not believe.
6 Also, the angels who did not keep their first estate - but left their own habitation - He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness until the judgment of the great Day;
7 as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them which committed fornication and followed strange flesh in the same way they did are set forth as an example and suffer the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 Likewise also, these dreamers defile the flesh and despise government and speak evil of those who are in authority.
9 Yet Michael, the archangel, when he strove against the devil and disputed about the body of Moses, did not dare speak evil against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
10 But these speak evil of those things which they do not know. And whatever things they know naturally (as beasts which are without reason), in those things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe to them! For they have followed the way of Cain and are cast away by the deceit of Balaam’s wages, and perish in the rebellion of Korah!
12 These are reefs in your feasts of charity; feasting with you, shamelessly feeding themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by winds; corrupt trees without fruit, twice dead and plucked up by the roots.
13 They are the raging waves of the sea, foaming forth their own disgrace. They are wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
14 And Enoch also - the seventh from Adam - prophesied of such, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with thousands of his saints
15 to give judgment against all, and to rebuke all the ungodly among them of all their wicked deeds which they have ungodly committed; and of all their cruel speech which wicked sinners have spoken against Him.”
16 These are murmurers, complainers (walking after their own lusts), whose mouths speak proud things; admiring others for the sake of advantage.
17 But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
18 how that they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19 These are those who cause division from others; bestial, not having the Spirit.
20 But you, beloved, edify yourselves in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost.
21 And keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto eternal life.
22 And have compassion on some, making distinctions.
23 But save others with fear, pulling them out of the fire. And hate even the garment which is defiled by the flesh.
24 Now to Him Who is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His Glory, with joy;
25 to God - only wise, our Savior - be glory and majesty and dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.
127 Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless the LORD keeps the city, the keeper watches in vain.
2 It is in vain for you to rise early, to lie down late, and eat the bread of sorrow; but He will surely give rest to His beloved.
3 Behold, children are the inheritance of the LORD, the fruit of the womb His reward.
4 As the arrows in the hand of the strong man are the children of youth.
5 Blessed is the man who has his quiver full of them. They shall not be ashamed when they speak with enemies in the gate. A song of degrees
15 The rod and correction give wisdom. But a child left to himself makes his mother ashamed.
16 When the wicked are increased, transgression increases. But the righteous shall see their fall.
17 Correct your son and he will give you rest; and will give pleasures to your soul.
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