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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Wednesday December 9, 2020 (NIV)

Joel 1-3

1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel:

An Invasion of Locusts

2 (A)Hear this, (B)you elders;
give ear, (C)all inhabitants of the land!
(D)Has such a thing happened in your days,
or in the days of your fathers?
3 (E)Tell your children of it,
and let your children tell their children,
and their children to another generation.

4 What (F)the cutting locust left,
(G)the swarming locust has eaten.
What the swarming locust left,
(H)the hopping locust has eaten,
and what the hopping locust left,
(I)the destroying locust has eaten.

5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep,
and (J)wail, all you drinkers of wine,
because of (K)the sweet wine,
for it is cut off from your mouth.
6 For (L)a nation has come up against my land,
(M)powerful and beyond number;
(N)its teeth are lions' teeth,
and it has the fangs of a lioness.
7 It has laid waste my vine
and splintered my (O)fig tree;
it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down;
their branches are made white.

8 Lament like a virgin[a] (P)wearing sackcloth
for the bridegroom of her youth.
9 (Q)The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off
from the house of the Lord.
(R)The priests mourn,
(S)the ministers of the Lord.
10 The fields are destroyed,
(T)the ground mourns,
because (U)the grain is destroyed,
(V)the wine dries up,
the oil languishes.

11 (W)Be ashamed,[b] O tillers of the soil;
wail, O vinedressers,
for the wheat and the barley,
(X)because the harvest of the field has perished.
12 The vine dries up;
(Y)the fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
all the trees of the field are dried up,
and (Z)gladness dries up
from the children of man.

A Call to Repentance

13 (AA)Put on sackcloth and lament, (AB)O priests;
(AC)wail, O ministers of the altar.
Go in, (AD)pass the night in sackcloth,
(AE)O ministers of my God!
(AF)Because grain offering and drink offering
are withheld from the house of your God.

14 (AG)Consecrate a fast;
(AH)call a solemn assembly.
Gather (AI)the elders
and (AJ)all the inhabitants of the land
to the house of the Lord your God,
and cry out to the Lord.

15 Alas for the day!
(AK)For the day of the Lord is near,
and as destruction from the Almighty[c] it comes.
16 Is not the food cut off
before our eyes,
(AL)joy and gladness
from the house of our God?

17 (AM)The seed shrivels under the clods;[d]
the storehouses are desolate;
the granaries are torn down
because (AN)the grain has dried up.
18 How (AO)the beasts groan!
The herds of cattle are perplexed
because there is no pasture for them;
even the flocks of sheep suffer.[e]

19 To you, (AP)O Lord, I call.
(AQ)For fire has devoured
the pastures of the wilderness,
(AR)and flame has burned
all the trees of the field.
20 Even the beasts of the field (AS)pant for you
because the water brooks are dried up,
(AT)and fire has devoured
the pastures of the wilderness.

The Day of the Lord

2 (AU)Blow a trumpet in (AV)Zion;
sound an alarm on (AW)my holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
for (AX)the day of the Lord is coming; it is near,
2 (AY)a day of darkness and gloom,
(AZ)a day of clouds and thick darkness!
Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains
(BA)a great and powerful people;
(BB)their like has never been before,
nor will be again after them
through the years of all generations.

3 (BC)Fire devours before them,
and behind them a flame burns.
The land is like (BD)the garden of Eden before them,
but (BE)behind them a desolate wilderness,
and nothing escapes them.

4 (BF)Their appearance is like the appearance of horses,
and like war horses they run.
5 (BG)As with the rumbling of chariots,
they leap on the tops of the mountains,
like the crackling of (BH)a flame of fire
devouring the stubble,
(BI)like a powerful army
drawn up for battle.

6 Before them peoples are in anguish;
(BJ)all faces grow pale.
7 Like warriors they charge;
like soldiers they scale the wall.
They march each on his way;
they do not swerve from their paths.
8 They do not jostle one another;
(BK)each marches in his path;
they burst through the weapons
and are not halted.
9 (BL)They leap upon the city,
they run upon the walls,
(BM)they climb up into the houses,
(BN)they enter through the windows (BO)like a thief.

10 (BP)The earth quakes before them;
the heavens tremble.
(BQ)The sun and the moon are darkened,
and the stars withdraw their shining.
11 (BR)The Lord utters his voice
before (BS)his army,
for his camp is exceedingly great;
(BT)he who executes his word is powerful.
(BU)For the day of the Lord is (BV)great and very awesome;
(BW)who can endure it?

Return to the Lord

12 “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
(BX)“return to me with all your heart,
(BY)with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
13 and (BZ)rend your hearts and not (CA)your garments.”
Return to the Lord your God,
(CB)for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
(CC)and he relents over disaster.
14 (CD)Who knows whether he will not turn and relent,
and (CE)leave a blessing behind him,
(CF)a grain offering and a drink offering
for the Lord your God?

15 (CG)Blow the trumpet in Zion;
(CH)consecrate a fast;
call a solemn assembly;
16 gather the people.
(CI)Consecrate the congregation;
assemble the elders;
(CJ)gather the children,
even nursing infants.
(CK)Let the bridegroom leave his room,
and the bride her chamber.

17 (CL)Between the (CM)vestibule and the (CN)altar
(CO)let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep
and say, “Spare your people, O Lord,
and make not your heritage a reproach,
a byword among the nations.[f]
(CP)Why should they say among the peoples,
‘Where is their God?’”

The Lord Had Pity

18 (CQ)Then the Lord became jealous for his land
(CR)and had pity on his people.
19 The Lord answered and said to his people,
“Behold, (CS)I am sending to you
grain, wine, and oil,
(CT)and you will be satisfied;
and I will no more make you
a reproach among the nations.

20 “I will remove the northerner far from you,
and drive him into a parched and desolate land,
his vanguard[g] into (CU)the eastern sea,
and his rear guard[h] into (CV)the western sea;
(CW)the stench and foul smell of him will rise,
for he has done great things.

21 “Fear not, O land;
be glad and rejoice,
for (CX)the Lord has done great things!
22 Fear not, (CY)you beasts of the field,
for (CZ)the pastures of the wilderness are green;
(DA)the tree bears its fruit;
the fig tree and (DB)vine give their full yield.

23 (DC)“Be glad, O children of Zion,
and (DD)rejoice in the Lord your God,
for he has given (DE)the early rain for your vindication;
he has poured down for you abundant rain,
(DF)the early and (DG)the latter rain, as before.

24 “The threshing floors shall be full of grain;
the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
25 I will restore[i] to you the years
that (DH)the swarming locust has eaten,
(DI)the hopper, (DJ)the destroyer, and (DK)the cutter,
(DL)my great army, which I sent among you.

26 (DM)“You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied,
and praise the name of the Lord your God,
who has dealt wondrously with you.
And my people (DN)shall never again be put to shame.
27 (DO)You shall know that I am (DP)in the midst of Israel,
and that (DQ)I am the Lord your God (DR)and there is none else.
And my people (DS)shall never again be put to shame.

The Lord Will Pour Out His Spirit

28 [j] (DT)“And it shall come to pass afterward,
that (DU)I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh;
(DV)your sons and (DW)your daughters shall prophesy,
your old men shall dream dreams,
and your young men shall see visions.
29 (DX)Even on the male and female servants
in those days I will pour out my Spirit.

30 “And I will show (DY)wonders in the heavens and (DZ)on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. 31 (EA)The sun shall be turned to darkness, (EB)and the moon to blood, (EC)before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. 32 And it shall come to pass that (ED)everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. (EE)For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among (EF)the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.

The Lord Judges the Nations

3 [k] “For behold, (EG)in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 (EH)I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And (EI)I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land, 3 and (EJ)have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.

4 “What are you to me, (EK)O Tyre and Sidon, and all (EL)the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, (EM)I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily. 5 For (EN)you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.[l] 6 You have sold (EO)the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border. 7 Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and (EP)I will return your payment on your own head. 8 I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the (EQ)Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the Lord has spoken.”

9 Proclaim this among the nations:
(ER)Consecrate for war;[m]
stir up the mighty men.
Let all the men of war draw near;
let them come up.
10 (ES)Beat your plowshares into swords,
and (ET)your pruning hooks into spears;
let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”

11 (EU)Hasten and come,
all you surrounding nations,
and gather yourselves there.
(EV)Bring down your warriors, O Lord.
12 Let the nations stir themselves up
and come up to (EW)the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
(EX)for there I will sit to judge
all the surrounding nations.

13 (EY)Put in the sickle,
(EZ)for the harvest is ripe.
(FA)Go in, tread,
(FB)for the winepress is full.
The vats overflow,
for their evil is great.

14 Multitudes, multitudes,
in the valley of decision!
For (FC)the day of the Lord is near
in the valley of decision.
15 (FD)The sun and the moon are darkened,
and the stars withdraw their shining.

16 (FE)The Lord roars from Zion,
and (FF)utters his voice from Jerusalem,
(FG)and the heavens and the earth quake.
But the Lord is (FH)a refuge to his people,
a stronghold to the people of Israel.

The Glorious Future of Judah

17 (FI)“So you shall know that I am the Lord your God,
(FJ)who dwells in Zion, (FK)my holy mountain.
And Jerusalem shall be holy,
and (FL)strangers shall never again pass through it.

18 “And in that day
(FM)the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
and the hills shall flow with milk,
and (FN)all the streambeds of Judah
shall flow with water;
(FO)and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord
and water the Valley of (FP)Shittim.

19 (FQ)“Egypt shall become a desolation
and (FR)Edom a desolate wilderness,
(FS)for the violence done to the people of Judah,
because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 (FT)But Judah shall be inhabited forever,
and Jerusalem to all generations.
21 (FU)I will avenge their blood,
blood I have not avenged,[n]
(FV)for the Lord dwells in Zion.”

Footnotes:

  1. Joel 1:8 Or young woman
  2. Joel 1:11 The Hebrew words for dry up and be ashamed in verses 10–12, 17 sound alike
  3. Joel 1:15 Destruction sounds like the Hebrew for Almighty
  4. Joel 1:17 The meaning of the Hebrew line is uncertain
  5. Joel 1:18 Or are made desolate
  6. Joel 2:17 Or reproach, that the nations should rule over them
  7. Joel 2:20 Hebrew face
  8. Joel 2:20 Hebrew his end
  9. Joel 2:25 Or pay back
  10. Joel 2:28 Ch 3:1 in Hebrew
  11. Joel 3:1 Ch 4:1 in Hebrew
  12. Joel 3:5 Or palaces
  13. Joel 3:9 Or Consecrate a war
  14. Joel 3:21 Or I will acquit their bloodguilt that I have not acquitted

Cross references:

  1. Joel 1:2 : [Hos. 5:1]
  2. Joel 1:2 : ver. 14
  3. Joel 1:2 : ver. 14
  4. Joel 1:2 : [ch. 2:2]
  5. Joel 1:3 : [Ps. 78:4]
  6. Joel 1:4 : ch. 2:25; Amos 4:9
  7. Joel 1:4 : [Amos 7:1]; See Ex. 10:4
  8. Joel 1:4 : ch. 2:25; Ps. 105:34; Nah. 3:15
  9. Joel 1:4 : ch. 2:25; Ps. 78:46
  10. Joel 1:5 : [Isa. 24:11]
  11. Joel 1:5 : ch. 3:18; Isa. 49:26; Amos 9:13
  12. Joel 1:6 : ch. 2:2
  13. Joel 1:6 : ch. 2:2
  14. Joel 1:6 : [Rev. 9:7, 8]
  15. Joel 1:7 : [ver. 12]
  16. Joel 1:8 : [ver. 13]; See 2 Sam. 3:31
  17. Joel 1:9 : ver. 13; ch. 2:14
  18. Joel 1:9 : ch. 2:17; [Isa. 61:6; Ezek. 45:4]
  19. Joel 1:9 : ch. 2:17; [Isa. 61:6; Ezek. 45:4]
  20. Joel 1:10 : See Hos. 4:3
  21. Joel 1:10 : [Hos. 2:9]
  22. Joel 1:10 : [Hos. 2:9]
  23. Joel 1:11 : [Jer. 14:4]
  24. Joel 1:11 : ver. 17
  25. Joel 1:12 : [ver. 7]
  26. Joel 1:12 : Isa. 24:11; Jer. 48:33
  27. Joel 1:13 : [ver. 8; Jer. 4:8]
  28. Joel 1:13 : [See ver. 9 above]; ch. 2:17; [Isa. 61:6; Ezek. 45:4]
  29. Joel 1:13 : [ver. 8; Mic. 1:8]
  30. Joel 1:13 : [ver. 8; Jer. 4:8]
  31. Joel 1:13 : [See ver. 9 above]; ch. 2:17; [Isa. 61:6; Ezek. 45:4]
  32. Joel 1:13 : ver. 9; ch. 2:14
  33. Joel 1:14 : ch. 2:15, 16; See 2 Chr. 20:3
  34. Joel 1:14 : ch. 2:15, 16; See 2 Chr. 20:3
  35. Joel 1:14 : ver. 2
  36. Joel 1:14 : ver. 2
  37. Joel 1:15 : ch. 2:1, 11, 31; 3:14; Isa. 13:6, 9; Jer. 46:10; Ezek. 30:2, 3; Amos 5:18; Obad. 15; Zeph. 1:14, 15; Zech. 14:1; 2 Pet. 3:10
  38. Joel 1:16 : [Deut. 12:6, 7; 16:14, 15]
  39. Joel 1:17 : [Mal. 2:3]
  40. Joel 1:17 : ver. 11
  41. Joel 1:18 : ch. 2:22; [Jer. 12:4; Hos. 4:3]
  42. Joel 1:19 : Ps. 50:15
  43. Joel 1:19 : Jer. 9:10
  44. Joel 1:19 : Jer. 9:10
  45. Joel 1:20 : [Job 38:41; Ps. 104:21; 145:15]
  46. Joel 1:20 : [See ver. 19 above]; Jer. 9:10
  47. Joel 2:1 : ver. 15; Isa. 58:1; Hos. 5:8; Amos 3:6
  48. Joel 2:1 : See ch. 3:17
  49. Joel 2:1 : See ch. 3:17
  50. Joel 2:1 : See ch. 1:15
  51. Joel 2:2 : Amos 5:18, 20; Zeph. 1:15
  52. Joel 2:2 : Amos 5:18, 20; Zeph. 1:15
  53. Joel 2:2 : ch. 1:6; [ver. 11, 25]
  54. Joel 2:2 : [ch. 1:2]
  55. Joel 2:3 : ch. 1:19, 20
  56. Joel 2:3 : Gen. 2:8, 9; See Isa. 51:3
  57. Joel 2:3 : Zech. 7:14
  58. Joel 2:4 : Rev. 9:7
  59. Joel 2:5 : Rev. 9:9; [Nah. 3:2]
  60. Joel 2:5 : Isa. 5:24; 47:14; Obad. 18; Nah. 1:10
  61. Joel 2:5 : [See ver. 2 above]; ch. 1:6; [ver. 11, 25]
  62. Joel 2:6 : Nah. 2:10
  63. Joel 2:8 : Prov. 30:27
  64. Joel 2:9 : Isa. 33:4
  65. Joel 2:9 : [Jer. 9:21]
  66. Joel 2:9 : [Jer. 9:21]
  67. Joel 2:9 : [John 10:1]
  68. Joel 2:10 : ch. 3:16; [Ps. 18:7; Amos 8:8]
  69. Joel 2:10 : ch. 3:15; Isa. 13:10; Ezek. 32:7; Matt. 24:29; [Rev. 9:2]
  70. Joel 2:11 : ch. 3:16; [1 Thess. 4:16]
  71. Joel 2:11 : ver. 25
  72. Joel 2:11 : Rev. 18:8
  73. Joel 2:11 : See ch. 1:15
  74. Joel 2:11 : ver. 31
  75. Joel 2:11 : Mal. 3:2; [Num. 24:23]
  76. Joel 2:12 : Deut. 4:30; 1 Sam. 7:3; Jer. 4:1; Hos. 12:6
  77. Joel 2:12 : [1 Sam. 7:6]
  78. Joel 2:13 : [Ps. 34:18]
  79. Joel 2:13 : See Gen. 37:29
  80. Joel 2:13 : Ex. 34:6; Ps. 86:5, 15; Jonah 4:2
  81. Joel 2:13 : [Num. 23:19; Ezek. 24:14]
  82. Joel 2:14 : Jonah 3:9
  83. Joel 2:14 : Hag. 2:19; Mal. 3:10
  84. Joel 2:14 : ch. 1:9, 13
  85. Joel 2:15 : See ver. 1
  86. Joel 2:15 : See ch. 1:14
  87. Joel 2:16 : See Josh. 3:5
  88. Joel 2:16 : [2 Chr. 20:13]
  89. Joel 2:16 : [Deut. 24:5; Eccles. 3:5; Zech. 12:12-14; 1 Cor. 7:5]
  90. Joel 2:17 : Ezek. 8:16
  91. Joel 2:17 : 1 Kgs. 6:3; 2 Chr. 3:4
  92. Joel 2:17 : 2 Chr. 4:1
  93. Joel 2:17 : See ch. 1:9
  94. Joel 2:17 : Ps. 42:3; 79:10; 115:2
  95. Joel 2:18 : Zech. 1:14; 8:2
  96. Joel 2:18 : [Ps. 103:13]
  97. Joel 2:19 : [ch. 1:10; Ps. 4:7]; See Mal. 3:10-12
  98. Joel 2:19 : [ch. 1:10; Ps. 4:7]; See Mal. 3:10-12
  99. Joel 2:20 : Ezek. 47:18; Zech. 14:8
  100. Joel 2:20 : Zech. 14:8
  101. Joel 2:20 : Isa. 34:3; [Amos 4:10]
  102. Joel 2:21 : Ps. 126:2, 3
  103. Joel 2:22 : See ch. 1:18
  104. Joel 2:22 : [ch. 1:19]
  105. Joel 2:22 : [Zech. 8:12]
  106. Joel 2:22 : [Zech. 8:12]
  107. Joel 2:23 : Ps. 100:1, 2; Hab. 3:18; Zech. 10:7
  108. Joel 2:23 : Ps. 100:1, 2; Hab. 3:18; Zech. 10:7
  109. Joel 2:23 : Deut. 11:14; Jer. 5:24
  110. Joel 2:23 : Deut. 11:14; Jer. 5:24
  111. Joel 2:23 : Hos. 6:3
  112. Joel 2:25 : ch. 1:4
  113. Joel 2:25 : ch. 1:4
  114. Joel 2:25 : ch. 1:4
  115. Joel 2:25 : ch. 1:4
  116. Joel 2:25 : ver. 11
  117. Joel 2:26 : Lev. 25:19
  118. Joel 2:26 : [Isa. 49:23]
  119. Joel 2:27 : ch. 3:17
  120. Joel 2:27 : Hos. 11:9; See Ezek. 37:26
  121. Joel 2:27 : See Ex. 20:2
  122. Joel 2:27 : [Isa. 44:8]
  123. Joel 2:27 : [See ver. 26 above]; [Isa. 49:23]
  124. Joel 2:28 : ver. 28-32, cited Acts 2:17-21
  125. Joel 2:28 : Isa. 32:15; Ezek. 39:29; Zech. 12:10; John 7:39
  126. Joel 2:28 : [Acts 2:39]
  127. Joel 2:28 : [Acts 21:9]
  128. Joel 2:29 : [1 Cor. 12:13]
  129. Joel 2:30 : [Matt. 24:30; Luke 21:11]
  130. Joel 2:30 : [Matt. 24:30; Luke 21:11]
  131. Joel 2:31 : See ver. 10
  132. Joel 2:31 : Rev. 6:12
  133. Joel 2:31 : Mal. 4:5
  134. Joel 2:32 : Cited Rom. 10:13
  135. Joel 2:32 : Isa. 46:13; 59:20; Obad. 17
  136. Joel 2:32 : Jer. 31:7; Mic. 4:7; Zech. 8:12
  137. Joel 3:1 : Jer. 30:3
  138. Joel 3:2 : [Zeph. 3:8]; See Zech. 14:2-4
  139. Joel 3:2 : Isa. 66:16; Jer. 25:31
  140. Joel 3:3 : Obad. 11; Nah. 3:10
  141. Joel 3:4 : Isa. 23:1, 2; Jer. 47:4; Amos 1:9
  142. Joel 3:4 : [Ezek. 25:15, 16]
  143. Joel 3:4 : [Obad. 15]
  144. Joel 3:5 : [2 Chr. 21:16, 17]
  145. Joel 3:6 : [ver. 3]
  146. Joel 3:7 : [See ver. 4 above]; [Obad. 15]
  147. Joel 3:8 : See 1 Kgs. 10:1
  148. Joel 3:9 : [Mic. 3:5]
  149. Joel 3:10 : [Isa. 2:4]
  150. Joel 3:10 : [Isa. 2:4]
  151. Joel 3:11 : [Isa. 54:15]
  152. Joel 3:11 : [Zech. 14:5]
  153. Joel 3:12 : ver. 2
  154. Joel 3:12 : Ps. 96:13; 98:9; 110:6; Isa. 2:4; 3:13; Mic. 4:3
  155. Joel 3:13 : Rev. 14:15
  156. Joel 3:13 : [Jer. 51:33; Hos. 6:11; Matt. 13:30, 39; Mark 4:29; John 4:35; Rev. 14:15, 18]
  157. Joel 3:13 : Rev. 14:20; [Isa. 63:2, 3]
  158. Joel 3:13 : Rev. 14:20; [Isa. 63:2, 3]
  159. Joel 3:14 : See ch. 1:15
  160. Joel 3:15 : See ch. 2:10
  161. Joel 3:16 : ch. 2:11; Amos 1:2; [Jer. 25:30]
  162. Joel 3:16 : ch. 2:11; Amos 1:2; [Jer. 25:30]
  163. Joel 3:16 : ch. 2:10
  164. Joel 3:16 : Isa. 4:6; 25:4
  165. Joel 3:17 : ch. 2:27; [Ezek. 6:7]
  166. Joel 3:17 : ver. 21; [Ezek. 43:7]
  167. Joel 3:17 : ch. 2:1; Ps. 48:1; Isa. 65:11; Jer. 31:23
  168. Joel 3:17 : Isa. 52:1; Nah. 1:15; Zech. 14:21; [Rev. 21:27; 22:15]
  169. Joel 3:18 : Jer. 31:12; Amos 9:13
  170. Joel 3:18 : Isa. 30:25
  171. Joel 3:18 : Ezek. 47:1
  172. Joel 3:18 : See Num. 25:1
  173. Joel 3:19 : See Isa. 19:1-17
  174. Joel 3:19 : See Isa. 34:5
  175. Joel 3:19 : Obad. 10
  176. Joel 3:20 : Ps. 125:1, 2; Ezek. 37:25
  177. Joel 3:21 : Isa. 4:4; Ezek. 36:25, 29
  178. Joel 3:21 : [See ver. 17 above]; ver. 21; [Ezek. 43:7]
English Standard Version (ESV)

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Revelation 1

Prologue

1 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God (A)gave him (B)to show to his servants[a] the things that must soon take place. (C)He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, 2 (D)who bore witness to the word of God and to (E)the testimony of Jesus Christ, even (F)to all that he saw. 3 (G)Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, (H)for the time is near.

Greeting to the Seven Churches

4 John to the seven churches that are in Asia:

Grace to you and peace from (I)him (J)who is and (K)who was and who is to come, and from (L)the seven spirits who are before his throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ (M)the faithful witness, (N)the firstborn of the dead, and (O)the ruler of kings on earth.

To (P)him who loves us and (Q)has freed us from our sins by his blood 6 and made us (R)a kingdom, (S)priests to (T)his God and Father, to him be (U)glory and (V)dominion forever and ever. Amen. 7 Behold, (W)he is coming with the clouds, and (X)every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail[b] on account of him. Even so. Amen.

8 (Y)“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, (Z)“who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Vision of the Son of Man

9 I, John, your brother and (AA)partner in (AB)the tribulation and (AC)the kingdom and (AD)the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos (AE)on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. 10 (AF)I was in the Spirit (AG)on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice (AH)like a trumpet 11 saying, (AI)“Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”

12 Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw (AJ)seven golden lampstands, 13 and in the midst of the lampstands (AK)one like (AL)a son of man, (AM)clothed with a long robe and (AN)with a golden sash around his chest. 14 (AO)The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. (AP)His eyes were like a flame of fire, 15 (AQ)his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and (AR)his voice was like the roar of many waters. 16 (AS)In his right hand he held seven stars, (AT)from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and (AU)his face was like the sun shining (AV)in full strength.

17 (AW)When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But (AX)he laid his right hand on me, (AY)saying, “Fear not, (AZ)I am the first and the last, 18 and the living one. (BA)I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and (BB)I have the keys of Death and Hades. 19 (BC)Write therefore (BD)the things that you have seen, those that are and those that are to take place after this. 20 As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and (BE)the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and (BF)the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

Footnotes:

  1. Revelation 1:1 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface; likewise for servant later in this verse
  2. Revelation 1:7 Or mourn

Cross references:

  1. Revelation 1:1 : John 17:7, 8; [John 8:26; 14:10]
  2. Revelation 1:1 : ch. 22:6
  3. Revelation 1:1 : ch. 22:16
  4. Revelation 1:2 : John 19:35
  5. Revelation 1:2 : ch. 6:9; 12:17; 19:10; See 1 Cor. 1:6
  6. Revelation 1:2 : ver. 11, 19
  7. Revelation 1:3 : ch. 22:7; [Luke 11:28; John 8:51; 1 John 2:3]
  8. Revelation 1:3 : ch. 22:10; [1 John 2:18]; See Rom. 13:11
  9. Revelation 1:4 : ver. 8; ch. 4:8; Heb. 13:8
  10. Revelation 1:4 : Ex. 3:14 (Gk.)
  11. Revelation 1:4 : John 1:1
  12. Revelation 1:4 : ch. 3:1; 4:5; 5:6
  13. Revelation 1:5 : ch. 3:14; John 18:37; 1 Tim. 6:13; [ch. 2:13; Ps. 89:37; Isa. 55:4]
  14. Revelation 1:5 : Col. 1:18; [Ps. 89:27; Acts 26:23; 1 Cor. 15:20]
  15. Revelation 1:5 : ch. 17:14; 19:16; [Ps. 89:27]
  16. Revelation 1:5 : John 13:34; 15:9
  17. Revelation 1:5 : 1 Pet. 1:18, 19
  18. Revelation 1:6 : ch. 5:10; 20:6; 1 Pet. 2:9
  19. Revelation 1:6 : ch. 5:10; 20:6; 1 Pet. 2:9
  20. Revelation 1:6 : See Rom. 15:6
  21. Revelation 1:6 : See Rom. 11:36
  22. Revelation 1:6 : 1 Pet. 4:11
  23. Revelation 1:7 : Dan. 7:13; See Matt. 16:27
  24. Revelation 1:7 : Zech. 12:10; John 19:37
  25. Revelation 1:8 : ch. 21:6; 22:13; [Isa. 41:4; 43:10; 44:6]
  26. Revelation 1:8 : ver. 4
  27. Revelation 1:9 : [Phil. 4:14]
  28. Revelation 1:9 : John 16:33
  29. Revelation 1:9 : 2 Tim. 2:12
  30. Revelation 1:9 : ch. 3:10
  31. Revelation 1:9 : See ver. 2
  32. Revelation 1:10 : ch. 4:2; [ch. 17:3; 21:10; 1 Kgs. 18:12; Ezek. 3:12; Matt. 22:43; 2 Cor. 12:2]
  33. Revelation 1:10 : Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 16:2
  34. Revelation 1:10 : ch. 4:1
  35. Revelation 1:11 : ver. 2, 19
  36. Revelation 1:12 : ver. 20; ch. 2:1; Ex. 25:37; 2 Chr. 4:20; Zech. 4:2; [ch. 11:4]
  37. Revelation 1:13 : Dan. 7:13
  38. Revelation 1:13 : ch. 14:14; Dan. 10:16
  39. Revelation 1:13 : Dan. 10:5
  40. Revelation 1:13 : ch. 15:6
  41. Revelation 1:14 : Dan. 7:9
  42. Revelation 1:14 : ch. 2:18; 19:12; [Dan. 10:6]
  43. Revelation 1:15 : Ezek. 1:7; Dan. 10:6
  44. Revelation 1:15 : ch. 14:2; 19:6; Ezek. 43:2
  45. Revelation 1:16 : ver. 20; ch. 2:1; 3:1
  46. Revelation 1:16 : ch. 19:15; [ch. 2:12, 16; Isa. 49:2; Eph. 6:17; Heb. 4:12]
  47. Revelation 1:16 : Matt. 17:2
  48. Revelation 1:16 : Judg. 5:31
  49. Revelation 1:17 : Dan. 8:17, 18; 10:9, 10, 15; [Luke 24:37; John 21:12]
  50. Revelation 1:17 : Dan. 8:17, 18; 10:9, 10, 15; [Luke 24:37; John 21:12]
  51. Revelation 1:17 : Matt. 17:7
  52. Revelation 1:17 : ch. 2:8; 22:13; Isa. 41:4; 44:6; 48:12
  53. Revelation 1:18 : Rom. 6:9; 14:9
  54. Revelation 1:18 : [ch. 9:1; 20:1]
  55. Revelation 1:19 : ver. 2, 11
  56. Revelation 1:19 : ver. 12-16
  57. Revelation 1:20 : See ver. 12
  58. Revelation 1:20 : [Matt. 5:14, 15]
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Psalm 128

Blessed Is Everyone Who Fears the Lord

A Song of (A)Ascents.

128 (B)Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord,
who (C)walks in his ways!
2 You (D)shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands;
you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.

3 Your wife will be like (E)a fruitful vine
within your house;
your children will be like (F)olive shoots
around your table.
4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed
who fears the Lord.

5 (G)The Lord bless you (H)from Zion!
May you see (I)the prosperity of Jerusalem
all the days of your life!
6 May you see your (J)children's children!
(K)Peace be upon Israel!

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 128:1 : [See Ps. 120, title]
  2. Psalm 128:1 : See Ps. 112:1
  3. Psalm 128:1 : Ps. 119:1; [Prov. 8:32]
  4. Psalm 128:2 : Isa. 3:10; [Ps. 109:11]
  5. Psalm 128:3 : Ezek. 19:10; [Gen. 49:22]
  6. Psalm 128:3 : See Ps. 52:8
  7. Psalm 128:5 : Ps. 134:3
  8. Psalm 128:5 : Ps. 20:2; 135:21
  9. Psalm 128:5 : [Ps. 122:9]
  10. Psalm 128:6 : Prov. 17:6; See Job 42:16
  11. Psalm 128:6 : Ps. 125:5
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Proverbs 29:18

18 Where (A)there is no prophetic vision the people (B)cast off restraint,[a]
but blessed is he who (C)keeps the law.

Footnotes:

  1. Proverbs 29:18 Or the people are discouraged

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 29:18 : 1 Sam. 3:1; [2 Chr. 15:3; Ps. 74:9; Amos 8:11, 12]
  2. Proverbs 29:18 : Ex. 32:25
  3. Proverbs 29:18 : Luke 11:28; John 13:17; James 1:25
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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Wednesday December 9, 2020 (NIV)

Joel 1-3

1 The word of the Lord that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel:

An Invasion of Locusts

2 (A)Hear this, (B)you elders;
give ear, (C)all inhabitants of the land!
(D)Has such a thing happened in your days,
or in the days of your fathers?
3 (E)Tell your children of it,
and let your children tell their children,
and their children to another generation.

4 What (F)the cutting locust left,
(G)the swarming locust has eaten.
What the swarming locust left,
(H)the hopping locust has eaten,
and what the hopping locust left,
(I)the destroying locust has eaten.

5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep,
and (J)wail, all you drinkers of wine,
because of (K)the sweet wine,
for it is cut off from your mouth.
6 For (L)a nation has come up against my land,
(M)powerful and beyond number;
(N)its teeth are lions' teeth,
and it has the fangs of a lioness.
7 It has laid waste my vine
and splintered my (O)fig tree;
it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down;
their branches are made white.

8 Lament like a virgin[a] (P)wearing sackcloth
for the bridegroom of her youth.
9 (Q)The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off
from the house of the Lord.
(R)The priests mourn,
(S)the ministers of the Lord.
10 The fields are destroyed,
(T)the ground mourns,
because (U)the grain is destroyed,
(V)the wine dries up,
the oil languishes.

11 (W)Be ashamed,[b] O tillers of the soil;
wail, O vinedressers,
for the wheat and the barley,
(X)because the harvest of the field has perished.
12 The vine dries up;
(Y)the fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
all the trees of the field are dried up,
and (Z)gladness dries up
from the children of man.

A Call to Repentance

13 (AA)Put on sackcloth and lament, (AB)O priests;
(AC)wail, O ministers of the altar.
Go in, (AD)pass the night in sackcloth,
(AE)O ministers of my God!
(AF)Because grain offering and drink offering
are withheld from the house of your God.

14 (AG)Consecrate a fast;
(AH)call a solemn assembly.
Gather (AI)the elders
and (AJ)all the inhabitants of the land
to the house of the Lord your God,
and cry out to the Lord.

15 Alas for the day!
(AK)For the day of the Lord is near,
and as destruction from the Almighty[c] it comes.
16 Is not the food cut off
before our eyes,
(AL)joy and gladness
from the house of our God?

17 (AM)The seed shrivels under the clods;[d]
the storehouses are desolate;
the granaries are torn down
because (AN)the grain has dried up.
18 How (AO)the beasts groan!
The herds of cattle are perplexed
because there is no pasture for them;
even the flocks of sheep suffer.[e]

19 To you, (AP)O Lord, I call.
(AQ)For fire has devoured
the pastures of the wilderness,
(AR)and flame has burned
all the trees of the field.
20 Even the beasts of the field (AS)pant for you
because the water brooks are dried up,
(AT)and fire has devoured
the pastures of the wilderness.

The Day of the Lord

2 (AU)Blow a trumpet in (AV)Zion;
sound an alarm on (AW)my holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
for (AX)the day of the Lord is coming; it is near,
2 (AY)a day of darkness and gloom,
(AZ)a day of clouds and thick darkness!
Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains
(BA)a great and powerful people;
(BB)their like has never been before,
nor will be again after them
through the years of all generations.

3 (BC)Fire devours before them,
and behind them a flame burns.
The land is like (BD)the garden of Eden before them,
but (BE)behind them a desolate wilderness,
and nothing escapes them.

4 (BF)Their appearance is like the appearance of horses,
and like war horses they run.
5 (BG)As with the rumbling of chariots,
they leap on the tops of the mountains,
like the crackling of (BH)a flame of fire
devouring the stubble,
(BI)like a powerful army
drawn up for battle.

6 Before them peoples are in anguish;
(BJ)all faces grow pale.
7 Like warriors they charge;
like soldiers they scale the wall.
They march each on his way;
they do not swerve from their paths.
8 They do not jostle one another;
(BK)each marches in his path;
they burst through the weapons
and are not halted.
9 (BL)They leap upon the city,
they run upon the walls,
(BM)they climb up into the houses,
(BN)they enter through the windows (BO)like a thief.

10 (BP)The earth quakes before them;
the heavens tremble.
(BQ)The sun and the moon are darkened,
and the stars withdraw their shining.
11 (BR)The Lord utters his voice
before (BS)his army,
for his camp is exceedingly great;
(BT)he who executes his word is powerful.
(BU)For the day of the Lord is (BV)great and very awesome;
(BW)who can endure it?

Return to the Lord

12 “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
(BX)“return to me with all your heart,
(BY)with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
13 and (BZ)rend your hearts and not (CA)your garments.”
Return to the Lord your God,
(CB)for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
(CC)and he relents over disaster.
14 (CD)Who knows whether he will not turn and relent,
and (CE)leave a blessing behind him,
(CF)a grain offering and a drink offering
for the Lord your God?

15 (CG)Blow the trumpet in Zion;
(CH)consecrate a fast;
call a solemn assembly;
16 gather the people.
(CI)Consecrate the congregation;
assemble the elders;
(CJ)gather the children,
even nursing infants.
(CK)Let the bridegroom leave his room,
and the bride her chamber.

17 (CL)Between the (CM)vestibule and the (CN)altar
(CO)let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep
and say, “Spare your people, O Lord,
and make not your heritage a reproach,
a byword among the nations.[f]
(CP)Why should they say among the peoples,
‘Where is their God?’”

The Lord Had Pity

18 (CQ)Then the Lord became jealous for his land
(CR)and had pity on his people.
19 The Lord answered and said to his people,
“Behold, (CS)I am sending to you
grain, wine, and oil,
(CT)and you will be satisfied;
and I will no more make you
a reproach among the nations.

20 “I will remove the northerner far from you,
and drive him into a parched and desolate land,
his vanguard[g] into (CU)the eastern sea,
and his rear guard[h] into (CV)the western sea;
(CW)the stench and foul smell of him will rise,
for he has done great things.

21 “Fear not, O land;
be glad and rejoice,
for (CX)the Lord has done great things!
22 Fear not, (CY)you beasts of the field,
for (CZ)the pastures of the wilderness are green;
(DA)the tree bears its fruit;
the fig tree and (DB)vine give their full yield.

23 (DC)“Be glad, O children of Zion,
and (DD)rejoice in the Lord your God,
for he has given (DE)the early rain for your vindication;
he has poured down for you abundant rain,
(DF)the early and (DG)the latter rain, as before.

24 “The threshing floors shall be full of grain;
the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
25 I will restore[i] to you the years
that (DH)the swarming locust has eaten,
(DI)the hopper, (DJ)the destroyer, and (DK)the cutter,
(DL)my great army, which I sent among you.

26 (DM)“You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied,
and praise the name of the Lord your God,
who has dealt wondrously with you.
And my people (DN)shall never again be put to shame.
27 (DO)You shall know that I am (DP)in the midst of Israel,
and that (DQ)I am the Lord your God (DR)and there is none else.
And my people (DS)shall never again be put to shame.

The Lord Will Pour Out His Spirit

28 [j] (DT)“And it shall come to pass afterward,
that (DU)I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh;
(DV)your sons and (DW)your daughters shall prophesy,
your old men shall dream dreams,
and your young men shall see visions.
29 (DX)Even on the male and female servants
in those days I will pour out my Spirit.

30 “And I will show (DY)wonders in the heavens and (DZ)on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. 31 (EA)The sun shall be turned to darkness, (EB)and the moon to blood, (EC)before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. 32 And it shall come to pass that (ED)everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. (EE)For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among (EF)the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.

The Lord Judges the Nations

3 [k] “For behold, (EG)in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 (EH)I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And (EI)I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land, 3 and (EJ)have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.

4 “What are you to me, (EK)O Tyre and Sidon, and all (EL)the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, (EM)I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily. 5 For (EN)you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.[l] 6 You have sold (EO)the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border. 7 Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and (EP)I will return your payment on your own head. 8 I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the (EQ)Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the Lord has spoken.”

9 Proclaim this among the nations:
(ER)Consecrate for war;[m]
stir up the mighty men.
Let all the men of war draw near;
let them come up.
10 (ES)Beat your plowshares into swords,
and (ET)your pruning hooks into spears;
let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”

11 (EU)Hasten and come,
all you surrounding nations,
and gather yourselves there.
(EV)Bring down your warriors, O Lord.
12 Let the nations stir themselves up
and come up to (EW)the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
(EX)for there I will sit to judge
all the surrounding nations.

13 (EY)Put in the sickle,
(EZ)for the harvest is ripe.
(FA)Go in, tread,
(FB)for the winepress is full.
The vats overflow,
for their evil is great.

14 Multitudes, multitudes,
in the valley of decision!
For (FC)the day of the Lord is near
in the valley of decision.
15 (FD)The sun and the moon are darkened,
and the stars withdraw their shining.

16 (FE)The Lord roars from Zion,
and (FF)utters his voice from Jerusalem,
(FG)and the heavens and the earth quake.
But the Lord is (FH)a refuge to his people,
a stronghold to the people of Israel.

The Glorious Future of Judah

17 (FI)“So you shall know that I am the Lord your God,
(FJ)who dwells in Zion, (FK)my holy mountain.
And Jerusalem shall be holy,
and (FL)strangers shall never again pass through it.

18 “And in that day
(FM)the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
and the hills shall flow with milk,
and (FN)all the streambeds of Judah
shall flow with water;
(FO)and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord
and water the Valley of (FP)Shittim.

19 (FQ)“Egypt shall become a desolation
and (FR)Edom a desolate wilderness,
(FS)for the violence done to the people of Judah,
because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 (FT)But Judah shall be inhabited forever,
and Jerusalem to all generations.
21 (FU)I will avenge their blood,
blood I have not avenged,[n]
(FV)for the Lord dwells in Zion.”

Footnotes:

  1. Joel 1:8 Or young woman
  2. Joel 1:11 The Hebrew words for dry up and be ashamed in verses 10–12, 17 sound alike
  3. Joel 1:15 Destruction sounds like the Hebrew for Almighty
  4. Joel 1:17 The meaning of the Hebrew line is uncertain
  5. Joel 1:18 Or are made desolate
  6. Joel 2:17 Or reproach, that the nations should rule over them
  7. Joel 2:20 Hebrew face
  8. Joel 2:20 Hebrew his end
  9. Joel 2:25 Or pay back
  10. Joel 2:28 Ch 3:1 in Hebrew
  11. Joel 3:1 Ch 4:1 in Hebrew
  12. Joel 3:5 Or palaces
  13. Joel 3:9 Or Consecrate a war
  14. Joel 3:21 Or I will acquit their bloodguilt that I have not acquitted

Cross references:

  1. Joel 1:2 : [Hos. 5:1]
  2. Joel 1:2 : ver. 14
  3. Joel 1:2 : ver. 14
  4. Joel 1:2 : [ch. 2:2]
  5. Joel 1:3 : [Ps. 78:4]
  6. Joel 1:4 : ch. 2:25; Amos 4:9
  7. Joel 1:4 : [Amos 7:1]; See Ex. 10:4
  8. Joel 1:4 : ch. 2:25; Ps. 105:34; Nah. 3:15
  9. Joel 1:4 : ch. 2:25; Ps. 78:46
  10. Joel 1:5 : [Isa. 24:11]
  11. Joel 1:5 : ch. 3:18; Isa. 49:26; Amos 9:13
  12. Joel 1:6 : ch. 2:2
  13. Joel 1:6 : ch. 2:2
  14. Joel 1:6 : [Rev. 9:7, 8]
  15. Joel 1:7 : [ver. 12]
  16. Joel 1:8 : [ver. 13]; See 2 Sam. 3:31
  17. Joel 1:9 : ver. 13; ch. 2:14
  18. Joel 1:9 : ch. 2:17; [Isa. 61:6; Ezek. 45:4]
  19. Joel 1:9 : ch. 2:17; [Isa. 61:6; Ezek. 45:4]
  20. Joel 1:10 : See Hos. 4:3
  21. Joel 1:10 : [Hos. 2:9]
  22. Joel 1:10 : [Hos. 2:9]
  23. Joel 1:11 : [Jer. 14:4]
  24. Joel 1:11 : ver. 17
  25. Joel 1:12 : [ver. 7]
  26. Joel 1:12 : Isa. 24:11; Jer. 48:33
  27. Joel 1:13 : [ver. 8; Jer. 4:8]
  28. Joel 1:13 : [See ver. 9 above]; ch. 2:17; [Isa. 61:6; Ezek. 45:4]
  29. Joel 1:13 : [ver. 8; Mic. 1:8]
  30. Joel 1:13 : [ver. 8; Jer. 4:8]
  31. Joel 1:13 : [See ver. 9 above]; ch. 2:17; [Isa. 61:6; Ezek. 45:4]
  32. Joel 1:13 : ver. 9; ch. 2:14
  33. Joel 1:14 : ch. 2:15, 16; See 2 Chr. 20:3
  34. Joel 1:14 : ch. 2:15, 16; See 2 Chr. 20:3
  35. Joel 1:14 : ver. 2
  36. Joel 1:14 : ver. 2
  37. Joel 1:15 : ch. 2:1, 11, 31; 3:14; Isa. 13:6, 9; Jer. 46:10; Ezek. 30:2, 3; Amos 5:18; Obad. 15; Zeph. 1:14, 15; Zech. 14:1; 2 Pet. 3:10
  38. Joel 1:16 : [Deut. 12:6, 7; 16:14, 15]
  39. Joel 1:17 : [Mal. 2:3]
  40. Joel 1:17 : ver. 11
  41. Joel 1:18 : ch. 2:22; [Jer. 12:4; Hos. 4:3]
  42. Joel 1:19 : Ps. 50:15
  43. Joel 1:19 : Jer. 9:10
  44. Joel 1:19 : Jer. 9:10
  45. Joel 1:20 : [Job 38:41; Ps. 104:21; 145:15]
  46. Joel 1:20 : [See ver. 19 above]; Jer. 9:10
  47. Joel 2:1 : ver. 15; Isa. 58:1; Hos. 5:8; Amos 3:6
  48. Joel 2:1 : See ch. 3:17
  49. Joel 2:1 : See ch. 3:17
  50. Joel 2:1 : See ch. 1:15
  51. Joel 2:2 : Amos 5:18, 20; Zeph. 1:15
  52. Joel 2:2 : Amos 5:18, 20; Zeph. 1:15
  53. Joel 2:2 : ch. 1:6; [ver. 11, 25]
  54. Joel 2:2 : [ch. 1:2]
  55. Joel 2:3 : ch. 1:19, 20
  56. Joel 2:3 : Gen. 2:8, 9; See Isa. 51:3
  57. Joel 2:3 : Zech. 7:14
  58. Joel 2:4 : Rev. 9:7
  59. Joel 2:5 : Rev. 9:9; [Nah. 3:2]
  60. Joel 2:5 : Isa. 5:24; 47:14; Obad. 18; Nah. 1:10
  61. Joel 2:5 : [See ver. 2 above]; ch. 1:6; [ver. 11, 25]
  62. Joel 2:6 : Nah. 2:10
  63. Joel 2:8 : Prov. 30:27
  64. Joel 2:9 : Isa. 33:4
  65. Joel 2:9 : [Jer. 9:21]
  66. Joel 2:9 : [Jer. 9:21]
  67. Joel 2:9 : [John 10:1]
  68. Joel 2:10 : ch. 3:16; [Ps. 18:7; Amos 8:8]
  69. Joel 2:10 : ch. 3:15; Isa. 13:10; Ezek. 32:7; Matt. 24:29; [Rev. 9:2]
  70. Joel 2:11 : ch. 3:16; [1 Thess. 4:16]
  71. Joel 2:11 : ver. 25
  72. Joel 2:11 : Rev. 18:8
  73. Joel 2:11 : See ch. 1:15
  74. Joel 2:11 : ver. 31
  75. Joel 2:11 : Mal. 3:2; [Num. 24:23]
  76. Joel 2:12 : Deut. 4:30; 1 Sam. 7:3; Jer. 4:1; Hos. 12:6
  77. Joel 2:12 : [1 Sam. 7:6]
  78. Joel 2:13 : [Ps. 34:18]
  79. Joel 2:13 : See Gen. 37:29
  80. Joel 2:13 : Ex. 34:6; Ps. 86:5, 15; Jonah 4:2
  81. Joel 2:13 : [Num. 23:19; Ezek. 24:14]
  82. Joel 2:14 : Jonah 3:9
  83. Joel 2:14 : Hag. 2:19; Mal. 3:10
  84. Joel 2:14 : ch. 1:9, 13
  85. Joel 2:15 : See ver. 1
  86. Joel 2:15 : See ch. 1:14
  87. Joel 2:16 : See Josh. 3:5
  88. Joel 2:16 : [2 Chr. 20:13]
  89. Joel 2:16 : [Deut. 24:5; Eccles. 3:5; Zech. 12:12-14; 1 Cor. 7:5]
  90. Joel 2:17 : Ezek. 8:16
  91. Joel 2:17 : 1 Kgs. 6:3; 2 Chr. 3:4
  92. Joel 2:17 : 2 Chr. 4:1
  93. Joel 2:17 : See ch. 1:9
  94. Joel 2:17 : Ps. 42:3; 79:10; 115:2
  95. Joel 2:18 : Zech. 1:14; 8:2
  96. Joel 2:18 : [Ps. 103:13]
  97. Joel 2:19 : [ch. 1:10; Ps. 4:7]; See Mal. 3:10-12
  98. Joel 2:19 : [ch. 1:10; Ps. 4:7]; See Mal. 3:10-12
  99. Joel 2:20 : Ezek. 47:18; Zech. 14:8
  100. Joel 2:20 : Zech. 14:8
  101. Joel 2:20 : Isa. 34:3; [Amos 4:10]
  102. Joel 2:21 : Ps. 126:2, 3
  103. Joel 2:22 : See ch. 1:18
  104. Joel 2:22 : [ch. 1:19]
  105. Joel 2:22 : [Zech. 8:12]
  106. Joel 2:22 : [Zech. 8:12]
  107. Joel 2:23 : Ps. 100:1, 2; Hab. 3:18; Zech. 10:7
  108. Joel 2:23 : Ps. 100:1, 2; Hab. 3:18; Zech. 10:7
  109. Joel 2:23 : Deut. 11:14; Jer. 5:24
  110. Joel 2:23 : Deut. 11:14; Jer. 5:24
  111. Joel 2:23 : Hos. 6:3
  112. Joel 2:25 : ch. 1:4
  113. Joel 2:25 : ch. 1:4
  114. Joel 2:25 : ch. 1:4
  115. Joel 2:25 : ch. 1:4
  116. Joel 2:25 : ver. 11
  117. Joel 2:26 : Lev. 25:19
  118. Joel 2:26 : [Isa. 49:23]
  119. Joel 2:27 : ch. 3:17
  120. Joel 2:27 : Hos. 11:9; See Ezek. 37:26
  121. Joel 2:27 : See Ex. 20:2
  122. Joel 2:27 : [Isa. 44:8]
  123. Joel 2:27 : [See ver. 26 above]; [Isa. 49:23]
  124. Joel 2:28 : ver. 28-32, cited Acts 2:17-21
  125. Joel 2:28 : Isa. 32:15; Ezek. 39:29; Zech. 12:10; John 7:39
  126. Joel 2:28 : [Acts 2:39]
  127. Joel 2:28 : [Acts 21:9]
  128. Joel 2:29 : [1 Cor. 12:13]
  129. Joel 2:30 : [Matt. 24:30; Luke 21:11]
  130. Joel 2:30 : [Matt. 24:30; Luke 21:11]
  131. Joel 2:31 : See ver. 10
  132. Joel 2:31 : Rev. 6:12
  133. Joel 2:31 : Mal. 4:5
  134. Joel 2:32 : Cited Rom. 10:13
  135. Joel 2:32 : Isa. 46:13; 59:20; Obad. 17
  136. Joel 2:32 : Jer. 31:7; Mic. 4:7; Zech. 8:12
  137. Joel 3:1 : Jer. 30:3
  138. Joel 3:2 : [Zeph. 3:8]; See Zech. 14:2-4
  139. Joel 3:2 : Isa. 66:16; Jer. 25:31
  140. Joel 3:3 : Obad. 11; Nah. 3:10
  141. Joel 3:4 : Isa. 23:1, 2; Jer. 47:4; Amos 1:9
  142. Joel 3:4 : [Ezek. 25:15, 16]
  143. Joel 3:4 : [Obad. 15]
  144. Joel 3:5 : [2 Chr. 21:16, 17]
  145. Joel 3:6 : [ver. 3]
  146. Joel 3:7 : [See ver. 4 above]; [Obad. 15]
  147. Joel 3:8 : See 1 Kgs. 10:1
  148. Joel 3:9 : [Mic. 3:5]
  149. Joel 3:10 : [Isa. 2:4]
  150. Joel 3:10 : [Isa. 2:4]
  151. Joel 3:11 : [Isa. 54:15]
  152. Joel 3:11 : [Zech. 14:5]
  153. Joel 3:12 : ver. 2
  154. Joel 3:12 : Ps. 96:13; 98:9; 110:6; Isa. 2:4; 3:13; Mic. 4:3
  155. Joel 3:13 : Rev. 14:15
  156. Joel 3:13 : [Jer. 51:33; Hos. 6:11; Matt. 13:30, 39; Mark 4:29; John 4:35; Rev. 14:15, 18]
  157. Joel 3:13 : Rev. 14:20; [Isa. 63:2, 3]
  158. Joel 3:13 : Rev. 14:20; [Isa. 63:2, 3]
  159. Joel 3:14 : See ch. 1:15
  160. Joel 3:15 : See ch. 2:10
  161. Joel 3:16 : ch. 2:11; Amos 1:2; [Jer. 25:30]
  162. Joel 3:16 : ch. 2:11; Amos 1:2; [Jer. 25:30]
  163. Joel 3:16 : ch. 2:10
  164. Joel 3:16 : Isa. 4:6; 25:4
  165. Joel 3:17 : ch. 2:27; [Ezek. 6:7]
  166. Joel 3:17 : ver. 21; [Ezek. 43:7]
  167. Joel 3:17 : ch. 2:1; Ps. 48:1; Isa. 65:11; Jer. 31:23
  168. Joel 3:17 : Isa. 52:1; Nah. 1:15; Zech. 14:21; [Rev. 21:27; 22:15]
  169. Joel 3:18 : Jer. 31:12; Amos 9:13
  170. Joel 3:18 : Isa. 30:25
  171. Joel 3:18 : Ezek. 47:1
  172. Joel 3:18 : See Num. 25:1
  173. Joel 3:19 : See Isa. 19:1-17
  174. Joel 3:19 : See Isa. 34:5
  175. Joel 3:19 : Obad. 10
  176. Joel 3:20 : Ps. 125:1, 2; Ezek. 37:25
  177. Joel 3:21 : Isa. 4:4; Ezek. 36:25, 29
  178. Joel 3:21 : [See ver. 17 above]; ver. 21; [Ezek. 43:7]
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Revelation 1

Prologue

1 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God (A)gave him (B)to show to his servants[a] the things that must soon take place. (C)He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, 2 (D)who bore witness to the word of God and to (E)the testimony of Jesus Christ, even (F)to all that he saw. 3 (G)Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, (H)for the time is near.

Greeting to the Seven Churches

4 John to the seven churches that are in Asia:

Grace to you and peace from (I)him (J)who is and (K)who was and who is to come, and from (L)the seven spirits who are before his throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ (M)the faithful witness, (N)the firstborn of the dead, and (O)the ruler of kings on earth.

To (P)him who loves us and (Q)has freed us from our sins by his blood 6 and made us (R)a kingdom, (S)priests to (T)his God and Father, to him be (U)glory and (V)dominion forever and ever. Amen. 7 Behold, (W)he is coming with the clouds, and (X)every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail[b] on account of him. Even so. Amen.

8 (Y)“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, (Z)“who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Vision of the Son of Man

9 I, John, your brother and (AA)partner in (AB)the tribulation and (AC)the kingdom and (AD)the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos (AE)on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. 10 (AF)I was in the Spirit (AG)on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice (AH)like a trumpet 11 saying, (AI)“Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”

12 Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw (AJ)seven golden lampstands, 13 and in the midst of the lampstands (AK)one like (AL)a son of man, (AM)clothed with a long robe and (AN)with a golden sash around his chest. 14 (AO)The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. (AP)His eyes were like a flame of fire, 15 (AQ)his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and (AR)his voice was like the roar of many waters. 16 (AS)In his right hand he held seven stars, (AT)from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and (AU)his face was like the sun shining (AV)in full strength.

17 (AW)When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But (AX)he laid his right hand on me, (AY)saying, “Fear not, (AZ)I am the first and the last, 18 and the living one. (BA)I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and (BB)I have the keys of Death and Hades. 19 (BC)Write therefore (BD)the things that you have seen, those that are and those that are to take place after this. 20 As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and (BE)the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and (BF)the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

Footnotes:

  1. Revelation 1:1 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface; likewise for servant later in this verse
  2. Revelation 1:7 Or mourn

Cross references:

  1. Revelation 1:1 : John 17:7, 8; [John 8:26; 14:10]
  2. Revelation 1:1 : ch. 22:6
  3. Revelation 1:1 : ch. 22:16
  4. Revelation 1:2 : John 19:35
  5. Revelation 1:2 : ch. 6:9; 12:17; 19:10; See 1 Cor. 1:6
  6. Revelation 1:2 : ver. 11, 19
  7. Revelation 1:3 : ch. 22:7; [Luke 11:28; John 8:51; 1 John 2:3]
  8. Revelation 1:3 : ch. 22:10; [1 John 2:18]; See Rom. 13:11
  9. Revelation 1:4 : ver. 8; ch. 4:8; Heb. 13:8
  10. Revelation 1:4 : Ex. 3:14 (Gk.)
  11. Revelation 1:4 : John 1:1
  12. Revelation 1:4 : ch. 3:1; 4:5; 5:6
  13. Revelation 1:5 : ch. 3:14; John 18:37; 1 Tim. 6:13; [ch. 2:13; Ps. 89:37; Isa. 55:4]
  14. Revelation 1:5 : Col. 1:18; [Ps. 89:27; Acts 26:23; 1 Cor. 15:20]
  15. Revelation 1:5 : ch. 17:14; 19:16; [Ps. 89:27]
  16. Revelation 1:5 : John 13:34; 15:9
  17. Revelation 1:5 : 1 Pet. 1:18, 19
  18. Revelation 1:6 : ch. 5:10; 20:6; 1 Pet. 2:9
  19. Revelation 1:6 : ch. 5:10; 20:6; 1 Pet. 2:9
  20. Revelation 1:6 : See Rom. 15:6
  21. Revelation 1:6 : See Rom. 11:36
  22. Revelation 1:6 : 1 Pet. 4:11
  23. Revelation 1:7 : Dan. 7:13; See Matt. 16:27
  24. Revelation 1:7 : Zech. 12:10; John 19:37
  25. Revelation 1:8 : ch. 21:6; 22:13; [Isa. 41:4; 43:10; 44:6]
  26. Revelation 1:8 : ver. 4
  27. Revelation 1:9 : [Phil. 4:14]
  28. Revelation 1:9 : John 16:33
  29. Revelation 1:9 : 2 Tim. 2:12
  30. Revelation 1:9 : ch. 3:10
  31. Revelation 1:9 : See ver. 2
  32. Revelation 1:10 : ch. 4:2; [ch. 17:3; 21:10; 1 Kgs. 18:12; Ezek. 3:12; Matt. 22:43; 2 Cor. 12:2]
  33. Revelation 1:10 : Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 16:2
  34. Revelation 1:10 : ch. 4:1
  35. Revelation 1:11 : ver. 2, 19
  36. Revelation 1:12 : ver. 20; ch. 2:1; Ex. 25:37; 2 Chr. 4:20; Zech. 4:2; [ch. 11:4]
  37. Revelation 1:13 : Dan. 7:13
  38. Revelation 1:13 : ch. 14:14; Dan. 10:16
  39. Revelation 1:13 : Dan. 10:5
  40. Revelation 1:13 : ch. 15:6
  41. Revelation 1:14 : Dan. 7:9
  42. Revelation 1:14 : ch. 2:18; 19:12; [Dan. 10:6]
  43. Revelation 1:15 : Ezek. 1:7; Dan. 10:6
  44. Revelation 1:15 : ch. 14:2; 19:6; Ezek. 43:2
  45. Revelation 1:16 : ver. 20; ch. 2:1; 3:1
  46. Revelation 1:16 : ch. 19:15; [ch. 2:12, 16; Isa. 49:2; Eph. 6:17; Heb. 4:12]
  47. Revelation 1:16 : Matt. 17:2
  48. Revelation 1:16 : Judg. 5:31
  49. Revelation 1:17 : Dan. 8:17, 18; 10:9, 10, 15; [Luke 24:37; John 21:12]
  50. Revelation 1:17 : Dan. 8:17, 18; 10:9, 10, 15; [Luke 24:37; John 21:12]
  51. Revelation 1:17 : Matt. 17:7
  52. Revelation 1:17 : ch. 2:8; 22:13; Isa. 41:4; 44:6; 48:12
  53. Revelation 1:18 : Rom. 6:9; 14:9
  54. Revelation 1:18 : [ch. 9:1; 20:1]
  55. Revelation 1:19 : ver. 2, 11
  56. Revelation 1:19 : ver. 12-16
  57. Revelation 1:20 : See ver. 12
  58. Revelation 1:20 : [Matt. 5:14, 15]
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Psalm 128

Blessed Is Everyone Who Fears the Lord

A Song of (A)Ascents.

128 (B)Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord,
who (C)walks in his ways!
2 You (D)shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands;
you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.

3 Your wife will be like (E)a fruitful vine
within your house;
your children will be like (F)olive shoots
around your table.
4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed
who fears the Lord.

5 (G)The Lord bless you (H)from Zion!
May you see (I)the prosperity of Jerusalem
all the days of your life!
6 May you see your (J)children's children!
(K)Peace be upon Israel!

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 128:1 : [See Ps. 120, title]
  2. Psalm 128:1 : See Ps. 112:1
  3. Psalm 128:1 : Ps. 119:1; [Prov. 8:32]
  4. Psalm 128:2 : Isa. 3:10; [Ps. 109:11]
  5. Psalm 128:3 : Ezek. 19:10; [Gen. 49:22]
  6. Psalm 128:3 : See Ps. 52:8
  7. Psalm 128:5 : Ps. 134:3
  8. Psalm 128:5 : Ps. 20:2; 135:21
  9. Psalm 128:5 : [Ps. 122:9]
  10. Psalm 128:6 : Prov. 17:6; See Job 42:16
  11. Psalm 128:6 : Ps. 125:5
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Proverbs 29:18

18 Where (A)there is no prophetic vision the people (B)cast off restraint,[a]
but blessed is he who (C)keeps the law.

Footnotes:

  1. Proverbs 29:18 Or the people are discouraged

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 29:18 : 1 Sam. 3:1; [2 Chr. 15:3; Ps. 74:9; Amos 8:11, 12]
  2. Proverbs 29:18 : Ex. 32:25
  3. Proverbs 29:18 : Luke 11:28; John 13:17; James 1:25
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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Tuesday December 8, 2020 (NIV)

Hosea 10-14

10 (A)Israel is a luxuriant vine
that yields its fruit.
The more his fruit increased,
(B)the more altars he built;
as his country improved,
he improved his pillars.
2 Their heart is false;
now they must bear their guilt.
The Lord[a] will break down their altars
and destroy their pillars.

3 For now they will say:
(C)“We have no king,
for we do not fear the Lord;
and a king—what could he do for us?”
4 They utter (D)mere words;
with empty[b] oaths they make covenants;
so (E)judgment springs up like poisonous weeds
(F)in the furrows of the field.
5 The inhabitants of Samaria tremble
for (G)the calf[c] of (H)Beth-aven.
Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests—
those who rejoiced over it and (I)over its glory—
for it has departed[d] from them.
6 (J)The thing itself shall be carried to Assyria
as tribute to (K)the great king.[e]
Ephraim shall be put to shame,
and Israel shall be ashamed (L)of his idol.[f]

7 (M)Samaria's king shall perish
like a twig on the face of the waters.
8 The high places of (N)Aven, (O)the sin of Israel,
shall be destroyed.
(P)Thorn and thistle shall grow up
on their altars,
and (Q)they shall say to the mountains, “Cover us,”
and to the hills, “Fall on us.”

9 From (R)the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, O Israel;
there they have continued.
Shall not the war against the unjust[g] overtake them in Gibeah?
10 (S)When I please, (T)I will discipline them,
and nations shall be gathered against them
when they are bound up for (U)their double iniquity.

11 Ephraim was a trained calf
that (V)loved to thresh,
and I spared her fair neck;
but I will put (W)Ephraim to the yoke;
(X)Judah must plow;
Jacob must harrow for himself.
12 (Y)Sow for yourselves righteousness;
reap steadfast love;
(Z)break up your fallow ground,
for it is the time to seek the Lord,
that he may come and (AA)rain righteousness upon you.

13 (AB)You have plowed iniquity;
you have reaped injustice;
you have eaten the fruit of lies.
Because you have trusted in your own way
and in the multitude of your warriors,
14 therefore (AC)the tumult of war shall arise among your people,
and all your fortresses shall be destroyed,
as (AD)Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle;
(AE)mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.
15 Thus it shall be done to you, O (AF)Bethel,
because of your great evil.
At dawn (AG)the king of Israel
shall be utterly cut off.

The Lord's Love for Israel

11 (AH)When Israel was a child, (AI)I loved him,
and out of Egypt I (AJ)called (AK)my son.
2 (AL)The more they were called,
the more they went away;
(AM)they kept sacrificing to the Baals
and burning offerings to idols.

3 Yet it was (AN)I who taught Ephraim to walk;
I took them up by their arms,
but they did not know that (AO)I healed them.
4 (AP)I led them with cords of kindness,[h]
with the bands of love,
and (AQ)I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws,
and (AR)I bent down to them and fed them.

5 (AS)They shall not[i] return to the land of Egypt,
but (AT)Assyria shall be their king,
(AU)because (AV)they have refused to return to me.
6 (AW)The sword shall rage against their cities,
consume the bars of their gates,
and devour them (AX)because of their own counsels.
7 My people are bent (AY)on turning away from me,
and though (AZ)they call out to the Most High,
he shall not raise them up at all.

8 How can I give you up, O Ephraim?
How can I hand you over, O Israel?
(BA)How can I make you (BB)like Admah?
How can I treat you (BC)like Zeboiim?
(BD)My heart recoils within me;
my compassion grows warm and tender.
9 I will not execute my burning anger;
I will not again destroy Ephraim;
(BE)for I am God and not a man,
(BF)the Holy One in your midst,
and I will not come in wrath.[j]

10 (BG)They shall go after the Lord;
(BH)he will roar like a lion;
when he roars,
his children shall come trembling (BI)from the west;
11 they shall come trembling like birds (BJ)from Egypt,
and (BK)like doves (BL)from the land of Assyria,
and I will return them to their homes, declares the Lord.
12 [k] Ephraim (BM)has surrounded me with lies,
and the house of Israel with deceit,
but Judah still walks with God
and is faithful to the Holy One.
12 Ephraim feeds on the wind
and pursues (BN)the east wind all day long;
they multiply (BO)falsehood and violence;
(BP)they make a covenant with Assyria,
and (BQ)oil is carried to Egypt.

The Lord's Indictment of Israel and Judah

2 (BR)The Lord has an indictment against Judah
and will punish Jacob according to his ways;
he will repay him according to his deeds.
3 (BS)In the womb he took his brother by the heel,
and in his manhood he strove with God.
4 He strove with the angel and prevailed;
he wept and sought his favor.
(BT)He met God[l] at Bethel,
and there God spoke with us—
5 the Lord, the God of hosts,
(BU)the Lord is his memorial name:
6 “So you, (BV)by the help of your God, return,
(BW)hold fast to love and justice,
and wait continually for your God.”

7 A merchant, in whose hands are (BX)false balances,
he loves (BY)to oppress.
8 Ephraim has said, “Ah, but (BZ)I am rich;
I have found wealth for myself;
in all my labors (CA)they cannot find in me iniquity or sin.”
9 (CB)I am the Lord your God
from the land of Egypt;
I will again make you (CC)dwell in tents,
as in the days of the appointed feast.

10 (CD)I spoke to the prophets;
it was I who multiplied (CE)visions,
and through the prophets gave parables.
11 (CF)If there is iniquity in Gilead,
they shall surely come to nothing:
(CG)in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls;
(CH)their altars also are like stone heaps
(CI)on the furrows of the field.
12 (CJ)Jacob fled to the land of Aram;
there Israel (CK)served for a wife,
and for a wife he guarded sheep.
13 By (CL)a prophet (CM)the Lord brought Israel up from Egypt,
and by a prophet he was guarded.
14 (CN)Ephraim has given bitter provocation;
so his Lord (CO)will leave his bloodguilt on him
(CP)and will repay him for his disgraceful deeds.

The Lord's Relentless Judgment on Israel

13 When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling;
(CQ)he was exalted in Israel,
but he incurred guilt (CR)through Baal and died.
2 And now they sin more and more,
and (CS)make for themselves metal images,
idols skillfully made of their silver,
(CT)all of them the work of craftsmen.
It is said of them,
“Those who offer human sacrifice (CU)kiss calves!”
3 Therefore they shall be (CV)like the morning mist
or (CW)like the dew that goes early away,
(CX)like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor
or (CY)like smoke from a window.

4 But (CZ)I am the Lord your God
from the land of Egypt;
(DA)you know no God but me,
and (DB)besides me there is no savior.
5 (DC)It was I who knew you in the wilderness,
in the land of drought;
6 (DD)but when they had grazed,[m] they became full,
(DE)they were filled, and their heart was lifted up;
(DF)therefore they forgot me.
7 So (DG)I am to them like a lion;
(DH)like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.
8 I will fall upon them (DI)like a bear robbed of her cubs;
I will tear open their breast,
and there I will devour them like a lion,
(DJ)as a wild beast would rip them open.

9 He destroys[n] you, O Israel,
for you are against me, against (DK)your helper.
10 (DL)Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities?
Where are all your rulers—
those of whom (DM)you said,
“Give me a king and princes”?
11 (DN)I gave you a king in my anger,
and (DO)I took him away in my wrath.

12 The iniquity of Ephraim is (DP)bound up;
his sin is (DQ)kept in store.
13 (DR)The pangs of childbirth come for him,
but he is an unwise son,
for at the right time he does not present himself
(DS)at the opening of the womb.

14 (DT)I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol;
(DU)I shall redeem them from Death.[o]
(DV)O (DW)Death, where are your plagues?
(DX)O (DY)Sheol, where is your sting?
(DZ)Compassion is hidden from my eyes.

15 Though (EA)he may flourish among his brothers,
(EB)the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come,
rising from the wilderness,
(EC)and his fountain shall dry up;
his spring shall be parched;
it shall strip (ED)his treasury
of every precious thing.
16 [p] Samaria (EE)shall bear her guilt,
because (EF)she has rebelled against her God;
they shall fall by the sword;
(EG)their little ones shall be dashed in pieces,
and their (EH)pregnant women ripped open.

A Plea to Return to the Lord

14 (EI)Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
for (EJ)you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
2 Take with you words
and return to the Lord;
say to him,
“Take away all iniquity;
accept (EK)what is good,
and we will pay with bulls
(EL)the vows[q] of our lips.
3 (EM)Assyria shall not save us;
(EN)we will not ride on horses;
and (EO)we will say no more, ‘Our God,’
to the work of our hands.
(EP)In you the orphan finds mercy.”

4 I (EQ)will heal their apostasy;
(ER)I will love them freely,
for my anger has turned from them.
5 (ES)I will be like the dew to Israel;
(ET)he shall blossom like the lily;
he shall take root like the trees (EU)of Lebanon;
6 his shoots shall spread out;
his beauty shall be (EV)like the olive,
and his fragrance like Lebanon.
7 They shall return and (EW)dwell beneath my[r] shadow;
they shall flourish like the grain;
they shall blossom like the vine;
their fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon.

8 O (EX)Ephraim, what have I to do with idols?
It is I who answer and look after you.[s]
I am like an evergreen cypress;
(EY)from me comes your fruit.

9 (EZ)Whoever is wise, let him understand these things;
whoever is discerning, let him know them;
for the ways of the Lord are right,
and (FA)the upright walk in them,
(FB)but transgressors stumble in them.

Footnotes:

  1. Hosea 10:2 Hebrew He
  2. Hosea 10:4 Or vain (see Exodus 20:7)
  3. Hosea 10:5 Or calves
  4. Hosea 10:5 Or has gone into exile
  5. Hosea 10:6 Or to King Jareb
  6. Hosea 10:6 Or counsel
  7. Hosea 10:9 Hebrew the children of injustice
  8. Hosea 11:4 Or humaneness; Hebrew man
  9. Hosea 11:5 Or surely
  10. Hosea 11:9 Or into the city
  11. Hosea 11:12 Ch 12:1 in Hebrew
  12. Hosea 12:4 Hebrew him
  13. Hosea 13:6 Hebrew according to their pasture
  14. Hosea 13:9 Or I will destroy
  15. Hosea 13:14 Or Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death?
  16. Hosea 13:16 Ch 14:1 in Hebrew
  17. Hosea 14:2 Septuagint, Syriac pay the fruit
  18. Hosea 14:7 Hebrew his
  19. Hosea 14:8 Hebrew him

Cross references:

  1. Hosea 10:1 : See Ps. 80:8-11
  2. Hosea 10:1 : ch. 8:11
  3. Hosea 10:3 : [ver. 7, 15; 1 Sam. 12:12]
  4. Hosea 10:4 : [ch. 4:2]
  5. Hosea 10:4 : Amos 5:7; 6:12
  6. Hosea 10:4 : ch. 12:11
  7. Hosea 10:5 : See 1 Kgs. 12:28
  8. Hosea 10:5 : See ch. 4:15
  9. Hosea 10:5 : ch. 9:11; [1 Sam. 4:21, 22]
  10. Hosea 10:6 : [Isa. 46:2]
  11. Hosea 10:6 : ch. 5:13
  12. Hosea 10:6 : ch. 11:6
  13. Hosea 10:7 : [ver. 3]
  14. Hosea 10:8 : [See ver. 5 above]; See ch. 4:15
  15. Hosea 10:8 : 1 Kgs. 12:30; Amos 8:14
  16. Hosea 10:8 : [ch. 9:6]
  17. Hosea 10:8 : Luke 23:30; Rev. 6:16; [Isa. 2:19]
  18. Hosea 10:9 : ch. 9:9
  19. Hosea 10:10 : [Ex. 32:34]
  20. Hosea 10:10 : ch. 7:12
  21. Hosea 10:10 : [1 Kgs. 12:28]
  22. Hosea 10:11 : [Deut. 25:4; 1 Cor. 9:9; 1 Tim. 5:18]
  23. Hosea 10:11 : See ch. 6:4
  24. Hosea 10:11 : See ch. 6:4
  25. Hosea 10:12 : [ch. 8:7; Gal. 6:8]
  26. Hosea 10:12 : Jer. 4:3
  27. Hosea 10:12 : Isa. 45:8
  28. Hosea 10:13 : [ch. 8:7]
  29. Hosea 10:14 : [ch. 1:5]
  30. Hosea 10:14 : 2 Kgs. 17:3
  31. Hosea 10:14 : [ch. 13:16]
  32. Hosea 10:15 : [ver. 5]
  33. Hosea 10:15 : [See ver. 6 above]; ch. 5:13
  34. Hosea 11:1 : [ch. 2:15]
  35. Hosea 11:1 : Deut. 7:8; [ch. 14:4]
  36. Hosea 11:1 : Cited Matt. 2:15
  37. Hosea 11:1 : Ex. 4:22; [Mal. 1:6]
  38. Hosea 11:2 : [ver. 7]
  39. Hosea 11:2 : [ch. 2:13; 13:1, 2]
  40. Hosea 11:3 : [ch. 7:15; Deut. 1:31]
  41. Hosea 11:3 : Ex. 15:26
  42. Hosea 11:4 : Jer. 31:3; [John 6:44; 12:32]
  43. Hosea 11:4 : Lev. 26:13
  44. Hosea 11:4 : See Ps. 78:24-29
  45. Hosea 11:5 : [ch. 8:13]
  46. Hosea 11:5 : [ch. 10:3]
  47. Hosea 11:5 : [2 Kgs. 17:13, 14]
  48. Hosea 11:5 : [ch. 4:16; 7:16]
  49. Hosea 11:6 : [ch. 10:14]
  50. Hosea 11:6 : ch. 10:6
  51. Hosea 11:7 : ch. 14:4
  52. Hosea 11:7 : [ver. 2]
  53. Hosea 11:8 : [Gen. 19:24, 25; Jer. 49:18; 50:40; Amos 4:11; Jude 7]
  54. Hosea 11:8 : Gen. 14:8; Deut. 29:23
  55. Hosea 11:8 : Gen. 14:8; Deut. 29:23
  56. Hosea 11:8 : [Deut. 32:36]
  57. Hosea 11:9 : See Num. 23:19
  58. Hosea 11:9 : See Isa. 12:6
  59. Hosea 11:10 : [ch. 3:5]
  60. Hosea 11:10 : Isa. 31:4; Jer. 25:30; Joel 3:16; Amos 1:2
  61. Hosea 11:10 : Isa. 11:11; Zech. 8:7
  62. Hosea 11:11 : See ch. 8:13
  63. Hosea 11:11 : Isa. 60:8
  64. Hosea 11:11 : Zech. 10:6, 10; [ch. 9:3]
  65. Hosea 11:12 : [ch. 7:13]
  66. Hosea 12:1 : [ch. 13:15; Jer. 18:17]
  67. Hosea 12:1 : [See ch. 11:12 above]; [ch. 7:13]
  68. Hosea 12:1 : See ch. 5:13
  69. Hosea 12:1 : [ch. 7:11; 2 Kgs. 17:4]
  70. Hosea 12:2 : See ch. 4:1
  71. Hosea 12:3 : Gen. 25:26; [Gen. 27:36]
  72. Hosea 12:4 : Gen. 28:12, 19; 35:9, 10, 15
  73. Hosea 12:5 : Ex. 3:15
  74. Hosea 12:6 : ch. 14:1, 2; Joel 2:12, 13
  75. Hosea 12:6 : [Mic. 6:8]
  76. Hosea 12:7 : Amos 8:5; Mic. 6:11; [Prov. 11:1; 20:23]
  77. Hosea 12:7 : Mic. 2:2
  78. Hosea 12:8 : Zech. 11:5; Rev. 3:17
  79. Hosea 12:8 : [Deut. 29:19]
  80. Hosea 12:9 : ch. 13:4
  81. Hosea 12:9 : See Lev. 23:39-43; Neh. 8:14-18
  82. Hosea 12:10 : [2 Kgs. 17:13]
  83. Hosea 12:10 : [Joel 2:28]
  84. Hosea 12:11 : ch. 6:8
  85. Hosea 12:11 : ch. 4:15; 9:15
  86. Hosea 12:11 : ch. 8:11
  87. Hosea 12:11 : ch. 10:4
  88. Hosea 12:12 : Gen. 28:5
  89. Hosea 12:12 : Gen. 29:20, 28
  90. Hosea 12:13 : [Deut. 18:15]
  91. Hosea 12:13 : Ex. 12:50, 51; Ps. 77:20; See Isa. 63:11-14
  92. Hosea 12:14 : 2 Kgs. 17:17
  93. Hosea 12:14 : See ch. 4:2
  94. Hosea 12:14 : ver. 2
  95. Hosea 13:1 : [Amos 6:13]
  96. Hosea 13:1 : See ch. 11:2
  97. Hosea 13:2 : ch. 2:8
  98. Hosea 13:2 : [Ps. 115:4; Isa. 40:19, 20]
  99. Hosea 13:2 : [1 Kgs. 19:18; Job 31:26, 27]
  100. Hosea 13:3 : ch. 6:4
  101. Hosea 13:3 : ch. 6:4
  102. Hosea 13:3 : See Ps. 1:4
  103. Hosea 13:3 : See Ps. 68:2
  104. Hosea 13:4 : ch. 12:9
  105. Hosea 13:4 : See Ex. 20:3
  106. Hosea 13:4 : Isa. 43:11; 45:21
  107. Hosea 13:5 : Deut. 2:7; Amos 3:2
  108. Hosea 13:6 : [ch. 4:7]
  109. Hosea 13:6 : Deut. 8:12, 14; [Deut. 32:15]
  110. Hosea 13:6 : Deut. 8:12, 14; [Deut. 32:15]
  111. Hosea 13:7 : ch. 5:14
  112. Hosea 13:7 : Jer. 5:6
  113. Hosea 13:8 : 2 Sam. 17:8; Prov. 17:12
  114. Hosea 13:8 : [ch. 2:12]
  115. Hosea 13:9 : [Deut. 33:26]
  116. Hosea 13:10 : [ch. 8:4; 10:3]
  117. Hosea 13:10 : 1 Sam. 8:5, 19
  118. Hosea 13:11 : [1 Sam. 8:22]
  119. Hosea 13:11 : [1 Sam. 15:23]
  120. Hosea 13:12 : Job 14:17
  121. Hosea 13:12 : Job 14:17
  122. Hosea 13:13 : Isa. 13:8; 1 Thess. 5:3
  123. Hosea 13:13 : [2 Kgs. 19:3]
  124. Hosea 13:14 : Isa. 25:8; 26:19; Ezek. 37:12
  125. Hosea 13:14 : Isa. 25:8; 26:19; Ezek. 37:12
  126. Hosea 13:14 : [1 Cor. 15:55]
  127. Hosea 13:14 : [Ezek. 14:21]
  128. Hosea 13:14 : [1 Cor. 15:55]
  129. Hosea 13:14 : [Ezek. 14:21]
  130. Hosea 13:14 : [Ezek. 9:10]
  131. Hosea 13:15 : [Gen. 41:52]
  132. Hosea 13:15 : [Ezek. 19:12; Jonah 4:8; Hab. 1:9]
  133. Hosea 13:15 : [Ezek. 17:10]
  134. Hosea 13:15 : [ch. 12:8]
  135. Hosea 13:16 : [Hab. 1:11]
  136. Hosea 13:16 : 2 Kgs. 18:12
  137. Hosea 13:16 : [ch. 9:12; 10:14]
  138. Hosea 13:16 : [2 Kgs. 8:12; 15:16; Amos 1:13]
  139. Hosea 14:1 : ch. 6:1; 12:6; [ch. 3:5]
  140. Hosea 14:1 : [ch. 13:9]
  141. Hosea 14:2 : [ch. 5:15]
  142. Hosea 14:2 : Heb. 13:15; [Ps. 50:13, 14; 69:30, 31]
  143. Hosea 14:3 : ch. 5:13
  144. Hosea 14:3 : [Isa. 30:16; 31:1]
  145. Hosea 14:3 : [ver. 8]
  146. Hosea 14:3 : See Ps. 10:14
  147. Hosea 14:4 : Jer. 3:22; [ch. 6:1]
  148. Hosea 14:4 : [ch. 11:1]
  149. Hosea 14:5 : [ch. 6:3]
  150. Hosea 14:5 : Isa. 27:6
  151. Hosea 14:5 : [Ps. 92:12; Isa. 35:2]
  152. Hosea 14:6 : Ps. 52:8
  153. Hosea 14:7 : Ps. 91:1
  154. Hosea 14:8 : [ver. 3; Isa. 30:22]
  155. Hosea 14:8 : [ch. 2:8, 23; John 15:4, 5]
  156. Hosea 14:9 : Ps. 107:43; Jer. 9:12; Dan. 12:10; John 8:47; 18:37
  157. Hosea 14:9 : [Prov. 10:29; Luke 2:34; 2 Cor. 2:16]
  158. Hosea 14:9 : [Prov. 10:29; Luke 2:34; 2 Cor. 2:16]
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Jude

Greeting

1 Jude, a servant[a] of Jesus Christ and brother of James,

(A)To those who are called, (B)beloved in God the Father and (C)kept for[b] Jesus Christ:

2 May (D)mercy, (E)peace, and love be multiplied to you.

Judgment on False Teachers

3 Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our (F)common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you (G)to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. 4 For (H)certain people (I)have crept in unnoticed (J)who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert (K)the grace of our God into sensuality and (L)deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

5 Now I want (M)to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that (N)Jesus, who saved[c] a people out of the land of Egypt, (O)afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And (P)the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day— 7 just as (Q)Sodom and Gomorrah and (R)the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and (S)pursued unnatural desire,[d] serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

8 Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and (T)blaspheme the glorious ones. 9 But when (U)the archangel (V)Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing (W)about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, (X)“The Lord rebuke you.” 10 (Y)But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively. 11 Woe to them! For they walked in (Z)the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain (AA)to Balaam's error and (AB)perished in Korah's rebellion. 12 These are hidden reefs[e] (AC)at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, (AD)shepherds feeding themselves; (AE)waterless clouds, (AF)swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, (AG)uprooted; 13 (AH)wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of (AI)their own shame; (AJ)wandering stars, (AK)for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.

14 It was also about these that Enoch, (AL)the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, (AM)“Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, 15 (AN)to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have (AO)committed in such an ungodly way, and of all (AP)the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” 16 These are grumblers, malcontents, (AQ)following their own sinful desires; (AR)they are loud-mouthed boasters, (AS)showing favoritism to gain advantage.

A Call to Persevere

17 But you must (AT)remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. 18 They[f] said to you, (AU)“In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.” 19 It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, (AV)devoid of the Spirit. 20 But you, beloved, (AW)building yourselves up in your most holy faith and (AX)praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 (AY)keep yourselves in the love of God, (AZ)waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. 22 And have mercy on those who doubt; 23 save others by (BA)snatching them out of (BB)the fire; to others show mercy (BC)with fear, hating even (BD)the garment[g] stained by the flesh.

Doxology

24 (BE)Now to him who is able (BF)to keep you from stumbling and (BG)to present you (BH)blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, 25 to (BI)the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, (BJ)be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time[h] and now and forever. Amen.

Footnotes:

  1. Jude 1:1 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface
  2. Jude 1:1 Or by
  3. Jude 1:5 Some manuscripts although you fully knew it, that the Lord who once saved
  4. Jude 1:7 Greek different flesh
  5. Jude 1:12 Or are blemishes
  6. Jude 1:18 Or Christ, because they
  7. Jude 1:23 Greek chiton, a long garment worn under the cloak next to the skin
  8. Jude 1:25 Or before any age

Cross references:

  1. Jude 1:1 : Rom. 1:7; 1 Cor. 1:24
  2. Jude 1:1 : 1 Thess. 1:4; 2 Thess. 2:13
  3. Jude 1:1 : John 17:11, 15; 1 Thess. 5:23
  4. Jude 1:2 : [2 John 3]
  5. Jude 1:2 : 1 Pet. 1:2; 2 Pet. 1:2
  6. Jude 1:3 : Titus 1:4
  7. Jude 1:3 : 1 Tim. 6:12; 2 Tim. 4:7; [Luke 13:24; 1 Cor. 9:25; Phil. 1:27]
  8. Jude 1:4 : 2 Pet. 2:1
  9. Jude 1:4 : [Gal. 2:4]
  10. Jude 1:4 : 1 Pet. 2:8
  11. Jude 1:4 : See Acts 11:23
  12. Jude 1:4 : Titus 1:16; 2 Pet. 2:1; 1 John 2:22
  13. Jude 1:5 : 2 Pet. 1:12; 3:17
  14. Jude 1:5 : [1 Cor. 10:4, 5, 9]
  15. Jude 1:5 : Num. 14:29, 37; 26:64, 65; Ps. 106:26; Heb. 3:17-19
  16. Jude 1:6 : 2 Pet. 2:4; [Rev. 20:2]
  17. Jude 1:7 : See Gen. 19:24
  18. Jude 1:7 : Deut. 29:23; Hos. 11:8
  19. Jude 1:7 : 2 Pet. 2:10
  20. Jude 1:8 : 2 Pet. 2:10
  21. Jude 1:9 : 1 Thess. 4:16; [2 Pet. 2:11]
  22. Jude 1:9 : Dan. 10:13; 12:1; Rev. 12:7
  23. Jude 1:9 : [Deut. 34:6]
  24. Jude 1:9 : Zech. 3:2
  25. Jude 1:10 : 2 Pet. 2:12
  26. Jude 1:11 : See Gen. 4:5-8
  27. Jude 1:11 : See 2 Pet. 2:15
  28. Jude 1:11 : Num. 16:1-3, 31-35
  29. Jude 1:12 : 2 Pet. 2:13
  30. Jude 1:12 : Ezek. 34:2, 8, 10
  31. Jude 1:12 : Prov. 25:14; 2 Pet. 2:17
  32. Jude 1:12 : Heb. 13:9
  33. Jude 1:12 : Matt. 15:13
  34. Jude 1:13 : Isa. 57:20
  35. Jude 1:13 : [2 Cor. 4:2; Phil. 3:19]
  36. Jude 1:13 : [Isa. 14:12]
  37. Jude 1:13 : 2 Pet. 2:17
  38. Jude 1:14 : Gen. 5:18
  39. Jude 1:14 : See Deut. 33:2; [Dan. 7:10; Mark 8:38; 1 Thess. 3:13; 2 Thess. 1:7]
  40. Jude 1:15 : [2 Pet. 2:5]
  41. Jude 1:15 : 2 Pet. 2:6
  42. Jude 1:15 : 1 Sam. 2:3; Ps. 94:4; John 6:60
  43. Jude 1:16 : 2 Pet. 2:10
  44. Jude 1:16 : 2 Pet. 2:18
  45. Jude 1:16 : Lev. 19:15; Deut. 10:17
  46. Jude 1:17 : 2 Pet. 3:2
  47. Jude 1:18 : 2 Pet. 3:3
  48. Jude 1:19 : [Rom. 8:9; Phil. 3:3]
  49. Jude 1:20 : See Col. 2:7
  50. Jude 1:20 : Eph. 6:18; [Rom. 8:26]
  51. Jude 1:21 : 2 Cor. 13:14; [Acts 13:43]
  52. Jude 1:21 : Titus 2:13; 2 Pet. 3:12
  53. Jude 1:23 : Amos 4:11; Zech. 3:2
  54. Jude 1:23 : See 1 Cor. 3:15
  55. Jude 1:23 : [2 Cor. 5:11]
  56. Jude 1:23 : Rev. 3:4; [Zech. 3:4]
  57. Jude 1:24 : Rom. 16:25; Eph. 3:20
  58. Jude 1:24 : John 17:12
  59. Jude 1:24 : Col. 1:22; [1 Pet. 4:13]
  60. Jude 1:24 : Eph. 1:4; 5:27; Phil. 2:15; Rev. 14:5
  61. Jude 1:25 : John 5:44; 1 Tim. 1:17
  62. Jude 1:25 : See Rom. 11:36
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Psalm 127

Unless the Lord Builds the House

A Song of (A)Ascents. Of Solomon.

127 Unless the Lord builds the house,
those who build it labor in vain.
Unless the Lord (B)watches over the city,
the watchman stays awake in vain.
2 It is in vain that you rise up early
and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious (C)toil;
for he gives to his (D)beloved (E)sleep.

3 Behold, (F)children are a heritage from the Lord,
(G)the fruit of the womb a reward.
4 Like arrows in the hand of (H)a warrior
are the children[a] of one's youth.
5 Blessed is the man
who fills his quiver with them!
He shall not be put to shame
when he speaks with his enemies (I)in the gate.[b]

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 127:4 Or sons
  2. Psalm 127:5 Or They shall not be put to shame when they speak with their enemies in the gate

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 127:1 : [See Ps. 120, title]
  2. Psalm 127:1 : See Ps. 121:4
  3. Psalm 127:2 : Gen. 3:17, 19
  4. Psalm 127:2 : Ps. 60:5
  5. Psalm 127:2 : [Mark 4:26, 27]
  6. Psalm 127:3 : [Gen. 33:5]
  7. Psalm 127:3 : Deut. 28:4; [Ps. 132:11]
  8. Psalm 127:4 : Ps. 120:4
  9. Psalm 127:5 : See Job 5:4
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Proverbs 29:15-17

15 (A)The rod and reproof give wisdom,
but a child left to himself (B)brings shame to his mother.
16 When the wicked increase, transgression increases,
but (C)the righteous will look upon their downfall.
17 (D)Discipline your son, and he will give you rest;
he will give delight to your heart.

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 29:15 : See ver. 17
  2. Proverbs 29:15 : ch. 10:1; 17:25
  3. Proverbs 29:16 : Ps. 37:34, 36; 58:10; 91:8; 92:11
  4. Proverbs 29:17 : See ch. 13:24
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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Tuesday December 8, 2020 (NIV)

Hosea 10-14

10 (A)Israel is a luxuriant vine
that yields its fruit.
The more his fruit increased,
(B)the more altars he built;
as his country improved,
he improved his pillars.
2 Their heart is false;
now they must bear their guilt.
The Lord[a] will break down their altars
and destroy their pillars.

3 For now they will say:
(C)“We have no king,
for we do not fear the Lord;
and a king—what could he do for us?”
4 They utter (D)mere words;
with empty[b] oaths they make covenants;
so (E)judgment springs up like poisonous weeds
(F)in the furrows of the field.
5 The inhabitants of Samaria tremble
for (G)the calf[c] of (H)Beth-aven.
Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests—
those who rejoiced over it and (I)over its glory—
for it has departed[d] from them.
6 (J)The thing itself shall be carried to Assyria
as tribute to (K)the great king.[e]
Ephraim shall be put to shame,
and Israel shall be ashamed (L)of his idol.[f]

7 (M)Samaria's king shall perish
like a twig on the face of the waters.
8 The high places of (N)Aven, (O)the sin of Israel,
shall be destroyed.
(P)Thorn and thistle shall grow up
on their altars,
and (Q)they shall say to the mountains, “Cover us,”
and to the hills, “Fall on us.”

9 From (R)the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, O Israel;
there they have continued.
Shall not the war against the unjust[g] overtake them in Gibeah?
10 (S)When I please, (T)I will discipline them,
and nations shall be gathered against them
when they are bound up for (U)their double iniquity.

11 Ephraim was a trained calf
that (V)loved to thresh,
and I spared her fair neck;
but I will put (W)Ephraim to the yoke;
(X)Judah must plow;
Jacob must harrow for himself.
12 (Y)Sow for yourselves righteousness;
reap steadfast love;
(Z)break up your fallow ground,
for it is the time to seek the Lord,
that he may come and (AA)rain righteousness upon you.

13 (AB)You have plowed iniquity;
you have reaped injustice;
you have eaten the fruit of lies.
Because you have trusted in your own way
and in the multitude of your warriors,
14 therefore (AC)the tumult of war shall arise among your people,
and all your fortresses shall be destroyed,
as (AD)Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle;
(AE)mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.
15 Thus it shall be done to you, O (AF)Bethel,
because of your great evil.
At dawn (AG)the king of Israel
shall be utterly cut off.

The Lord's Love for Israel

11 (AH)When Israel was a child, (AI)I loved him,
and out of Egypt I (AJ)called (AK)my son.
2 (AL)The more they were called,
the more they went away;
(AM)they kept sacrificing to the Baals
and burning offerings to idols.

3 Yet it was (AN)I who taught Ephraim to walk;
I took them up by their arms,
but they did not know that (AO)I healed them.
4 (AP)I led them with cords of kindness,[h]
with the bands of love,
and (AQ)I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws,
and (AR)I bent down to them and fed them.

5 (AS)They shall not[i] return to the land of Egypt,
but (AT)Assyria shall be their king,
(AU)because (AV)they have refused to return to me.
6 (AW)The sword shall rage against their cities,
consume the bars of their gates,
and devour them (AX)because of their own counsels.
7 My people are bent (AY)on turning away from me,
and though (AZ)they call out to the Most High,
he shall not raise them up at all.

8 How can I give you up, O Ephraim?
How can I hand you over, O Israel?
(BA)How can I make you (BB)like Admah?
How can I treat you (BC)like Zeboiim?
(BD)My heart recoils within me;
my compassion grows warm and tender.
9 I will not execute my burning anger;
I will not again destroy Ephraim;
(BE)for I am God and not a man,
(BF)the Holy One in your midst,
and I will not come in wrath.[j]

10 (BG)They shall go after the Lord;
(BH)he will roar like a lion;
when he roars,
his children shall come trembling (BI)from the west;
11 they shall come trembling like birds (BJ)from Egypt,
and (BK)like doves (BL)from the land of Assyria,
and I will return them to their homes, declares the Lord.
12 [k] Ephraim (BM)has surrounded me with lies,
and the house of Israel with deceit,
but Judah still walks with God
and is faithful to the Holy One.
12 Ephraim feeds on the wind
and pursues (BN)the east wind all day long;
they multiply (BO)falsehood and violence;
(BP)they make a covenant with Assyria,
and (BQ)oil is carried to Egypt.

The Lord's Indictment of Israel and Judah

2 (BR)The Lord has an indictment against Judah
and will punish Jacob according to his ways;
he will repay him according to his deeds.
3 (BS)In the womb he took his brother by the heel,
and in his manhood he strove with God.
4 He strove with the angel and prevailed;
he wept and sought his favor.
(BT)He met God[l] at Bethel,
and there God spoke with us—
5 the Lord, the God of hosts,
(BU)the Lord is his memorial name:
6 “So you, (BV)by the help of your God, return,
(BW)hold fast to love and justice,
and wait continually for your God.”

7 A merchant, in whose hands are (BX)false balances,
he loves (BY)to oppress.
8 Ephraim has said, “Ah, but (BZ)I am rich;
I have found wealth for myself;
in all my labors (CA)they cannot find in me iniquity or sin.”
9 (CB)I am the Lord your God
from the land of Egypt;
I will again make you (CC)dwell in tents,
as in the days of the appointed feast.

10 (CD)I spoke to the prophets;
it was I who multiplied (CE)visions,
and through the prophets gave parables.
11 (CF)If there is iniquity in Gilead,
they shall surely come to nothing:
(CG)in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls;
(CH)their altars also are like stone heaps
(CI)on the furrows of the field.
12 (CJ)Jacob fled to the land of Aram;
there Israel (CK)served for a wife,
and for a wife he guarded sheep.
13 By (CL)a prophet (CM)the Lord brought Israel up from Egypt,
and by a prophet he was guarded.
14 (CN)Ephraim has given bitter provocation;
so his Lord (CO)will leave his bloodguilt on him
(CP)and will repay him for his disgraceful deeds.

The Lord's Relentless Judgment on Israel

13 When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling;
(CQ)he was exalted in Israel,
but he incurred guilt (CR)through Baal and died.
2 And now they sin more and more,
and (CS)make for themselves metal images,
idols skillfully made of their silver,
(CT)all of them the work of craftsmen.
It is said of them,
“Those who offer human sacrifice (CU)kiss calves!”
3 Therefore they shall be (CV)like the morning mist
or (CW)like the dew that goes early away,
(CX)like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor
or (CY)like smoke from a window.

4 But (CZ)I am the Lord your God
from the land of Egypt;
(DA)you know no God but me,
and (DB)besides me there is no savior.
5 (DC)It was I who knew you in the wilderness,
in the land of drought;
6 (DD)but when they had grazed,[m] they became full,
(DE)they were filled, and their heart was lifted up;
(DF)therefore they forgot me.
7 So (DG)I am to them like a lion;
(DH)like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.
8 I will fall upon them (DI)like a bear robbed of her cubs;
I will tear open their breast,
and there I will devour them like a lion,
(DJ)as a wild beast would rip them open.

9 He destroys[n] you, O Israel,
for you are against me, against (DK)your helper.
10 (DL)Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities?
Where are all your rulers—
those of whom (DM)you said,
“Give me a king and princes”?
11 (DN)I gave you a king in my anger,
and (DO)I took him away in my wrath.

12 The iniquity of Ephraim is (DP)bound up;
his sin is (DQ)kept in store.
13 (DR)The pangs of childbirth come for him,
but he is an unwise son,
for at the right time he does not present himself
(DS)at the opening of the womb.

14 (DT)I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol;
(DU)I shall redeem them from Death.[o]
(DV)O (DW)Death, where are your plagues?
(DX)O (DY)Sheol, where is your sting?
(DZ)Compassion is hidden from my eyes.

15 Though (EA)he may flourish among his brothers,
(EB)the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come,
rising from the wilderness,
(EC)and his fountain shall dry up;
his spring shall be parched;
it shall strip (ED)his treasury
of every precious thing.
16 [p] Samaria (EE)shall bear her guilt,
because (EF)she has rebelled against her God;
they shall fall by the sword;
(EG)their little ones shall be dashed in pieces,
and their (EH)pregnant women ripped open.

A Plea to Return to the Lord

14 (EI)Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
for (EJ)you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
2 Take with you words
and return to the Lord;
say to him,
“Take away all iniquity;
accept (EK)what is good,
and we will pay with bulls
(EL)the vows[q] of our lips.
3 (EM)Assyria shall not save us;
(EN)we will not ride on horses;
and (EO)we will say no more, ‘Our God,’
to the work of our hands.
(EP)In you the orphan finds mercy.”

4 I (EQ)will heal their apostasy;
(ER)I will love them freely,
for my anger has turned from them.
5 (ES)I will be like the dew to Israel;
(ET)he shall blossom like the lily;
he shall take root like the trees (EU)of Lebanon;
6 his shoots shall spread out;
his beauty shall be (EV)like the olive,
and his fragrance like Lebanon.
7 They shall return and (EW)dwell beneath my[r] shadow;
they shall flourish like the grain;
they shall blossom like the vine;
their fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon.

8 O (EX)Ephraim, what have I to do with idols?
It is I who answer and look after you.[s]
I am like an evergreen cypress;
(EY)from me comes your fruit.

9 (EZ)Whoever is wise, let him understand these things;
whoever is discerning, let him know them;
for the ways of the Lord are right,
and (FA)the upright walk in them,
(FB)but transgressors stumble in them.

Footnotes:

  1. Hosea 10:2 Hebrew He
  2. Hosea 10:4 Or vain (see Exodus 20:7)
  3. Hosea 10:5 Or calves
  4. Hosea 10:5 Or has gone into exile
  5. Hosea 10:6 Or to King Jareb
  6. Hosea 10:6 Or counsel
  7. Hosea 10:9 Hebrew the children of injustice
  8. Hosea 11:4 Or humaneness; Hebrew man
  9. Hosea 11:5 Or surely
  10. Hosea 11:9 Or into the city
  11. Hosea 11:12 Ch 12:1 in Hebrew
  12. Hosea 12:4 Hebrew him
  13. Hosea 13:6 Hebrew according to their pasture
  14. Hosea 13:9 Or I will destroy
  15. Hosea 13:14 Or Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death?
  16. Hosea 13:16 Ch 14:1 in Hebrew
  17. Hosea 14:2 Septuagint, Syriac pay the fruit
  18. Hosea 14:7 Hebrew his
  19. Hosea 14:8 Hebrew him

Cross references:

  1. Hosea 10:1 : See Ps. 80:8-11
  2. Hosea 10:1 : ch. 8:11
  3. Hosea 10:3 : [ver. 7, 15; 1 Sam. 12:12]
  4. Hosea 10:4 : [ch. 4:2]
  5. Hosea 10:4 : Amos 5:7; 6:12
  6. Hosea 10:4 : ch. 12:11
  7. Hosea 10:5 : See 1 Kgs. 12:28
  8. Hosea 10:5 : See ch. 4:15
  9. Hosea 10:5 : ch. 9:11; [1 Sam. 4:21, 22]
  10. Hosea 10:6 : [Isa. 46:2]
  11. Hosea 10:6 : ch. 5:13
  12. Hosea 10:6 : ch. 11:6
  13. Hosea 10:7 : [ver. 3]
  14. Hosea 10:8 : [See ver. 5 above]; See ch. 4:15
  15. Hosea 10:8 : 1 Kgs. 12:30; Amos 8:14
  16. Hosea 10:8 : [ch. 9:6]
  17. Hosea 10:8 : Luke 23:30; Rev. 6:16; [Isa. 2:19]
  18. Hosea 10:9 : ch. 9:9
  19. Hosea 10:10 : [Ex. 32:34]
  20. Hosea 10:10 : ch. 7:12
  21. Hosea 10:10 : [1 Kgs. 12:28]
  22. Hosea 10:11 : [Deut. 25:4; 1 Cor. 9:9; 1 Tim. 5:18]
  23. Hosea 10:11 : See ch. 6:4
  24. Hosea 10:11 : See ch. 6:4
  25. Hosea 10:12 : [ch. 8:7; Gal. 6:8]
  26. Hosea 10:12 : Jer. 4:3
  27. Hosea 10:12 : Isa. 45:8
  28. Hosea 10:13 : [ch. 8:7]
  29. Hosea 10:14 : [ch. 1:5]
  30. Hosea 10:14 : 2 Kgs. 17:3
  31. Hosea 10:14 : [ch. 13:16]
  32. Hosea 10:15 : [ver. 5]
  33. Hosea 10:15 : [See ver. 6 above]; ch. 5:13
  34. Hosea 11:1 : [ch. 2:15]
  35. Hosea 11:1 : Deut. 7:8; [ch. 14:4]
  36. Hosea 11:1 : Cited Matt. 2:15
  37. Hosea 11:1 : Ex. 4:22; [Mal. 1:6]
  38. Hosea 11:2 : [ver. 7]
  39. Hosea 11:2 : [ch. 2:13; 13:1, 2]
  40. Hosea 11:3 : [ch. 7:15; Deut. 1:31]
  41. Hosea 11:3 : Ex. 15:26
  42. Hosea 11:4 : Jer. 31:3; [John 6:44; 12:32]
  43. Hosea 11:4 : Lev. 26:13
  44. Hosea 11:4 : See Ps. 78:24-29
  45. Hosea 11:5 : [ch. 8:13]
  46. Hosea 11:5 : [ch. 10:3]
  47. Hosea 11:5 : [2 Kgs. 17:13, 14]
  48. Hosea 11:5 : [ch. 4:16; 7:16]
  49. Hosea 11:6 : [ch. 10:14]
  50. Hosea 11:6 : ch. 10:6
  51. Hosea 11:7 : ch. 14:4
  52. Hosea 11:7 : [ver. 2]
  53. Hosea 11:8 : [Gen. 19:24, 25; Jer. 49:18; 50:40; Amos 4:11; Jude 7]
  54. Hosea 11:8 : Gen. 14:8; Deut. 29:23
  55. Hosea 11:8 : Gen. 14:8; Deut. 29:23
  56. Hosea 11:8 : [Deut. 32:36]
  57. Hosea 11:9 : See Num. 23:19
  58. Hosea 11:9 : See Isa. 12:6
  59. Hosea 11:10 : [ch. 3:5]
  60. Hosea 11:10 : Isa. 31:4; Jer. 25:30; Joel 3:16; Amos 1:2
  61. Hosea 11:10 : Isa. 11:11; Zech. 8:7
  62. Hosea 11:11 : See ch. 8:13
  63. Hosea 11:11 : Isa. 60:8
  64. Hosea 11:11 : Zech. 10:6, 10; [ch. 9:3]
  65. Hosea 11:12 : [ch. 7:13]
  66. Hosea 12:1 : [ch. 13:15; Jer. 18:17]
  67. Hosea 12:1 : [See ch. 11:12 above]; [ch. 7:13]
  68. Hosea 12:1 : See ch. 5:13
  69. Hosea 12:1 : [ch. 7:11; 2 Kgs. 17:4]
  70. Hosea 12:2 : See ch. 4:1
  71. Hosea 12:3 : Gen. 25:26; [Gen. 27:36]
  72. Hosea 12:4 : Gen. 28:12, 19; 35:9, 10, 15
  73. Hosea 12:5 : Ex. 3:15
  74. Hosea 12:6 : ch. 14:1, 2; Joel 2:12, 13
  75. Hosea 12:6 : [Mic. 6:8]
  76. Hosea 12:7 : Amos 8:5; Mic. 6:11; [Prov. 11:1; 20:23]
  77. Hosea 12:7 : Mic. 2:2
  78. Hosea 12:8 : Zech. 11:5; Rev. 3:17
  79. Hosea 12:8 : [Deut. 29:19]
  80. Hosea 12:9 : ch. 13:4
  81. Hosea 12:9 : See Lev. 23:39-43; Neh. 8:14-18
  82. Hosea 12:10 : [2 Kgs. 17:13]
  83. Hosea 12:10 : [Joel 2:28]
  84. Hosea 12:11 : ch. 6:8
  85. Hosea 12:11 : ch. 4:15; 9:15
  86. Hosea 12:11 : ch. 8:11
  87. Hosea 12:11 : ch. 10:4
  88. Hosea 12:12 : Gen. 28:5
  89. Hosea 12:12 : Gen. 29:20, 28
  90. Hosea 12:13 : [Deut. 18:15]
  91. Hosea 12:13 : Ex. 12:50, 51; Ps. 77:20; See Isa. 63:11-14
  92. Hosea 12:14 : 2 Kgs. 17:17
  93. Hosea 12:14 : See ch. 4:2
  94. Hosea 12:14 : ver. 2
  95. Hosea 13:1 : [Amos 6:13]
  96. Hosea 13:1 : See ch. 11:2
  97. Hosea 13:2 : ch. 2:8
  98. Hosea 13:2 : [Ps. 115:4; Isa. 40:19, 20]
  99. Hosea 13:2 : [1 Kgs. 19:18; Job 31:26, 27]
  100. Hosea 13:3 : ch. 6:4
  101. Hosea 13:3 : ch. 6:4
  102. Hosea 13:3 : See Ps. 1:4
  103. Hosea 13:3 : See Ps. 68:2
  104. Hosea 13:4 : ch. 12:9
  105. Hosea 13:4 : See Ex. 20:3
  106. Hosea 13:4 : Isa. 43:11; 45:21
  107. Hosea 13:5 : Deut. 2:7; Amos 3:2
  108. Hosea 13:6 : [ch. 4:7]
  109. Hosea 13:6 : Deut. 8:12, 14; [Deut. 32:15]
  110. Hosea 13:6 : Deut. 8:12, 14; [Deut. 32:15]
  111. Hosea 13:7 : ch. 5:14
  112. Hosea 13:7 : Jer. 5:6
  113. Hosea 13:8 : 2 Sam. 17:8; Prov. 17:12
  114. Hosea 13:8 : [ch. 2:12]
  115. Hosea 13:9 : [Deut. 33:26]
  116. Hosea 13:10 : [ch. 8:4; 10:3]
  117. Hosea 13:10 : 1 Sam. 8:5, 19
  118. Hosea 13:11 : [1 Sam. 8:22]
  119. Hosea 13:11 : [1 Sam. 15:23]
  120. Hosea 13:12 : Job 14:17
  121. Hosea 13:12 : Job 14:17
  122. Hosea 13:13 : Isa. 13:8; 1 Thess. 5:3
  123. Hosea 13:13 : [2 Kgs. 19:3]
  124. Hosea 13:14 : Isa. 25:8; 26:19; Ezek. 37:12
  125. Hosea 13:14 : Isa. 25:8; 26:19; Ezek. 37:12
  126. Hosea 13:14 : [1 Cor. 15:55]
  127. Hosea 13:14 : [Ezek. 14:21]
  128. Hosea 13:14 : [1 Cor. 15:55]
  129. Hosea 13:14 : [Ezek. 14:21]
  130. Hosea 13:14 : [Ezek. 9:10]
  131. Hosea 13:15 : [Gen. 41:52]
  132. Hosea 13:15 : [Ezek. 19:12; Jonah 4:8; Hab. 1:9]
  133. Hosea 13:15 : [Ezek. 17:10]
  134. Hosea 13:15 : [ch. 12:8]
  135. Hosea 13:16 : [Hab. 1:11]
  136. Hosea 13:16 : 2 Kgs. 18:12
  137. Hosea 13:16 : [ch. 9:12; 10:14]
  138. Hosea 13:16 : [2 Kgs. 8:12; 15:16; Amos 1:13]
  139. Hosea 14:1 : ch. 6:1; 12:6; [ch. 3:5]
  140. Hosea 14:1 : [ch. 13:9]
  141. Hosea 14:2 : [ch. 5:15]
  142. Hosea 14:2 : Heb. 13:15; [Ps. 50:13, 14; 69:30, 31]
  143. Hosea 14:3 : ch. 5:13
  144. Hosea 14:3 : [Isa. 30:16; 31:1]
  145. Hosea 14:3 : [ver. 8]
  146. Hosea 14:3 : See Ps. 10:14
  147. Hosea 14:4 : Jer. 3:22; [ch. 6:1]
  148. Hosea 14:4 : [ch. 11:1]
  149. Hosea 14:5 : [ch. 6:3]
  150. Hosea 14:5 : Isa. 27:6
  151. Hosea 14:5 : [Ps. 92:12; Isa. 35:2]
  152. Hosea 14:6 : Ps. 52:8
  153. Hosea 14:7 : Ps. 91:1
  154. Hosea 14:8 : [ver. 3; Isa. 30:22]
  155. Hosea 14:8 : [ch. 2:8, 23; John 15:4, 5]
  156. Hosea 14:9 : Ps. 107:43; Jer. 9:12; Dan. 12:10; John 8:47; 18:37
  157. Hosea 14:9 : [Prov. 10:29; Luke 2:34; 2 Cor. 2:16]
  158. Hosea 14:9 : [Prov. 10:29; Luke 2:34; 2 Cor. 2:16]
English Standard Version (ESV)

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Jude

Greeting

1 Jude, a servant[a] of Jesus Christ and brother of James,

(A)To those who are called, (B)beloved in God the Father and (C)kept for[b] Jesus Christ:

2 May (D)mercy, (E)peace, and love be multiplied to you.

Judgment on False Teachers

3 Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our (F)common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you (G)to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. 4 For (H)certain people (I)have crept in unnoticed (J)who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert (K)the grace of our God into sensuality and (L)deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

5 Now I want (M)to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that (N)Jesus, who saved[c] a people out of the land of Egypt, (O)afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And (P)the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day— 7 just as (Q)Sodom and Gomorrah and (R)the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and (S)pursued unnatural desire,[d] serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

8 Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and (T)blaspheme the glorious ones. 9 But when (U)the archangel (V)Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing (W)about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, (X)“The Lord rebuke you.” 10 (Y)But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively. 11 Woe to them! For they walked in (Z)the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain (AA)to Balaam's error and (AB)perished in Korah's rebellion. 12 These are hidden reefs[e] (AC)at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, (AD)shepherds feeding themselves; (AE)waterless clouds, (AF)swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, (AG)uprooted; 13 (AH)wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of (AI)their own shame; (AJ)wandering stars, (AK)for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.

14 It was also about these that Enoch, (AL)the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, (AM)“Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, 15 (AN)to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have (AO)committed in such an ungodly way, and of all (AP)the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” 16 These are grumblers, malcontents, (AQ)following their own sinful desires; (AR)they are loud-mouthed boasters, (AS)showing favoritism to gain advantage.

A Call to Persevere

17 But you must (AT)remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. 18 They[f] said to you, (AU)“In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.” 19 It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, (AV)devoid of the Spirit. 20 But you, beloved, (AW)building yourselves up in your most holy faith and (AX)praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 (AY)keep yourselves in the love of God, (AZ)waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. 22 And have mercy on those who doubt; 23 save others by (BA)snatching them out of (BB)the fire; to others show mercy (BC)with fear, hating even (BD)the garment[g] stained by the flesh.

Doxology

24 (BE)Now to him who is able (BF)to keep you from stumbling and (BG)to present you (BH)blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, 25 to (BI)the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, (BJ)be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time[h] and now and forever. Amen.

Footnotes:

  1. Jude 1:1 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface
  2. Jude 1:1 Or by
  3. Jude 1:5 Some manuscripts although you fully knew it, that the Lord who once saved
  4. Jude 1:7 Greek different flesh
  5. Jude 1:12 Or are blemishes
  6. Jude 1:18 Or Christ, because they
  7. Jude 1:23 Greek chiton, a long garment worn under the cloak next to the skin
  8. Jude 1:25 Or before any age

Cross references:

  1. Jude 1:1 : Rom. 1:7; 1 Cor. 1:24
  2. Jude 1:1 : 1 Thess. 1:4; 2 Thess. 2:13
  3. Jude 1:1 : John 17:11, 15; 1 Thess. 5:23
  4. Jude 1:2 : [2 John 3]
  5. Jude 1:2 : 1 Pet. 1:2; 2 Pet. 1:2
  6. Jude 1:3 : Titus 1:4
  7. Jude 1:3 : 1 Tim. 6:12; 2 Tim. 4:7; [Luke 13:24; 1 Cor. 9:25; Phil. 1:27]
  8. Jude 1:4 : 2 Pet. 2:1
  9. Jude 1:4 : [Gal. 2:4]
  10. Jude 1:4 : 1 Pet. 2:8
  11. Jude 1:4 : See Acts 11:23
  12. Jude 1:4 : Titus 1:16; 2 Pet. 2:1; 1 John 2:22
  13. Jude 1:5 : 2 Pet. 1:12; 3:17
  14. Jude 1:5 : [1 Cor. 10:4, 5, 9]
  15. Jude 1:5 : Num. 14:29, 37; 26:64, 65; Ps. 106:26; Heb. 3:17-19
  16. Jude 1:6 : 2 Pet. 2:4; [Rev. 20:2]
  17. Jude 1:7 : See Gen. 19:24
  18. Jude 1:7 : Deut. 29:23; Hos. 11:8
  19. Jude 1:7 : 2 Pet. 2:10
  20. Jude 1:8 : 2 Pet. 2:10
  21. Jude 1:9 : 1 Thess. 4:16; [2 Pet. 2:11]
  22. Jude 1:9 : Dan. 10:13; 12:1; Rev. 12:7
  23. Jude 1:9 : [Deut. 34:6]
  24. Jude 1:9 : Zech. 3:2
  25. Jude 1:10 : 2 Pet. 2:12
  26. Jude 1:11 : See Gen. 4:5-8
  27. Jude 1:11 : See 2 Pet. 2:15
  28. Jude 1:11 : Num. 16:1-3, 31-35
  29. Jude 1:12 : 2 Pet. 2:13
  30. Jude 1:12 : Ezek. 34:2, 8, 10
  31. Jude 1:12 : Prov. 25:14; 2 Pet. 2:17
  32. Jude 1:12 : Heb. 13:9
  33. Jude 1:12 : Matt. 15:13
  34. Jude 1:13 : Isa. 57:20
  35. Jude 1:13 : [2 Cor. 4:2; Phil. 3:19]
  36. Jude 1:13 : [Isa. 14:12]
  37. Jude 1:13 : 2 Pet. 2:17
  38. Jude 1:14 : Gen. 5:18
  39. Jude 1:14 : See Deut. 33:2; [Dan. 7:10; Mark 8:38; 1 Thess. 3:13; 2 Thess. 1:7]
  40. Jude 1:15 : [2 Pet. 2:5]
  41. Jude 1:15 : 2 Pet. 2:6
  42. Jude 1:15 : 1 Sam. 2:3; Ps. 94:4; John 6:60
  43. Jude 1:16 : 2 Pet. 2:10
  44. Jude 1:16 : 2 Pet. 2:18
  45. Jude 1:16 : Lev. 19:15; Deut. 10:17
  46. Jude 1:17 : 2 Pet. 3:2
  47. Jude 1:18 : 2 Pet. 3:3
  48. Jude 1:19 : [Rom. 8:9; Phil. 3:3]
  49. Jude 1:20 : See Col. 2:7
  50. Jude 1:20 : Eph. 6:18; [Rom. 8:26]
  51. Jude 1:21 : 2 Cor. 13:14; [Acts 13:43]
  52. Jude 1:21 : Titus 2:13; 2 Pet. 3:12
  53. Jude 1:23 : Amos 4:11; Zech. 3:2
  54. Jude 1:23 : See 1 Cor. 3:15
  55. Jude 1:23 : [2 Cor. 5:11]
  56. Jude 1:23 : Rev. 3:4; [Zech. 3:4]
  57. Jude 1:24 : Rom. 16:25; Eph. 3:20
  58. Jude 1:24 : John 17:12
  59. Jude 1:24 : Col. 1:22; [1 Pet. 4:13]
  60. Jude 1:24 : Eph. 1:4; 5:27; Phil. 2:15; Rev. 14:5
  61. Jude 1:25 : John 5:44; 1 Tim. 1:17
  62. Jude 1:25 : See Rom. 11:36
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Psalm 127

Unless the Lord Builds the House

A Song of (A)Ascents. Of Solomon.

127 Unless the Lord builds the house,
those who build it labor in vain.
Unless the Lord (B)watches over the city,
the watchman stays awake in vain.
2 It is in vain that you rise up early
and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious (C)toil;
for he gives to his (D)beloved (E)sleep.

3 Behold, (F)children are a heritage from the Lord,
(G)the fruit of the womb a reward.
4 Like arrows in the hand of (H)a warrior
are the children[a] of one's youth.
5 Blessed is the man
who fills his quiver with them!
He shall not be put to shame
when he speaks with his enemies (I)in the gate.[b]

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 127:4 Or sons
  2. Psalm 127:5 Or They shall not be put to shame when they speak with their enemies in the gate

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 127:1 : [See Ps. 120, title]
  2. Psalm 127:1 : See Ps. 121:4
  3. Psalm 127:2 : Gen. 3:17, 19
  4. Psalm 127:2 : Ps. 60:5
  5. Psalm 127:2 : [Mark 4:26, 27]
  6. Psalm 127:3 : [Gen. 33:5]
  7. Psalm 127:3 : Deut. 28:4; [Ps. 132:11]
  8. Psalm 127:4 : Ps. 120:4
  9. Psalm 127:5 : See Job 5:4
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Proverbs 29:15-17

15 (A)The rod and reproof give wisdom,
but a child left to himself (B)brings shame to his mother.
16 When the wicked increase, transgression increases,
but (C)the righteous will look upon their downfall.
17 (D)Discipline your son, and he will give you rest;
he will give delight to your heart.

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 29:15 : See ver. 17
  2. Proverbs 29:15 : ch. 10:1; 17:25
  3. Proverbs 29:16 : Ps. 37:34, 36; 58:10; 91:8; 92:11
  4. Proverbs 29:17 : See ch. 13:24
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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Monday December 7, 2020 (NIV)

Hosea 6-9

Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant

6 “Come, let us (A)return to the Lord;
for (B)he has torn us, that he may heal us;
he has struck us down, and (C)he will bind us up.
2 After two days (D)he will revive us;
on the third day he will raise us up,
that we may live before him.
3 (E)Let us know; (F)let us press on to know the Lord;
(G)his going out is sure as the dawn;
he will come to us (H)as the showers,
(I)as the spring rains that water the earth.”

4 What shall I do with you, (J)O (K)Ephraim?
What shall I do with you, O (L)Judah?
Your love is (M)like a morning cloud,
(N)like the dew that goes early away.
5 Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets;
I have slain them (O)by the words of my mouth,
and my judgment goes forth as the light.
6 For (P)I desire steadfast love[a] and not sacrifice,
(Q)the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

7 But (R)like Adam they (S)transgressed the covenant;
(T)there they dealt faithlessly with me.
8 (U)Gilead is a city of evildoers,
(V)tracked with blood.
9 As robbers (W)lie in wait for a man,
so the priests band together;
they murder on the way to (X)Shechem;
they commit villainy.
10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
(Y)Ephraim's whoredom is there; (Z)Israel is defiled.

11 For you also, O (AA)Judah, (AB)a harvest is appointed.

When (AC)I restore the fortunes of my people,
7 (AD)when I would heal Israel,
the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed,
and the evil deeds of (AE)Samaria,
for (AF)they deal falsely;
the thief breaks in,
and the bandits raid outside.
2 But they do not consider
that (AG)I remember all their evil.
Now (AH)their deeds surround them;
(AI)they are before my face.
3 By their evil (AJ)they make (AK)the king glad,
and the princes by their treachery.
4 (AL)They are all adulterers;
they are like a heated oven
whose baker ceases to stir the fire,
from the kneading of the dough
until it is leavened.
5 On the day of (AM)our king, the princes
became sick with the heat of wine;
he stretched out his hand with mockers.
6 For with hearts like an oven (AN)they approach their intrigue;
all night their anger smolders;
in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
7 All of them are hot as an oven,
and they devour their rulers.
All (AO)their kings (AP)have fallen,
and none of them calls upon me.

8 Ephraim (AQ)mixes himself with the peoples;
Ephraim is a cake not turned.
9 (AR)Strangers devour his strength,
and (AS)he knows it not;
gray hairs are sprinkled upon him,
and (AT)he knows it not.
10 (AU)The pride of Israel testifies to his face;[b]
(AV)yet they do not return to the Lord their God,
nor seek him, for all this.

11 Ephraim is like a dove,
(AW)silly and without sense,
calling to (AX)Egypt, going to (AY)Assyria.
12 As they go, (AZ)I will spread over them my net;
I will bring them down like birds of the heavens;
(BA)I will discipline them (BB)according to the report made to their congregation.
13 (BC)Woe to them, for they have strayed from me!
Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me!
(BD)I would redeem them,
but (BE)they speak lies against me.

14 (BF)They do not cry to me from the heart,
but (BG)they wail upon their beds;
for grain and wine they gash themselves;
they rebel against me.
15 Although (BH)I trained and strengthened their arms,
yet they devise evil against me.
16 They (BI)return, but not upward;[c]
they are (BJ)like a treacherous bow;
their princes shall fall by the sword
because of (BK)the insolence of their tongue.
This shall be their derision (BL)in the land of Egypt.

Israel Will Reap the Whirlwind

8 Set (BM)the trumpet to your lips!
One (BN)like a vulture is over the house of the Lord,
because (BO)they have transgressed my covenant
and rebelled against my law.
2 To me they cry,
(BP)“My God, we—Israel—know you.”
3 Israel has spurned the good;
the enemy shall pursue him.

4 (BQ)They made kings, (BR)but not through me.
They set up princes, but I knew it not.
With their silver and gold they made idols
for their own destruction.
5 (BS)I have[d] spurned your calf, O Samaria.
My anger burns against them.
(BT)How long will they be incapable of innocence?
6 For it is from Israel;
a craftsman made it;
it is not God.
(BU)The calf of Samaria
(BV)shall be broken to pieces.[e]

7 For (BW)they sow the wind,
and they shall reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no heads;
it shall yield no flour;
if it were to yield,
(BX)strangers would devour it.
8 (BY)Israel is swallowed up;
already they are among the nations
as (BZ)a useless vessel.
9 For (CA)they have gone up to Assyria,
(CB)a wild donkey wandering alone;
Ephraim has hired lovers.
10 Though they hire allies among the nations,
I will soon gather them up.
And (CC)the king and princes (CD)shall soon writhe
because of the tribute.

11 Because Ephraim (CE)has multiplied altars for sinning,
they have become to him altars for sinning.
12 (CF)Were I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands,
they would be regarded as a strange thing.
13 As for my sacrificial offerings,
(CG)they sacrifice meat and eat it,
but the Lord does not accept them.
(CH)Now he will remember their iniquity
and punish their sins;
(CI)they shall return to Egypt.
14 For (CJ)Israel has forgotten (CK)his Maker
and (CL)built palaces,
and (CM)Judah has multiplied fortified cities;
so (CN)I will send a fire upon his cities,
and it shall devour her strongholds.

The Lord Will Punish Israel

9 Rejoice not, O Israel!
Exult not like the peoples;
(CO)for you have played the whore, forsaking your God.
(CP)You have loved a prostitute's wages
on all threshing floors.
2 (CQ)Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them,
and (CR)the new wine shall fail them.
3 They shall not remain in (CS)the land of the Lord,
but (CT)Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
and (CU)they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

4 (CV)They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord,
(CW)and their sacrifices shall not please him.
It shall be like (CX)mourners' bread to them;
all who eat of it shall be defiled;
for their bread shall be for their hunger only;
(CY)it shall not come to the house of the Lord.

5 (CZ)What will you do on the day of the appointed festival,
and on the day of the feast of the Lord?
6 For behold, they are going away from destruction;
but (DA)Egypt shall gather them;
Memphis shall bury them.
Nettles shall possess (DB)their precious things of silver;
(DC)thorns shall be in their tents.

7 (DD)The days of punishment have come;
the days of recompense have come;
Israel shall know it.
(DE)The prophet is a fool;
the man of the spirit is mad,
because of your great iniquity
and great hatred.
8 The prophet is (DF)the watchman of Ephraim with my God;
yet (DG)a fowler's snare is on all his ways,
and hatred in the house of his God.
9 (DH)They have deeply corrupted themselves
as (DI)in the days of Gibeah:
(DJ)he will remember their iniquity;
he will punish their sins.

10 Like grapes in the wilderness,
(DK)I found Israel.
Like the first fruit on the fig tree
in its first season,
I saw your fathers.
But (DL)they came to Baal-peor
and (DM)consecrated themselves to the thing of shame,
and (DN)became detestable like the thing they loved.
11 Ephraim's (DO)glory shall fly away like a bird—
(DP)no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
12 (DQ)Even if they bring up children,
I will bereave them till none is left.
(DR)Woe to them
when (DS)I depart from them!
13 Ephraim, (DT)as I have seen, was like a young palm[f] planted in a meadow;
but (DU)Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.[g]
14 Give them, O Lord—
what will you give?
Give them (DV)a miscarrying womb
and dry breasts.

15 Every evil of theirs is in (DW)Gilgal;
there I began to hate them.
Because of the wickedness of their deeds
I will drive them out of my house.
I will love them no more;
all (DX)their princes are (DY)rebels.

16 Ephraim is stricken;
(DZ)their root is dried up;
they shall bear no fruit.
Even (EA)though they give birth,
(EB)I will put their beloved children to death.
17 (EC)My God will reject them
because they have not listened to him;
(ED)they shall be wanderers among the nations.

Footnotes:

  1. Hosea 6:6 Septuagint mercy
  2. Hosea 7:10 Or in his presence
  3. Hosea 7:16 Or to the Most High
  4. Hosea 8:5 Hebrew He has
  5. Hosea 8:6 Or shall go up in flames
  6. Hosea 9:13 Or like Tyre
  7. Hosea 9:13 Hebrew to him who slaughters

Cross references:

  1. Hosea 6:1 : ch. 14:1; [ch. 3:5]
  2. Hosea 6:1 : ch. 5:14; [ch. 13:7, 8]
  3. Hosea 6:1 : [Isa. 30:26]
  4. Hosea 6:2 : Ps. 71:20; [Luke 24:27, 44; John 2:22; 20:9; 1 Cor. 15:4]
  5. Hosea 6:3 : [ch. 4:6]
  6. Hosea 6:3 : [ch. 4:6]
  7. Hosea 6:3 : Mic. 5:2
  8. Hosea 6:3 : [ch. 14:5]
  9. Hosea 6:3 : Joel 2:23
  10. Hosea 6:4 : [ch. 11:8]
  11. Hosea 6:4 : ver. 10, 11; ch. 4:15; 5:5; 8:14; 10:11; 11:12; 12:1, 2; See ch. 5:9-14
  12. Hosea 6:4 : ver. 10, 11; ch. 4:15; 5:5; 8:14; 10:11; 11:12; 12:1, 2; See ch. 5:9-14
  13. Hosea 6:4 : ch. 13:3
  14. Hosea 6:4 : ch. 13:3
  15. Hosea 6:5 : Jer. 23:29; [Heb. 4:12]
  16. Hosea 6:6 : Cited Matt. 9:13; 12:7; [1 Sam. 15:22]
  17. Hosea 6:6 : [ch. 2:20]
  18. Hosea 6:7 : [Gen. 3:11; Job 31:33; Rom. 5:14]
  19. Hosea 6:7 : ch. 8:1; Deut. 17:2
  20. Hosea 6:7 : ch. 5:7
  21. Hosea 6:8 : [ch. 12:11]
  22. Hosea 6:8 : See ch. 4:2
  23. Hosea 6:9 : [ch. 5:1; 7:6]
  24. Hosea 6:9 : Josh. 24:1
  25. Hosea 6:10 : ch. 5:3; 7:4; [ch. 4:2, 12, 14; 9:10]
  26. Hosea 6:10 : See ver. 4
  27. Hosea 6:11 : [See ver. 10 above]; See ver. 4
  28. Hosea 6:11 : See Joel 3:13
  29. Hosea 6:11 : Ps. 126:1; [Job 42:10]
  30. Hosea 7:1 : [ch. 6:4]
  31. Hosea 7:1 : [Jer. 23:13]
  32. Hosea 7:1 : [ch. 4:2]
  33. Hosea 7:2 : [ch. 5:3]
  34. Hosea 7:2 : Ps. 9:16; Prov. 5:22
  35. Hosea 7:2 : Ps. 90:8
  36. Hosea 7:3 : ver. 5; [Rom. 1:32]
  37. Hosea 7:3 : ver. 5; [Rom. 1:32]
  38. Hosea 7:4 : See ch. 6:10
  39. Hosea 7:5 : ver. 3
  40. Hosea 7:6 : ch. 6:9
  41. Hosea 7:7 : ch. 8:4
  42. Hosea 7:7 : 2 Kgs. 15:10, 14, 25, 30
  43. Hosea 7:8 : Ps. 106:35
  44. Hosea 7:9 : [ch. 8:7]
  45. Hosea 7:9 : Isa. 42:25
  46. Hosea 7:9 : Isa. 42:25
  47. Hosea 7:10 : ch. 5:5
  48. Hosea 7:10 : Isa. 9:13
  49. Hosea 7:11 : ch. 4:11
  50. Hosea 7:11 : [ch. 12:1; 2 Kgs. 17:4]
  51. Hosea 7:11 : See ch. 5:13
  52. Hosea 7:12 : See Ezek. 12:13
  53. Hosea 7:12 : ch. 10:10
  54. Hosea 7:12 : See Lev. 26:14-39; Deut. 28:15-68
  55. Hosea 7:13 : ch. 9:12
  56. Hosea 7:13 : ch. 13:14
  57. Hosea 7:13 : [ch. 11:12; 12:1; Mic. 6:12]
  58. Hosea 7:14 : Ps. 78:36, 37
  59. Hosea 7:14 : [Amos 6:4, 5]
  60. Hosea 7:15 : [ch. 11:3]
  61. Hosea 7:16 : [ch. 6:1]
  62. Hosea 7:16 : Ps. 78:57
  63. Hosea 7:16 : Ps. 73:9
  64. Hosea 7:16 : ch. 9:3
  65. Hosea 8:1 : ch. 5:8
  66. Hosea 8:1 : See Deut. 28:49
  67. Hosea 8:1 : ch. 6:7
  68. Hosea 8:2 : See Matt. 7:21-23
  69. Hosea 8:4 : ch. 7:7; 1 Kgs. 12:20
  70. Hosea 8:4 : [2 Chr. 13:5]
  71. Hosea 8:5 : ch. 10:5, 6; [1 Kgs. 12:28]
  72. Hosea 8:5 : [Jer. 13:27]
  73. Hosea 8:6 : [See ver. 5 above]; ch. 10:5, 6; [1 Kgs. 12:28]
  74. Hosea 8:6 : [Mic. 1:6, 7]
  75. Hosea 8:7 : [ch. 10:12, 13]
  76. Hosea 8:7 : [ch. 7:9]
  77. Hosea 8:8 : 2 Kgs. 17:6
  78. Hosea 8:8 : Jer. 22:28
  79. Hosea 8:9 : See ch. 5:13
  80. Hosea 8:9 : [Jer. 2:24]
  81. Hosea 8:10 : See Ezek. 26:7
  82. Hosea 8:10 : [ch. 4:7, 10]
  83. Hosea 8:11 : ch. 10:1; 12:11
  84. Hosea 8:12 : [Deut. 4:6, 8]
  85. Hosea 8:13 : Jer. 7:21; [Amos 4:4]
  86. Hosea 8:13 : ch. 9:9; Amos 8:7
  87. Hosea 8:13 : ch. 9:3; Deut. 28:68; [ch. 11:5]
  88. Hosea 8:14 : See ch. 6:4
  89. Hosea 8:14 : Isa. 17:7
  90. Hosea 8:14 : [Amos 5:11]
  91. Hosea 8:14 : See ch. 6:4
  92. Hosea 8:14 : Amos 2:5
  93. Hosea 9:1 : ch. 1:2
  94. Hosea 9:1 : ch. 2:5; Jer. 44:17
  95. Hosea 9:2 : [ch. 2:9]
  96. Hosea 9:2 : [ch. 2:9]
  97. Hosea 9:3 : Jer. 2:7; 16:18; See Lev. 25:23
  98. Hosea 9:3 : See ch. 8:13
  99. Hosea 9:3 : Ezek. 4:13; Dan. 1:8
  100. Hosea 9:4 : [ch. 3:4]
  101. Hosea 9:4 : [ch. 8:13]
  102. Hosea 9:4 : Deut. 26:14; Ezek. 24:17
  103. Hosea 9:4 : [Hag. 2:13]
  104. Hosea 9:5 : [Isa. 10:3]
  105. Hosea 9:6 : See ch. 8:13
  106. Hosea 9:6 : [ch. 10:8; Isa. 2:20]
  107. Hosea 9:6 : [ch. 10:8]
  108. Hosea 9:7 : See Isa. 10:3
  109. Hosea 9:7 : Ezek. 13:3
  110. Hosea 9:8 : Ezek. 3:17
  111. Hosea 9:8 : Ps. 91:3; [ch. 5:1]
  112. Hosea 9:9 : [ch. 5:2]
  113. Hosea 9:9 : ch. 10:9; Judg. 19:22
  114. Hosea 9:9 : [ch. 5:2]
  115. Hosea 9:10 : [Ps. 80:8; Isa. 5:1]
  116. Hosea 9:10 : Num. 25:3; Ps. 106:28
  117. Hosea 9:10 : [ch. 4:14]
  118. Hosea 9:10 : [Rom. 1:28, 29]
  119. Hosea 9:11 : ch. 10:5; [ch. 4:7]
  120. Hosea 9:11 : [Isa. 26:18]
  121. Hosea 9:12 : ch. 13:16
  122. Hosea 9:12 : ch. 7:13
  123. Hosea 9:12 : ch. 5:6; 1 Sam. 28:15, 16; Ezek. 10:18
  124. Hosea 9:13 : [Ezek. 27:3]
  125. Hosea 9:13 : [See ver. 12 above]; ch. 13:16
  126. Hosea 9:14 : [Luke 23:29]
  127. Hosea 9:15 : ch. 4:15; 12:11
  128. Hosea 9:15 : ch. 8:4
  129. Hosea 9:15 : [ch. 5:2]
  130. Hosea 9:16 : [ver. 11]
  131. Hosea 9:16 : [ver. 12, 13]
  132. Hosea 9:16 : [See ver. 12 above]; ch. 13:16
  133. Hosea 9:17 : [ch. 8:5]
  134. Hosea 9:17 : Deut. 28:64, 65
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3 John

Greeting

1 (A)The elder to the beloved Gaius, (B)whom I love in truth.

2 Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul. 3 For (C)I rejoiced greatly when the brothers[a] came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth. 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that (D)my children are walking in the truth.

Support and Opposition

5 Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for (E)these brothers, (F)strangers as they are, 6 who testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner (G)worthy of God. 7 For they have gone out for the sake of (H)the name, (I)accepting nothing from the Gentiles. 8 Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.

9 I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority. 10 So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church.

11 Beloved, (J)do not imitate evil but imitate good. (K)Whoever does good is from God; (L)whoever does evil has not seen God. 12 Demetrius (M)has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself. We also add our testimony, and (N)you know that our testimony is true.

Final Greetings

13 (O)I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink. 14 I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face.

15 Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends, (P)each by name.

Footnotes:

  1. 3 John 1:3 Or brothers and sisters. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, the plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters; also verses 5, 10

Cross references:

  1. 3 John 1:1 : 2 John 1
  2. 3 John 1:1 : 1 John 3:18; 2 John 1
  3. 3 John 1:3 : 2 John 4
  4. 3 John 1:4 : [1 Cor. 4:14, 15; Gal. 4:19; 1 Tim. 1:2; 2 Tim. 1:2; Titus 1:4; Philem. 10]
  5. 3 John 1:5 : [Gal. 6:10; Heb. 13:1]
  6. 3 John 1:5 : See Matt. 25:35
  7. 3 John 1:6 : 1 Thess. 2:12; [Col. 1:10]
  8. 3 John 1:7 : See Acts 5:41
  9. 3 John 1:7 : 1 Cor. 9:12, 15
  10. 3 John 1:11 : [Ps. 34:14; 37:27; Isa. 1:16, 17]
  11. 3 John 1:11 : 1 John 2:29
  12. 3 John 1:11 : See 1 John 3:6
  13. 3 John 1:12 : [1 Tim. 3:7]
  14. 3 John 1:12 : John 21:24
  15. 3 John 1:13 : 2 John 12
  16. 3 John 1:15 : John 10:3
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Psalm 126

Restore Our Fortunes, O Lord

A Song of (A)Ascents.

126 When the Lord (B)restored the fortunes of Zion,
we were like those who (C)dream.
2 Then our (D)mouth was filled with laughter,
and our tongue with shouts of joy;
then they said among the nations,
(E)“The Lord has done great things for them.”
3 The Lord has done great things for us;
we are glad.

4 Restore our fortunes, O Lord,
like streams in the Negeb!
5 (F)Those who sow in tears
shall reap with shouts of joy!
6 He who goes out weeping,
bearing the seed for sowing,
shall come home with shouts of joy,
bringing his sheaves with him.

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 126:1 : [See Ps. 120, title]
  2. Psalm 126:1 : See Ps. 14:7
  3. Psalm 126:1 : [Acts 12:9]
  4. Psalm 126:2 : Job 8:21
  5. Psalm 126:2 : See Ps. 71:19
  6. Psalm 126:5 : [Ezra 6:22; Neh. 12:43; Jer. 31:9; Gal. 6:9]; See Hag. 2:3-9
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Proverbs 29:12-14

12 If a ruler listens to falsehood,
all his officials will be wicked.
13 The poor man and the oppressor (A)meet together;
the Lord (B)gives light to the eyes of both.
14 If a king (C)faithfully judges the poor,
his throne will (D)be established forever.

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 29:13 : [ch. 22:2]
  2. Proverbs 29:13 : Ps. 13:3; See Job 25:3
  3. Proverbs 29:14 : [Ps. 72:4]
  4. Proverbs 29:14 : [ver. 4]; See ch. 16:12
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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Monday December 7, 2020 (NIV)

Hosea 6-9

Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant

6 “Come, let us (A)return to the Lord;
for (B)he has torn us, that he may heal us;
he has struck us down, and (C)he will bind us up.
2 After two days (D)he will revive us;
on the third day he will raise us up,
that we may live before him.
3 (E)Let us know; (F)let us press on to know the Lord;
(G)his going out is sure as the dawn;
he will come to us (H)as the showers,
(I)as the spring rains that water the earth.”

4 What shall I do with you, (J)O (K)Ephraim?
What shall I do with you, O (L)Judah?
Your love is (M)like a morning cloud,
(N)like the dew that goes early away.
5 Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets;
I have slain them (O)by the words of my mouth,
and my judgment goes forth as the light.
6 For (P)I desire steadfast love[a] and not sacrifice,
(Q)the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

7 But (R)like Adam they (S)transgressed the covenant;
(T)there they dealt faithlessly with me.
8 (U)Gilead is a city of evildoers,
(V)tracked with blood.
9 As robbers (W)lie in wait for a man,
so the priests band together;
they murder on the way to (X)Shechem;
they commit villainy.
10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
(Y)Ephraim's whoredom is there; (Z)Israel is defiled.

11 For you also, O (AA)Judah, (AB)a harvest is appointed.

When (AC)I restore the fortunes of my people,
7 (AD)when I would heal Israel,
the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed,
and the evil deeds of (AE)Samaria,
for (AF)they deal falsely;
the thief breaks in,
and the bandits raid outside.
2 But they do not consider
that (AG)I remember all their evil.
Now (AH)their deeds surround them;
(AI)they are before my face.
3 By their evil (AJ)they make (AK)the king glad,
and the princes by their treachery.
4 (AL)They are all adulterers;
they are like a heated oven
whose baker ceases to stir the fire,
from the kneading of the dough
until it is leavened.
5 On the day of (AM)our king, the princes
became sick with the heat of wine;
he stretched out his hand with mockers.
6 For with hearts like an oven (AN)they approach their intrigue;
all night their anger smolders;
in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
7 All of them are hot as an oven,
and they devour their rulers.
All (AO)their kings (AP)have fallen,
and none of them calls upon me.

8 Ephraim (AQ)mixes himself with the peoples;
Ephraim is a cake not turned.
9 (AR)Strangers devour his strength,
and (AS)he knows it not;
gray hairs are sprinkled upon him,
and (AT)he knows it not.
10 (AU)The pride of Israel testifies to his face;[b]
(AV)yet they do not return to the Lord their God,
nor seek him, for all this.

11 Ephraim is like a dove,
(AW)silly and without sense,
calling to (AX)Egypt, going to (AY)Assyria.
12 As they go, (AZ)I will spread over them my net;
I will bring them down like birds of the heavens;
(BA)I will discipline them (BB)according to the report made to their congregation.
13 (BC)Woe to them, for they have strayed from me!
Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me!
(BD)I would redeem them,
but (BE)they speak lies against me.

14 (BF)They do not cry to me from the heart,
but (BG)they wail upon their beds;
for grain and wine they gash themselves;
they rebel against me.
15 Although (BH)I trained and strengthened their arms,
yet they devise evil against me.
16 They (BI)return, but not upward;[c]
they are (BJ)like a treacherous bow;
their princes shall fall by the sword
because of (BK)the insolence of their tongue.
This shall be their derision (BL)in the land of Egypt.

Israel Will Reap the Whirlwind

8 Set (BM)the trumpet to your lips!
One (BN)like a vulture is over the house of the Lord,
because (BO)they have transgressed my covenant
and rebelled against my law.
2 To me they cry,
(BP)“My God, we—Israel—know you.”
3 Israel has spurned the good;
the enemy shall pursue him.

4 (BQ)They made kings, (BR)but not through me.
They set up princes, but I knew it not.
With their silver and gold they made idols
for their own destruction.
5 (BS)I have[d] spurned your calf, O Samaria.
My anger burns against them.
(BT)How long will they be incapable of innocence?
6 For it is from Israel;
a craftsman made it;
it is not God.
(BU)The calf of Samaria
(BV)shall be broken to pieces.[e]

7 For (BW)they sow the wind,
and they shall reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no heads;
it shall yield no flour;
if it were to yield,
(BX)strangers would devour it.
8 (BY)Israel is swallowed up;
already they are among the nations
as (BZ)a useless vessel.
9 For (CA)they have gone up to Assyria,
(CB)a wild donkey wandering alone;
Ephraim has hired lovers.
10 Though they hire allies among the nations,
I will soon gather them up.
And (CC)the king and princes (CD)shall soon writhe
because of the tribute.

11 Because Ephraim (CE)has multiplied altars for sinning,
they have become to him altars for sinning.
12 (CF)Were I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands,
they would be regarded as a strange thing.
13 As for my sacrificial offerings,
(CG)they sacrifice meat and eat it,
but the Lord does not accept them.
(CH)Now he will remember their iniquity
and punish their sins;
(CI)they shall return to Egypt.
14 For (CJ)Israel has forgotten (CK)his Maker
and (CL)built palaces,
and (CM)Judah has multiplied fortified cities;
so (CN)I will send a fire upon his cities,
and it shall devour her strongholds.

The Lord Will Punish Israel

9 Rejoice not, O Israel!
Exult not like the peoples;
(CO)for you have played the whore, forsaking your God.
(CP)You have loved a prostitute's wages
on all threshing floors.
2 (CQ)Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them,
and (CR)the new wine shall fail them.
3 They shall not remain in (CS)the land of the Lord,
but (CT)Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
and (CU)they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

4 (CV)They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord,
(CW)and their sacrifices shall not please him.
It shall be like (CX)mourners' bread to them;
all who eat of it shall be defiled;
for their bread shall be for their hunger only;
(CY)it shall not come to the house of the Lord.

5 (CZ)What will you do on the day of the appointed festival,
and on the day of the feast of the Lord?
6 For behold, they are going away from destruction;
but (DA)Egypt shall gather them;
Memphis shall bury them.
Nettles shall possess (DB)their precious things of silver;
(DC)thorns shall be in their tents.

7 (DD)The days of punishment have come;
the days of recompense have come;
Israel shall know it.
(DE)The prophet is a fool;
the man of the spirit is mad,
because of your great iniquity
and great hatred.
8 The prophet is (DF)the watchman of Ephraim with my God;
yet (DG)a fowler's snare is on all his ways,
and hatred in the house of his God.
9 (DH)They have deeply corrupted themselves
as (DI)in the days of Gibeah:
(DJ)he will remember their iniquity;
he will punish their sins.

10 Like grapes in the wilderness,
(DK)I found Israel.
Like the first fruit on the fig tree
in its first season,
I saw your fathers.
But (DL)they came to Baal-peor
and (DM)consecrated themselves to the thing of shame,
and (DN)became detestable like the thing they loved.
11 Ephraim's (DO)glory shall fly away like a bird—
(DP)no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
12 (DQ)Even if they bring up children,
I will bereave them till none is left.
(DR)Woe to them
when (DS)I depart from them!
13 Ephraim, (DT)as I have seen, was like a young palm[f] planted in a meadow;
but (DU)Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.[g]
14 Give them, O Lord—
what will you give?
Give them (DV)a miscarrying womb
and dry breasts.

15 Every evil of theirs is in (DW)Gilgal;
there I began to hate them.
Because of the wickedness of their deeds
I will drive them out of my house.
I will love them no more;
all (DX)their princes are (DY)rebels.

16 Ephraim is stricken;
(DZ)their root is dried up;
they shall bear no fruit.
Even (EA)though they give birth,
(EB)I will put their beloved children to death.
17 (EC)My God will reject them
because they have not listened to him;
(ED)they shall be wanderers among the nations.

Footnotes:

  1. Hosea 6:6 Septuagint mercy
  2. Hosea 7:10 Or in his presence
  3. Hosea 7:16 Or to the Most High
  4. Hosea 8:5 Hebrew He has
  5. Hosea 8:6 Or shall go up in flames
  6. Hosea 9:13 Or like Tyre
  7. Hosea 9:13 Hebrew to him who slaughters

Cross references:

  1. Hosea 6:1 : ch. 14:1; [ch. 3:5]
  2. Hosea 6:1 : ch. 5:14; [ch. 13:7, 8]
  3. Hosea 6:1 : [Isa. 30:26]
  4. Hosea 6:2 : Ps. 71:20; [Luke 24:27, 44; John 2:22; 20:9; 1 Cor. 15:4]
  5. Hosea 6:3 : [ch. 4:6]
  6. Hosea 6:3 : [ch. 4:6]
  7. Hosea 6:3 : Mic. 5:2
  8. Hosea 6:3 : [ch. 14:5]
  9. Hosea 6:3 : Joel 2:23
  10. Hosea 6:4 : [ch. 11:8]
  11. Hosea 6:4 : ver. 10, 11; ch. 4:15; 5:5; 8:14; 10:11; 11:12; 12:1, 2; See ch. 5:9-14
  12. Hosea 6:4 : ver. 10, 11; ch. 4:15; 5:5; 8:14; 10:11; 11:12; 12:1, 2; See ch. 5:9-14
  13. Hosea 6:4 : ch. 13:3
  14. Hosea 6:4 : ch. 13:3
  15. Hosea 6:5 : Jer. 23:29; [Heb. 4:12]
  16. Hosea 6:6 : Cited Matt. 9:13; 12:7; [1 Sam. 15:22]
  17. Hosea 6:6 : [ch. 2:20]
  18. Hosea 6:7 : [Gen. 3:11; Job 31:33; Rom. 5:14]
  19. Hosea 6:7 : ch. 8:1; Deut. 17:2
  20. Hosea 6:7 : ch. 5:7
  21. Hosea 6:8 : [ch. 12:11]
  22. Hosea 6:8 : See ch. 4:2
  23. Hosea 6:9 : [ch. 5:1; 7:6]
  24. Hosea 6:9 : Josh. 24:1
  25. Hosea 6:10 : ch. 5:3; 7:4; [ch. 4:2, 12, 14; 9:10]
  26. Hosea 6:10 : See ver. 4
  27. Hosea 6:11 : [See ver. 10 above]; See ver. 4
  28. Hosea 6:11 : See Joel 3:13
  29. Hosea 6:11 : Ps. 126:1; [Job 42:10]
  30. Hosea 7:1 : [ch. 6:4]
  31. Hosea 7:1 : [Jer. 23:13]
  32. Hosea 7:1 : [ch. 4:2]
  33. Hosea 7:2 : [ch. 5:3]
  34. Hosea 7:2 : Ps. 9:16; Prov. 5:22
  35. Hosea 7:2 : Ps. 90:8
  36. Hosea 7:3 : ver. 5; [Rom. 1:32]
  37. Hosea 7:3 : ver. 5; [Rom. 1:32]
  38. Hosea 7:4 : See ch. 6:10
  39. Hosea 7:5 : ver. 3
  40. Hosea 7:6 : ch. 6:9
  41. Hosea 7:7 : ch. 8:4
  42. Hosea 7:7 : 2 Kgs. 15:10, 14, 25, 30
  43. Hosea 7:8 : Ps. 106:35
  44. Hosea 7:9 : [ch. 8:7]
  45. Hosea 7:9 : Isa. 42:25
  46. Hosea 7:9 : Isa. 42:25
  47. Hosea 7:10 : ch. 5:5
  48. Hosea 7:10 : Isa. 9:13
  49. Hosea 7:11 : ch. 4:11
  50. Hosea 7:11 : [ch. 12:1; 2 Kgs. 17:4]
  51. Hosea 7:11 : See ch. 5:13
  52. Hosea 7:12 : See Ezek. 12:13
  53. Hosea 7:12 : ch. 10:10
  54. Hosea 7:12 : See Lev. 26:14-39; Deut. 28:15-68
  55. Hosea 7:13 : ch. 9:12
  56. Hosea 7:13 : ch. 13:14
  57. Hosea 7:13 : [ch. 11:12; 12:1; Mic. 6:12]
  58. Hosea 7:14 : Ps. 78:36, 37
  59. Hosea 7:14 : [Amos 6:4, 5]
  60. Hosea 7:15 : [ch. 11:3]
  61. Hosea 7:16 : [ch. 6:1]
  62. Hosea 7:16 : Ps. 78:57
  63. Hosea 7:16 : Ps. 73:9
  64. Hosea 7:16 : ch. 9:3
  65. Hosea 8:1 : ch. 5:8
  66. Hosea 8:1 : See Deut. 28:49
  67. Hosea 8:1 : ch. 6:7
  68. Hosea 8:2 : See Matt. 7:21-23
  69. Hosea 8:4 : ch. 7:7; 1 Kgs. 12:20
  70. Hosea 8:4 : [2 Chr. 13:5]
  71. Hosea 8:5 : ch. 10:5, 6; [1 Kgs. 12:28]
  72. Hosea 8:5 : [Jer. 13:27]
  73. Hosea 8:6 : [See ver. 5 above]; ch. 10:5, 6; [1 Kgs. 12:28]
  74. Hosea 8:6 : [Mic. 1:6, 7]
  75. Hosea 8:7 : [ch. 10:12, 13]
  76. Hosea 8:7 : [ch. 7:9]
  77. Hosea 8:8 : 2 Kgs. 17:6
  78. Hosea 8:8 : Jer. 22:28
  79. Hosea 8:9 : See ch. 5:13
  80. Hosea 8:9 : [Jer. 2:24]
  81. Hosea 8:10 : See Ezek. 26:7
  82. Hosea 8:10 : [ch. 4:7, 10]
  83. Hosea 8:11 : ch. 10:1; 12:11
  84. Hosea 8:12 : [Deut. 4:6, 8]
  85. Hosea 8:13 : Jer. 7:21; [Amos 4:4]
  86. Hosea 8:13 : ch. 9:9; Amos 8:7
  87. Hosea 8:13 : ch. 9:3; Deut. 28:68; [ch. 11:5]
  88. Hosea 8:14 : See ch. 6:4
  89. Hosea 8:14 : Isa. 17:7
  90. Hosea 8:14 : [Amos 5:11]
  91. Hosea 8:14 : See ch. 6:4
  92. Hosea 8:14 : Amos 2:5
  93. Hosea 9:1 : ch. 1:2
  94. Hosea 9:1 : ch. 2:5; Jer. 44:17
  95. Hosea 9:2 : [ch. 2:9]
  96. Hosea 9:2 : [ch. 2:9]
  97. Hosea 9:3 : Jer. 2:7; 16:18; See Lev. 25:23
  98. Hosea 9:3 : See ch. 8:13
  99. Hosea 9:3 : Ezek. 4:13; Dan. 1:8
  100. Hosea 9:4 : [ch. 3:4]
  101. Hosea 9:4 : [ch. 8:13]
  102. Hosea 9:4 : Deut. 26:14; Ezek. 24:17
  103. Hosea 9:4 : [Hag. 2:13]
  104. Hosea 9:5 : [Isa. 10:3]
  105. Hosea 9:6 : See ch. 8:13
  106. Hosea 9:6 : [ch. 10:8; Isa. 2:20]
  107. Hosea 9:6 : [ch. 10:8]
  108. Hosea 9:7 : See Isa. 10:3
  109. Hosea 9:7 : Ezek. 13:3
  110. Hosea 9:8 : Ezek. 3:17
  111. Hosea 9:8 : Ps. 91:3; [ch. 5:1]
  112. Hosea 9:9 : [ch. 5:2]
  113. Hosea 9:9 : ch. 10:9; Judg. 19:22
  114. Hosea 9:9 : [ch. 5:2]
  115. Hosea 9:10 : [Ps. 80:8; Isa. 5:1]
  116. Hosea 9:10 : Num. 25:3; Ps. 106:28
  117. Hosea 9:10 : [ch. 4:14]
  118. Hosea 9:10 : [Rom. 1:28, 29]
  119. Hosea 9:11 : ch. 10:5; [ch. 4:7]
  120. Hosea 9:11 : [Isa. 26:18]
  121. Hosea 9:12 : ch. 13:16
  122. Hosea 9:12 : ch. 7:13
  123. Hosea 9:12 : ch. 5:6; 1 Sam. 28:15, 16; Ezek. 10:18
  124. Hosea 9:13 : [Ezek. 27:3]
  125. Hosea 9:13 : [See ver. 12 above]; ch. 13:16
  126. Hosea 9:14 : [Luke 23:29]
  127. Hosea 9:15 : ch. 4:15; 12:11
  128. Hosea 9:15 : ch. 8:4
  129. Hosea 9:15 : [ch. 5:2]
  130. Hosea 9:16 : [ver. 11]
  131. Hosea 9:16 : [ver. 12, 13]
  132. Hosea 9:16 : [See ver. 12 above]; ch. 13:16
  133. Hosea 9:17 : [ch. 8:5]
  134. Hosea 9:17 : Deut. 28:64, 65
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3 John

Greeting

1 (A)The elder to the beloved Gaius, (B)whom I love in truth.

2 Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul. 3 For (C)I rejoiced greatly when the brothers[a] came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth. 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that (D)my children are walking in the truth.

Support and Opposition

5 Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for (E)these brothers, (F)strangers as they are, 6 who testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner (G)worthy of God. 7 For they have gone out for the sake of (H)the name, (I)accepting nothing from the Gentiles. 8 Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.

9 I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority. 10 So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church.

11 Beloved, (J)do not imitate evil but imitate good. (K)Whoever does good is from God; (L)whoever does evil has not seen God. 12 Demetrius (M)has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself. We also add our testimony, and (N)you know that our testimony is true.

Final Greetings

13 (O)I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink. 14 I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face.

15 Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends, (P)each by name.

Footnotes:

  1. 3 John 1:3 Or brothers and sisters. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, the plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters; also verses 5, 10

Cross references:

  1. 3 John 1:1 : 2 John 1
  2. 3 John 1:1 : 1 John 3:18; 2 John 1
  3. 3 John 1:3 : 2 John 4
  4. 3 John 1:4 : [1 Cor. 4:14, 15; Gal. 4:19; 1 Tim. 1:2; 2 Tim. 1:2; Titus 1:4; Philem. 10]
  5. 3 John 1:5 : [Gal. 6:10; Heb. 13:1]
  6. 3 John 1:5 : See Matt. 25:35
  7. 3 John 1:6 : 1 Thess. 2:12; [Col. 1:10]
  8. 3 John 1:7 : See Acts 5:41
  9. 3 John 1:7 : 1 Cor. 9:12, 15
  10. 3 John 1:11 : [Ps. 34:14; 37:27; Isa. 1:16, 17]
  11. 3 John 1:11 : 1 John 2:29
  12. 3 John 1:11 : See 1 John 3:6
  13. 3 John 1:12 : [1 Tim. 3:7]
  14. 3 John 1:12 : John 21:24
  15. 3 John 1:13 : 2 John 12
  16. 3 John 1:15 : John 10:3
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Psalm 126

Restore Our Fortunes, O Lord

A Song of (A)Ascents.

126 When the Lord (B)restored the fortunes of Zion,
we were like those who (C)dream.
2 Then our (D)mouth was filled with laughter,
and our tongue with shouts of joy;
then they said among the nations,
(E)“The Lord has done great things for them.”
3 The Lord has done great things for us;
we are glad.

4 Restore our fortunes, O Lord,
like streams in the Negeb!
5 (F)Those who sow in tears
shall reap with shouts of joy!
6 He who goes out weeping,
bearing the seed for sowing,
shall come home with shouts of joy,
bringing his sheaves with him.

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 126:1 : [See Ps. 120, title]
  2. Psalm 126:1 : See Ps. 14:7
  3. Psalm 126:1 : [Acts 12:9]
  4. Psalm 126:2 : Job 8:21
  5. Psalm 126:2 : See Ps. 71:19
  6. Psalm 126:5 : [Ezra 6:22; Neh. 12:43; Jer. 31:9; Gal. 6:9]; See Hag. 2:3-9
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Proverbs 29:12-14

12 If a ruler listens to falsehood,
all his officials will be wicked.
13 The poor man and the oppressor (A)meet together;
the Lord (B)gives light to the eyes of both.
14 If a king (C)faithfully judges the poor,
his throne will (D)be established forever.

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 29:13 : [ch. 22:2]
  2. Proverbs 29:13 : Ps. 13:3; See Job 25:3
  3. Proverbs 29:14 : [Ps. 72:4]
  4. Proverbs 29:14 : [ver. 4]; See ch. 16:12
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Hosea 4-5

The Lord Accuses Israel

4 (A)Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel,
for (B)the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land.
There is no faithfulness or steadfast love,
and (C)no knowledge of God in the land;
2 (D)there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery;
they break all bounds, and (E)bloodshed follows bloodshed.
3 Therefore (F)the land mourns,
and all who dwell in it languish,
(G)and also the beasts of the field
and the birds of the heavens,
(H)and even the fish of the sea are taken away.

4 (I)Yet let no one contend,
and let none accuse,
for with you is (J)my contention, O priest.[a]
5 You shall stumble by day;
the prophet also shall stumble with you by night;
and I will destroy (K)your mother.
6 My people are destroyed (L)for lack of knowledge;
(M)because you have rejected knowledge,
I reject you (N)from being a priest to me.
And since you have forgotten the law of your God,
(O)I also will forget your children.

7 (P)The more they increased,
the more they sinned against me;
(Q)I will change their glory into shame.
8 (R)They feed on the sin[b] of my people;
they are greedy for their iniquity.
9 (S)And it shall be like people, like priest;
I will punish them for their ways
and repay them for their deeds.
10 (T)They shall eat, but not be satisfied;
they shall play the whore, but not multiply,
because they have forsaken the Lord
to cherish 11 whoredom, wine, and new wine,
which (U)take away the understanding.
12 My people (V)inquire of a piece of wood,
and their walking staff gives them oracles.
For (W)a spirit of whoredom has led them astray,
and they have left their God to play the whore.
13 (X)They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains
and burn offerings on the hills,
(Y)under oak, poplar, and terebinth,
because their shade is good.
Therefore your daughters play the whore,
and your brides commit adultery.
14 I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore,
nor your brides when they commit adultery;
for (Z)the men themselves go aside with prostitutes
and sacrifice with (AA)cult prostitutes,
and a people (AB)without understanding shall come to ruin.

15 Though you play the whore, O (AC)Israel,
let not (AD)Judah become guilty.
(AE)Enter not into (AF)Gilgal,
nor go up to (AG)Beth-aven,
and swear not, “As the Lord lives.”
16 Like a stubborn heifer,
Israel is stubborn;
can the Lord now feed them
like a lamb in a broad pasture?

17 (AH)Ephraim is joined to idols;
(AI)leave him alone.
18 When their drink is gone, they give themselves to whoring;
(AJ)their rulers[c] dearly love shame.
19 (AK)A wind has wrapped them[d] in its wings,
and they shall (AL)be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

Punishment Coming for Israel and Judah

5 (AM)Hear this, O priests!
Pay attention, O house of Israel!
Give ear, O house of the king!
For the judgment is for you;
for (AN)you have been a snare at Mizpah
and a net spread upon (AO)Tabor.
2 And (AP)the revolters (AQ)have gone deep into slaughter,
but (AR)I will discipline all of them.

3 (AS)I know Ephraim,
and Israel is not hidden from me;
for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore;
Israel is defiled.
4 (AT)Their deeds do not permit them
to return to their God.
For (AU)the spirit of whoredom is within them,
and they know not the Lord.

5 (AV)The pride of Israel testifies to his face;[e]
Israel and (AW)Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt;
(AX)Judah also shall stumble with them.
6 (AY)With their flocks and herds they shall go
to seek the Lord,
(AZ)but they will not find him;
(BA)he has withdrawn from them.
7 (BB)They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord;
for they have borne alien children.
Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.

8 (BC)Blow the horn in (BD)Gibeah,
the trumpet in (BE)Ramah.
Sound the alarm at (BF)Beth-aven;
we follow you,[f] O Benjamin!
9 Ephraim shall become a desolation
in the day of punishment;
among the tribes of Israel
I make known what is sure.
10 The princes of Judah have become
like (BG)those who move the landmark;
upon them I will pour out
my wrath like water.
11 Ephraim is (BH)oppressed, crushed in judgment,
because he was determined to go after filth.[g]
12 But I am (BI)like a moth to Ephraim,
and (BJ)like dry rot to the house of Judah.

13 When Ephraim saw his sickness,
and Judah (BK)his wound,
then Ephraim went (BL)to Assyria,
and sent to the great king.[h]
(BM)But he is not able to cure you
or heal (BN)your wound.
14 For I will be (BO)like a lion to (BP)Ephraim,
and like a young lion to the house of (BQ)Judah.
(BR)I, even I, will tear and go away;
I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.

15 (BS)I will return again to my place,
until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,
and (BT)in their distress earnestly seek me.

Footnotes:

  1. Hosea 4:4 Or for your people are like those who contend with the priest
  2. Hosea 4:8 Or sin offering
  3. Hosea 4:18 Hebrew shields
  4. Hosea 4:19 Hebrew her
  5. Hosea 5:5 Or in his presence
  6. Hosea 5:8 Or after you
  7. Hosea 5:11 Or to follow human precepts
  8. Hosea 5:13 Or to King Jareb

Cross references:

  1. Hosea 4:1 : See ch. 5:1
  2. Hosea 4:1 : Isa. 3:13, 14; Jer. 25:31; Mic. 6:2
  3. Hosea 4:1 : [ver. 6, 14; Jer. 4:22; 5:4]
  4. Hosea 4:2 : [ch. 7:1]
  5. Hosea 4:2 : [ch. 6:9; 12:14; Mic. 3:10; 7:2]
  6. Hosea 4:3 : Isa. 24:4; Jer. 4:28; Joel 1:10
  7. Hosea 4:3 : [Joel 1:18; Zeph. 1:3]
  8. Hosea 4:3 : [Ezek. 38:20]
  9. Hosea 4:4 : [ver. 17]
  10. Hosea 4:4 : [Deut. 17:12]
  11. Hosea 4:5 : ch. 2:2
  12. Hosea 4:6 : [ver. 1; Isa. 5:13]
  13. Hosea 4:6 : [Prov. 1:29]
  14. Hosea 4:6 : [Ex. 19:6]
  15. Hosea 4:6 : [Jer. 23:39]
  16. Hosea 4:7 : [ch. 13:6]
  17. Hosea 4:7 : 1 Sam. 2:30; Mal. 2:9
  18. Hosea 4:8 : [Lev. 6:25, 26; 10:17]
  19. Hosea 4:9 : Isa. 24:2
  20. Hosea 4:10 : Lev. 26:26; Mic. 6:14; Hag. 1:6
  21. Hosea 4:11 : [1 Kgs. 11:4; Prov. 20:1]
  22. Hosea 4:12 : [Judg. 18:5]
  23. Hosea 4:12 : ch. 5:4; [ch. 2:2]
  24. Hosea 4:13 : Ezek. 6:13
  25. Hosea 4:13 : [Isa. 1:29]
  26. Hosea 4:14 : [ch. 9:10]
  27. Hosea 4:14 : Deut. 23:17
  28. Hosea 4:14 : [ver. 1, 6]
  29. Hosea 4:15 : See ch. 6:4
  30. Hosea 4:15 : See ch. 6:4
  31. Hosea 4:15 : Amos 4:4, 5; 5:5
  32. Hosea 4:15 : ch. 9:15; 12:11
  33. Hosea 4:15 : ch. 5:8; 10:5; [ch. 10:8; 1 Kgs. 12:29; Amos 1:5]
  34. Hosea 4:17 : [ver. 12; ch. 5:3]
  35. Hosea 4:17 : [Matt. 15:14]
  36. Hosea 4:18 : [ch. 9:10]
  37. Hosea 4:19 : ch. 13:15; Jer. 4:11; 51:1; [Zech. 5:9]
  38. Hosea 4:19 : [Isa. 1:29]
  39. Hosea 5:1 : ch. 4:1; Joel 1:2; Amos 3:1; Mic. 1:2
  40. Hosea 5:1 : [ch. 6:9; 9:8]
  41. Hosea 5:1 : Judg. 4:6
  42. Hosea 5:2 : [ch. 9:15]
  43. Hosea 5:2 : [ch. 9:9; Isa. 29:15]
  44. Hosea 5:2 : [Ps. 50:21]
  45. Hosea 5:3 : [Amos 3:2; 5:12]
  46. Hosea 5:4 : [Isa. 59:2]
  47. Hosea 5:4 : ch. 4:12
  48. Hosea 5:5 : ch. 7:10
  49. Hosea 5:5 : See ch. 6:4
  50. Hosea 5:5 : See ch. 6:4
  51. Hosea 5:6 : ch. 6:6; Isa. 1:11
  52. Hosea 5:6 : ch. 6:6; Isa. 1:11
  53. Hosea 5:6 : ch. 9:12
  54. Hosea 5:7 : ch. 6:7
  55. Hosea 5:8 : ch. 8:1; Jer. 4:5
  56. Hosea 5:8 : ch. 9:9; 10:9
  57. Hosea 5:8 : Josh. 18:25
  58. Hosea 5:8 : See ch. 4:15
  59. Hosea 5:10 : Deut. 19:14
  60. Hosea 5:11 : Deut. 28:33; Amos 4:1
  61. Hosea 5:12 : [Job 13:28]
  62. Hosea 5:12 : [Job 13:28]
  63. Hosea 5:13 : [Isa. 1:5, 6]
  64. Hosea 5:13 : ch. 7:11; 8:9; 12:1; 2 Kgs. 15:19
  65. Hosea 5:13 : ch. 14:3
  66. Hosea 5:13 : [Isa. 1:5, 6]
  67. Hosea 5:14 : ch. 13:7
  68. Hosea 5:14 : See ch. 6:4
  69. Hosea 5:14 : See ch. 6:4
  70. Hosea 5:14 : [Mic. 5:8]
  71. Hosea 5:15 : [Jer. 29:10-12; Ezek. 6:9]; See Lev. 26:40-42
  72. Hosea 5:15 : Isa. 26:16
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2 John

Greeting

1 (A)The elder to the elect lady and her children, (B)whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all who (C)know (D)the truth, 2 (E)because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever:

3 (F)Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father's Son, in truth and love.

Walking in Truth and Love

4 (G)I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we were commanded by the Father. 5 And now I ask you, dear lady—(H)not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning—(I)that we love one another. 6 And (J)this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just (K)as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it. 7 For (L)many deceivers (M)have gone out into the world, (N)those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8 Watch yourselves, (O)so that you may not lose what we[a] have worked for, but (P)may win a full reward. 9 Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, (Q)does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching (R)has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, (S)do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, 11 for whoever greets him (T)takes part in his wicked works.

Final Greetings

12 (U)Though I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink. (V)Instead I hope to come to you and talk face to face, (W)so that our joy may be complete.

13 The children of your elect sister greet you.

Footnotes:

  1. 2 John 1:8 Some manuscripts you

Cross references:

  1. 2 John 1:1 : 3 John 1; [1 Pet. 5:1]
  2. 2 John 1:1 : 1 John 3:18; 3 John 1
  3. 2 John 1:1 : John 8:32; [1 Tim. 2:4; Heb. 10:26]
  4. 2 John 1:1 : John 1:17; 14:6; See Gal. 2:5
  5. 2 John 1:2 : [1 Cor. 13:6]
  6. 2 John 1:3 : 1 Tim. 1:2; 2 Tim. 1:2; [Jude 2]
  7. 2 John 1:4 : 3 John 3, 4
  8. 2 John 1:5 : 1 John 2:7
  9. 2 John 1:5 : See 1 John 3:11
  10. 2 John 1:6 : 1 John 5:3; [1 John 2:5]; See John 14:15
  11. 2 John 1:6 : 1 John 2:24
  12. 2 John 1:7 : See 1 John 2:18, 26
  13. 2 John 1:7 : 1 John 4:1
  14. 2 John 1:7 : 1 John 2:22; 4:2, 3
  15. 2 John 1:8 : [Gal. 3:4; Heb. 10:35]
  16. 2 John 1:8 : See 1 Cor. 3:8
  17. 2 John 1:9 : See 1 John 2:23
  18. 2 John 1:9 : See 1 John 2:23
  19. 2 John 1:10 : [Rom. 16:17; Gal. 1:8, 9; 2 Thess. 3:6, 14; Titus 3:10]
  20. 2 John 1:11 : [1 Tim. 5:22]
  21. 2 John 1:12 : 3 John 13
  22. 2 John 1:12 : 3 John 14
  23. 2 John 1:12 : John 15:11; 17:13
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Psalm 125

The Lord Surrounds His People

A Song of (A)Ascents.

125 Those who (B)trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion,
which (C)cannot be moved, but abides forever.
2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
so (D)the Lord surrounds his people,
from this time forth and forevermore.
3 For (E)the scepter of wickedness shall not (F)rest
on (G)the land allotted to the righteous,
lest the righteous (H)stretch out
their hands to do wrong.
4 (I)Do good, O Lord, to those who are good,
and to those who are (J)upright in their hearts!
5 But those who (K)turn aside to their (L)crooked ways
the Lord will lead away with (M)evildoers!
(N)Peace be upon Israel!

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 125:1 : [See Ps. 120, title]
  2. Psalm 125:1 : Ps. 25:2, 3
  3. Psalm 125:1 : Ps. 93:1; 104:5; [Prov. 10:30]
  4. Psalm 125:2 : [2 Kgs. 6:17; Zech. 2:5]
  5. Psalm 125:3 : Isa. 14:5
  6. Psalm 125:3 : Isa. 30:30
  7. Psalm 125:3 : See Ps. 16:5
  8. Psalm 125:3 : Gen. 3:22; Ex. 22:8
  9. Psalm 125:4 : Ps. 119:68
  10. Psalm 125:4 : See Ps. 7:10
  11. Psalm 125:5 : See Ps. 40:4
  12. Psalm 125:5 : Prov. 2:15
  13. Psalm 125:5 : Ps. 92:7, 9; 94:4
  14. Psalm 125:5 : Ps. 128:6; Gal. 6:16
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Proverbs 29:9-11

9 If a wise man has an argument with a fool,
the fool only rages and laughs, and there is (A)no quiet.
10 Bloodthirsty men (B)hate one who is blameless
and seek the life of the upright.[a]
11 A fool gives full vent to his spirit,
but a wise man quietly holds it back.

Footnotes:

  1. Proverbs 29:10 Or but the upright seek his soul

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 29:9 : [Eccles. 4:6]
  2. Proverbs 29:10 : [Gen. 4:5, 8; 1 John 3:12]
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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Saturday December 5, 2020 (NIV)

Hosea 1-3

1 The word of the Lord that came to Hosea son of Beeri during the reigns of Uzziah,(A) Jotham,(B) Ahaz,(C) and Hezekiah,(D) kings of Judah, and of Jeroboam(E) son of Jehoash, king of Israel.

Hosea’s Marriage and Children

2 When the Lord first spoke to Hosea, he said this to him:

Go and marry a woman of promiscuity,(F)
and have children of promiscuity,
for the land is committing blatant acts of promiscuity
by abandoning the Lord.

3 So he went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.(G) 4 Then the Lord said to him:

Name him Jezreel,[a](H) for in a little while
I will bring the bloodshed of Jezreel(I)
on the house of Jehu(J)
and put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
5 On that day I will break the bow of Israel(K)
in Jezreel Valley.(L)

6 She conceived again and gave birth to a daughter, and the Lord said to him:

Name her Lo-ruhamah,[b]
for I will no longer have compassion
on the house of Israel.
I will certainly take them away.
7 But I will have compassion on the house of Judah,(M)
and I will deliver them by the Lord their God.(N)
I will not deliver them by bow, sword, or war,
or by horses and cavalry.(O)

8 After Gomer had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and gave birth to a son. 9 Then the Lord said:

Name him Lo-ammi,[c]
for you are not my people,
and I will not be your God.[d](P)
10 Yet the number of the Israelites
will be like the sand of the sea,(Q)
which cannot be measured or counted.
And in the place where they were told:
You are not my people,
they will be called: Sons of the living God.(R)
11 And the Judeans and the Israelites
will be gathered together.(S)
They will appoint for themselves a single ruler(T)
and go up from[e] the land.
For the day of Jezreel(U) will be great.
2 Call[f] your brothers: My People
and your sisters: Compassion.

Israel’s Adultery Rebuked

2 Rebuke your mother; rebuke her.(V)
For she is not my wife and I am not her husband.(W)
Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face(X)
and her adultery from between her breasts.
3 Otherwise, I will strip her naked(Y)
and expose her as she was on the day of her birth.
I will make her like a desert(Z)
and like a parched land,
and I will let her die of thirst.(AA)
4 I will have no compassion on her children(AB)
because they are the children of promiscuity.
5 Yes, their mother is promiscuous;
she conceived them and acted shamefully.(AC)
For she thought, “I will follow my lovers,(AD)
the men who give me my food and water,
my wool and flax, my oil and drink.”(AE)
6 Therefore, this is what I will do:
I will block her[g] way(AF) with thorns;(AG)
I will enclose her with a wall,
so that she cannot find her paths.(AH)
7 She will pursue her lovers but not catch them;(AI)
she will look for them but not find them.
Then she will think,
“I will go back to my former husband,(AJ)
for then it was better for me than now.”(AK)
8 She does not recognize(AL)
that it is I who gave her the grain,(AM)
the new wine, and the fresh oil.
I lavished silver and gold on her,
which they used for Baal.
9 Therefore, I will take back my grain in its time(AN)
and my new wine in its season;
I will take away my wool and linen,
which were to cover her nakedness.
10 Now I will expose her shame(AO)
in the sight of her lovers,
and no one will rescue her from my power.
11 I will put an end to all her celebrations:(AP)
her feasts,(AQ) New Moons,(AR) and Sabbaths—
all her festivals.
12 I will devastate her vines and fig trees.(AS)
She thinks that these are her wages
that her lovers have given her.
I will turn them into a thicket,(AT)
and the wild animals will eat them.(AU)
13 And I will punish her for the days of the Baals,(AV)
to which she burned incense.(AW)
She put on her rings and her jewelry(AX)
and followed her lovers,
but she forgot me.(AY)

This is the Lord’s declaration.

Israel’s Adultery Forgiven

14 Therefore, I am going to persuade her,
lead her to the wilderness,(AZ)
and speak tenderly to her.[h]
15 There I will give her vineyards back to her(BA)
and make the Valley of Achor[i](BB)
into a gateway of hope.
There she will respond as she did
in the days of her youth,(BC)
as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt.
16 In that day—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
you will call me “my husband”(BD)
and no longer call me “my Baal.”[j]
17 For I will remove the names of the Baals
from her mouth;
they will no longer be remembered by their names.
18 On that day I will make a covenant for them
with the wild animals, the birds of the sky,
and the creatures that crawl on the ground.(BE)
I will shatter bow, sword,
and weapons of war in the land[k](BF)
and will enable the people to rest securely.(BG)
19 I will take you to be my wife forever.(BH)
I will take you to be my wife in righteousness,
justice, love, and compassion.(BI)
20 I will take you to be my wife in faithfulness,
and you will know the Lord.(BJ)
21 On that day I will respond(BK)—
this is the Lord’s declaration.
I will respond to the sky,
and it will respond to the earth.
22 The earth will respond to the grain,(BL)
the new wine, and the fresh oil,
and they will respond to Jezreel.
23 I will sow her[l] in the land for myself,(BM)
and I will have compassion(BN)
on Lo-ruhamah;
I will say to Lo-ammi:(BO)
You are my people,(BP)
and he will say, “You are my God.”

Waiting for Restoration

3 Then the Lord said to me, “Go again; show love to a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress,(BQ) just as the Lord loves the Israelites though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”(BR)

2 So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and nine bushels of barley.[m][n](BS) 3 I said to her, “You are to live with me many days. You must not be promiscuous or belong to any man, and I will act the same way toward you.”

4 For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince,(BT) without sacrifice(BU) or sacred pillar,(BV) and without ephod(BW) or household idols.(BX) 5 Afterward, the people of Israel will return(BY) and seek the Lord their God and David their king.(BZ) They will come with awe to the Lord(CA) and to his goodness in the last days.

Footnotes:

  1. 1:4 = God Sows
  2. 1:6 = No Compassion
  3. 1:9 = Not My People
  4. 1:9 Lit not be yours
  5. 1:11 Or and flourish in; Hb obscure
  6. 2:1 Lit Say to
  7. 2:6 LXX, Syr; MT reads your
  8. 2:14 Lit speak to her heart
  9. 2:15 = Trouble
  10. 2:16 Or my master
  11. 2:18 Or war on the earth
  12. 2:23 = Israel
  13. 3:2 LXX reads barley and a measure of wine
  14. 3:2 Lit silver, a homer of barley, and a lethek of barley

Cross references:

  1. 1:1 : 2Ch 26:1–23; Is 1:1; Am 1:1
  2. 1:1 : 2Kg 15:5; 2Ch 27:1–9
  3. 1:1 : 2Kg 16:1–20; 2Ch 28:1–27; Is 1:1; 7:1–17; Mc 1:1
  4. 1:1 : 2Kg 18:1–20:21; 2Ch 29:1–32:33; Mc 1:1
  5. 1:1 : 2Kg 13:13; 14:23–29; Am 1:1
  6. 1:2 : Hs 3:1
  7. 1:3 : Ezk 23:4
  8. 1:4 : Hs 2:22
  9. 1:4 : 2Kg 9:24–10:11
  10. 1:4 : 2Kg 9:7; 10:30; 15:10
  11. 1:5 : Gn 49:24; Jb 29:20; Jr 49:35
  12. 1:5 : Jos 17:16; Jdg 6:33
  13. 1:7 : Is 30:18
  14. 1:7 : Jr 25:5–6; Zch 9:9–10
  15. 1:7 : Ps 44:3–7
  16. 1:9 : Ex 6:7; Lv 26:12; Jr 7:23; 11:4; 30:22; Ezk 36:28
  17. 1:10 : Gn 22:17; Jr 33:22
  18. 1:10 : Rm 9:25–27
  19. 1:11 : Jr 23:5–6; 50:4–5; Ezk 37:18–25; Hs 3:5
  20. 1:11 : Jr 30:21; Hs 3:5
  21. 1:11 : Ezk 36:9–11
  22. 2:2 : Ezk 23:45
  23. 2:2 : Is 50:1
  24. 2:2 : Jr 3:1,9,13
  25. 2:3 : Ezk 16:7,22,39
  26. 2:3 : Is 32:13–14; Hs 13:15
  27. 2:3 : Jr 14:3; Am 8:11–13
  28. 2:4 : Jr 13:14
  29. 2:5 : Is 1:21; Hs 3:1
  30. 2:5 : Jr 2:25
  31. 2:5 : Jr 44:17–18
  32. 2:6 : Jb 19:8
  33. 2:6 : Hs 9:6; 10:8
  34. 2:6 : Jr 18:15
  35. 2:7 : Hs 5:13
  36. 2:7 : Jr 2:2; 3:1; Ezk 16:8; 23:4
  37. 2:7 : Jr 14:22; Hs 13:6
  38. 2:8 : Is 1:3
  39. 2:8 : Ezk 16:19
  40. 2:9 : Hs 8:7; 9:2
  41. 2:10 : Ezk 16:37
  42. 2:11 : Jr 7:34; 16:9
  43. 2:11 : Hs 3:4; Am 5:21; 8:10
  44. 2:11 : Is 1:13–14
  45. 2:12 : Jr 5:17; 8:13
  46. 2:12 : Ps 80:12; Is 5:5; 7:23
  47. 2:12 : Is 32:13–15
  48. 2:13 : Hs 4:13; 11:2
  49. 2:13 : Jr 7:9
  50. 2:13 : Ezk 16:12,17; 23:40
  51. 2:13 : Hs 4:6; 8:14; 13:6
  52. 2:14 : Ezk 20:33–38
  53. 2:15 : Ezk 28:25–26
  54. 2:15 : Jos 7:26
  55. 2:15 : Jr 2:1–3
  56. 2:16 : Is 54:5
  57. 2:18 : Jb 5:23; Is 11:6–9; Ezk 34:25
  58. 2:18 : Ezk 39:1–10
  59. 2:18 : Ezk 34:25
  60. 2:19 : Is 62:4–5
  61. 2:19 : Is 1:27; 54:6–8
  62. 2:20 : Hs 6:6; 13:4
  63. 2:21 : Is 55:10; Zch 8:12; Mal 3:10–11
  64. 2:22 : Jr 31:12; Jl 2:19
  65. 2:23 : Jr 31:37
  66. 2:23 : Hs 1:6
  67. 2:23 : Hs 1:9
  68. 2:23 : Hs 2:1; Rm 9:25
  69. 3:1 : Hs 1:2
  70. 3:1 : 2Sm 6:19; 1Ch 16:3; Sg 2:5
  71. 3:2 : Ru 4:10
  72. 3:4 : Hs 13:10–11
  73. 3:4 : Dn 9:27; 11:31; 12:11; Hs 2:11
  74. 3:4 : Hs 10:1–2
  75. 3:4 : Ex 28:4–12; 1Sm 23:9–12
  76. 3:4 : Gn 31:19,34; Jdg 17:5; 18:14,17
  77. 3:5 : Jr 50:4–5
  78. 3:5 : Is 11:1–10; Jr 23:5–6; 33:15–16; Ezk 34:24; Rm 11:23
  79. 3:5 : Jr 31:9
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1 John 5

5 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God,(A) and everyone who loves the Father[a] also loves the one born of him. 2 This is how we know that we love God’s children: when we love God and obey[b] his commands. 3 For this is what love for God is: to keep his commands. And his commands are not a burden,(B) 4 because everyone who has been born of God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith.

The Certainty of God’s Testimony

5 Who is the one who conquers the world(C) but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?(D) 6 Jesus Christ—he is the one who came by water and blood, not by water only, but by water(E) and by blood.(F) And the Spirit is the one who testifies,(G) because the Spirit is the truth. 7 For there are three that testify:[c](H) 8 the Spirit,(I) the water, and the blood(J)—and these three are in agreement. 9 If we accept human testimony, God’s testimony(K) is greater, because it is God’s testimony that he has given about his Son. 10 The one who believes in the Son of God has this testimony within himself. The one who does not believe God has made him a liar,(L) because he has not believed in the testimony God has given about his Son. 11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 The one who has the Son has life.(M) The one who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13 I have written these things to you who believe in the name(N) of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

Effective Prayer

14 This is the confidence we have before him: If we ask(O) anything according to his will, he hears us.(P) 15 And if we know that he hears whatever we ask,(Q) we know that we have what we have asked of him.(R)

16 If anyone sees a fellow believer[d] committing a sin that doesn’t lead to death, he should ask, and God will give life to him—to those who commit sin that doesn’t lead to death. There is sin[e] that leads to death. I am not saying he should pray about that. 17 All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin that doesn’t lead to death.

Conclusion

18 We know that everyone who has been born of God does not sin, but the one who is born of God keeps him,[f](S) and the evil one does not touch him. 19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world is under the sway of the evil one. 20 And we know that the Son of God has come(T) and has given us understanding so that we may know the true one.[g] We are in the true one—that is, in his Son, Jesus Christ.(U) He is the true God and eternal life.

21 Little children, guard yourselves from idols.

Footnotes:

  1. 5:1 Or loves the one who has given birth
  2. 5:2 Other mss read keep
  3. 5:7–8 A few late Gk mss and some late Vg mss add testify in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. 8 And there are three who bear witness on earth:
  4. 5:16 Lit sees his brother or sister
  5. 5:16 Or is a sin
  6. 5:18 Other mss read himself
  7. 5:20 Other mss read the true God

Cross references:

  1. 5:1 : 1Jn 2:29
  2. 5:3 : Dt 30:11; Mt 11:30; 23:4,23
  3. 5:5 : 1Co 15:57; 2Pt 2:20
  4. 5:5 : Jn 5:19; 14:1; Heb 1:2
  5. 5:6 : Mk 1:11; Jn 1:34
  6. 5:6 : Jn 17:1; 1Jn 1:7; 4:10
  7. 5:6 : Jn 15:26; Ac 26:5
  8. 5:7 : Dt 19:15; Mt 18:16; Jn 8:17–18
  9. 5:8 : Jn 1:32; 19:30; 20:22
  10. 5:8 : Jn 19:34
  11. 5:9 : Jn 5:36–37; 8:18
  12. 5:10 : Gn 3:4
  13. 5:12 : Jn 3:15,36; 5:24; 6:40,47
  14. 5:13 : 1Jn 3:23
  15. 5:14 : Mt 7:7; Jn 14:13; 1Jn 3:22
  16. 5:14 : Mt 7:8; Jn 9:31; 11:22
  17. 5:15 : Jms 1:5
  18. 5:15 : Jn 11:22; 16:24
  19. 5:18 : Jn 17:12; 1Pt 1:5; Jd 24; Rv 3:10
  20. 5:20 : Jn 1:14; 8:42; 1Jn 1:2; 3:5,8
  21. 5:20 : Jn 10:38; 15:9; 17:21; 1Th 1:1; 1Jn 2:23–24
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Psalm 124

Psalm 124

The Lord Is on Our Side

A song of ascents. Of David.

1 If the Lord had not been on our side—
let Israel say—
2 if the Lord had not been on our side(A)
when people attacked us,(B)
3 then they would have swallowed us alive
in their burning anger against us.(C)
4 Then the water would have engulfed us;
the torrent would have swept over us;
5 the raging water would have swept over us.(D)

6 Blessed be the Lord,
who has not let us be ripped apart by their teeth.(E)
7 We have escaped like a bird from the hunter’s net;
the net is torn, and we have escaped.(F)
8 Our help is in the name of the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth.(G)

Cross references:

  1. 124:1–2 : Ps 94:17; Rm 8:31
  2. 124:2 : Ps 129:1
  3. 124:3 : Ps 35:25; 56:1; Pr 1:12
  4. 124:4–5 : Jb 22:11; Ps 32:6; 69:2
  5. 124:6 : Ps 27:2; Pr 30:14
  6. 124:7 : Ps 91:3
  7. 124:8 : Ps 115:15; 121:2
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Proverbs 29:5-8

5 A person who flatters his neighbor
spreads a net for his feet.(A)

6 An evil person is caught by sin,(B)
but the righteous one sings and rejoices.(C)

7 The righteous person knows the rights[a] of the poor,(D)
but the wicked one does not understand these concerns.

8 Mockers inflame a city,(E)
but the wise turn away anger.

Footnotes:

  1. 29:7 Lit justice

Cross references:

  1. 29:5 : Pr 26:28; 27:6; 28:23
  2. 29:6 : Pr 12:13; 18:7; Ec 9:12
  3. 29:6 : Ex 15:1
  4. 29:7 : Jb 29:16; Ps 41:1
  5. 29:8 : Pr 11:11; 26:21; 29:22
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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Friday December 4, 2020 (NIV)

Daniel 11:36-12:13

36 “Then the king will do whatever he wants.(A) He will exalt and magnify himself above every god,(B) and he will say outrageous things against the God of gods.(C) He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed,(D) because what has been decreed will be accomplished. 37 He will not show regard for the gods[a] of his ancestors, the god desired by women, or for any other god,(E) because he will magnify himself above all. 38 Instead, he will honor a god of fortresses—a god his ancestors did not know—with gold, silver, precious stones, and riches. 39 He will deal with the strongest fortresses with the help of a foreign god. He will greatly honor those who acknowledge him,[b] making them rulers over many and distributing land as a reward.

40 “At the time of the end, the king of the South will engage him in battle, but the king of the North will storm against him(F) with chariots, horsemen, and many ships. He will invade countries and sweep through them like a flood.(G) 41 He will also invade the beautiful land,(H) and many will fall. But these will escape from his power: Edom, Moab, and the prominent people[c] of the Ammonites.(I) 42 He will extend his power against the countries, and not even the land of Egypt will escape. 43 He will get control over the hidden treasures of gold and silver and over all the riches of Egypt. The Libyans and Cushites will also be in submission.[d](J) 44 But reports from the east(K) and the north will terrify him, and he will go out with great fury to annihilate and completely destroy many. 45 He will pitch his royal tents between the sea and[e] the beautiful holy mountain,(L) but he will meet his end with no one to help him.

12 At that time
Michael,(M) the great prince
who stands watch over your people, will rise up.
There will be a time of distress(N)
such as never has occurred(O)
since nations came into being until that time.(P)
But at that time all your people
who are found written in the book(Q) will escape.(R)
2 Many who sleep in the dust(S)
of the earth will awake,
some to eternal life,(T)
and some to disgrace and eternal contempt.(U)
3 Those who have insight will shine
like the bright expanse of the heavens,(V)
and those who lead many to righteousness,(W)
like the stars forever and ever.

4 “But you, Daniel, keep these words secret(X) and seal the book(Y) until the time of the end.(Z) Many will roam about,(AA) and knowledge will increase.”[f]

5 Then I, Daniel, looked, and two others were standing there, one on this bank of the river and one on the other. 6 One of them said to the man dressed in linen,(AB) who was above the water of the river,(AC) “How long until the end(AD) of these wondrous things?” 7 Then I heard the man dressed in linen, who was above the water of the river. He raised both his hands[g](AE) toward heaven and swore by him who lives eternally(AF) that it would be for a time, times, and half a time.(AG) When the power of the holy people is shattered, all these things will be completed.

8 I heard but did not understand. So I asked, “My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?” (AH)

9 He said, “Go on your way, Daniel, for the words are secret(AI) and sealed until the time of the end.(AJ) 10 Many will be purified,(AK) cleansed, and refined,(AL) but the wicked will act wickedly;(AM) none of the wicked will understand, but those who have insight will understand.(AN) 11 From the time the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation(AO) is set up,(AP) there will be 1,290 days. 12 Happy is the one who waits(AQ) for and reaches 1,335 days. 13 But as for you, go on your way to the end;[h] you will rest, and then you will rise[i] to receive(AR) your allotted inheritance at the end of the days.”

Footnotes:

  1. 11:37 Or God
  2. 11:39 Or those he acknowledges
  3. 11:41 Lit the first
  4. 11:43 Lit Cushites at his steps
  5. 11:45 Or the seas at
  6. 12:4 LXX reads and the earth will be filled with unrighteousness
  7. 12:7 Lit raised his right and his left
  8. 12:13 LXX omits to the end
  9. 12:13 Or stand

Cross references:

  1. 11:36 : Dn 5:19; 11:3,16
  2. 11:36 : Is 14:13; Dn 5:20; 8:11,25; 2Th 2:4
  3. 11:36 : Rv 13:5–6
  4. 11:36 : Is 10:25; 26:20; Dn 8:19
  5. 11:37 : 1Co 8:5–6
  6. 11:40 : Is 5:28; Jr 4:13
  7. 11:40 : Dn 11:10,26; Zch 9:14
  8. 11:41 : Is 11:14; Dn 8:9; 11:16
  9. 11:41 : Jr 48:47; 49:6
  10. 11:43 : 2Ch 12:3; Ezk 30:4; Nah 3:9
  11. 11:44 : Rv 16:12
  12. 11:45 : Is 11:9; 27:13; 65:25; 66:20; Dn 9:16,20
  13. 12:1 : Dn 10:13,21; Jd 9; Rv 12:7
  14. 12:1 : Mt 24:21; Mk 13:19
  15. 12:1 : Jr 30:7; Ezk 5:9; Dn 9:12
  16. 12:1 : Rv 16:18
  17. 12:1 : Dn 7:10; 10:21; Rv 20:12
  18. 12:1 : Php 4:3; Rv 20:12; 21:27
  19. 12:2 : Is 26:19; Ezk 37:12–14
  20. 12:2 : Mt 25:46; Jn 5:28–29
  21. 12:2 : Is 66:24
  22. 12:3 : Gn 1:6; Ps 19:1; Jn 5:35
  23. 12:3 : Is 53:11; Dn 11:33
  24. 12:4 : Dn 8:26; 12:9; Rv 10:4
  25. 12:4 : Is 8:16; Jr 32:9–12; Rv 22:10
  26. 12:4 : Dn 8:17; 12:9,13
  27. 12:4 : 2Ch 16:9; Jr 5:1; Am 8:12
  28. 12:6 : Ezk 9:2; Dn 10:5
  29. 12:6 : Dn 8:16
  30. 12:6 : Dn 8:13; Mt 24:3; Mk 13:4
  31. 12:7 : Ezk 20:5; Rv 10:5–6
  32. 12:7 : Dn 4:34
  33. 12:7 : Dn 7:25; Rv 11:2; 12:14
  34. 12:8 : 1Th 5:10; 2Pt 3:10–14
  35. 12:9 : Rv 10:4
  36. 12:9 : Dn 12:4
  37. 12:10 : Zch 13:9; Ac 1:6–7; 2Th 2:7–12
  38. 12:10 : Dn 11:35
  39. 12:10 : Is 32:6–7; Rv 22:11
  40. 12:10 : Dn 12:3; Hs 14:9; Jn 7:17; 8:47
  41. 12:11 : Dn 9:27
  42. 12:11 : Dn 11:31; Mt 24:15; Mk 13:14
  43. 12:12 : Is 30:18
  44. 12:13 : Is 57:2; Rv 14:13
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1 John 4

The Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Error

4 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits(A) to see if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

2 This is how you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh(B) is from God,(C) 3 but every spirit that does not confess Jesus[a] is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist,(D) which you have heard is coming; even now it is already in the world.

4 You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the one who is in you(E) is greater than the one who is in the world.(F) 5 They are from the world.(G) Therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God. Anyone who knows God listens to us;(H) anyone who is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.(I)

Knowing God through Love

7 Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God(J) and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 God’s love was revealed among us[b] in this way: God sent(K) his one and only Son(L) into the world so that we might live(M) through him. 10 Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us(N) and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice[c](O) for our sins. 11 Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another.(P) 12 No one has ever seen God.(Q) If we love one another, God remains in[d] us and his love is made complete in us. 13 This is how we know that we remain in him(R) and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.(S) 14 And we have seen and we testify that the Father has sent his Son(T) as the world’s Savior. 15 Whoever confesses(U) that Jesus is the Son of God—God remains in him and he in God. 16 And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us.

God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. 17 In this, love is made complete with us so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment,(V) because as he is, so also are we in this world.(W) 18 There is no fear in love; instead, perfect love drives out fear,(X) because fear involves punishment.[e] So the one who fears is not complete in love.(Y) 19 We love[f] because he first loved us.(Z) 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and yet hates his brother or sister,(AA) he is a liar.(AB) For the person who does not love his brother or sister(AC) whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.[g] 21 And we have this command from him: The one who loves God must also love his brother and sister.

Footnotes:

  1. 4:3 Other mss read confess that Jesus has come in the flesh
  2. 4:9 Or in us
  3. 4:10 Or the propitiation
  4. 4:12 Or remains among
  5. 4:18 Or fear has its own punishment or torment
  6. 4:19 Other mss add him
  7. 4:20 Other mss read has seen, how is he able to love ... seen? (as a question)

Cross references:

  1. 4:1 : 1Th 5:21
  2. 4:2 : Jn 1:14; Php 2:7; 3:3
  3. 4:2 : 1Co 12:3
  4. 4:3 : 1Jn 2:18,22; 2Jn 7
  5. 4:4 : Rm 8:31; Col 1:27; 1Jn 3:20
  6. 4:4 : Jn 12:31
  7. 4:5 : Jn 17:6; 2Pt 2:20
  8. 4:6 : Jn 8:47
  9. 4:6 : Mk 13:5–6; 1Co 2:12; 1Tm 4:1
  10. 4:7 : 1Jn 2:29
  11. 4:9 : Mk 9:37
  12. 4:9 : Jn 1:14,18; 3:16,18
  13. 4:9 : Jn 10:28
  14. 4:10 : Jn 3:16
  15. 4:10 : 2Co 5:21; 1Jn 2:2
  16. 4:11 : Jn 13:14; 15:12; Rm 13:8; 1Th 4:9; 1Pt 1:22
  17. 4:12 : Ex 33:20
  18. 4:13 : Jn 15:4–7; 1Jn 2:6,24,27–28; 3:6,24; 4:15–16
  19. 4:13 : Rv 3:22
  20. 4:14 : Rm 1:3
  21. 4:15 : Jn 9:22; Php 2:6
  22. 4:17 : Mt 10:15; 11:22,24; 12:36; 2Pt 2:9; 3:7; Jd 6
  23. 4:17 : Jn 14:10–11; 15:9–10; 17:11,15,18
  24. 4:18 : Rm 8:15
  25. 4:18 : Eph 4:11–16
  26. 4:19 : 2Th 2:13
  27. 4:20 : 1Jn 2:9,11; 3:15
  28. 4:20 : 1Jn 1:10
  29. 4:20 : 1Jn 2:10; 3:10,14–17
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Psalm 123

Psalm 123

Looking for God’s Favor

A song of ascents.

1 I lift my eyes to you,
the one enthroned in heaven.(A)
2 Like a servant’s eyes on his master’s hand,
like a servant girl’s eyes on her mistress’s hand,
so our eyes are on the Lord our God
until he shows us favor.(B)

3 Show us favor, Lord, show us favor,
for we’ve had more than enough contempt.(C)
4 We’ve had more than enough
scorn from the arrogant
and contempt from the proud.(D)

Cross references:

  1. 123:1 : Ps 2:4; 121:1; 141:8
  2. 123:2 : Ps 25:15
  3. 123:3 : Neh 4:4; Ps 4:1; 119:22
  4. 123:4 : Is 32:9,11; Am 6:1
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Proverbs 29:2-4

2 When the righteous flourish, the people rejoice,
but when the wicked rule, people groan.(A)

3 A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father,(B)
but one who consorts with prostitutes destroys his wealth.(C)

4 By justice a king brings stability to a land,(D)
but a person who demands “contributions”[a]
demolishes it.(E)

Footnotes:

  1. 29:4 The Hb word for contributions usually refers to offerings in worship.

Cross references:

  1. 29:2 : Ex 2:23; Est 8:15; Pr 11:10; 28:12,28
  2. 29:3 : Pr 10:1; 15:20; 23:24–25; 27:11; 28:7
  3. 29:3 : Pr 5:9–10; 6:26; Lk 15:13,30
  4. 29:4 : 2Ch 9:8; Pr 29:14
  5. 29:4 : Pr 17:23
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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Thursday December 3, 2020 (NIV)

Daniel 11:2-35

2 Now I will tell you the truth.(A)

Prophecies about Persia and Greece

“Three more kings will arise in Persia, and the fourth will be far richer than the others. By the power he gains through his riches, he will stir up everyone against the kingdom of Greece.(B) 3 Then a warrior king will arise; he will rule a vast realm and do whatever he wants.(C) 4 But as soon as he is established, his kingdom will be broken up and divided to the four winds of heaven,(D) but not to his descendants; it will not be the same kingdom that he ruled, because his kingdom will be uprooted and will go to others besides them.(E)

Kings of the South and the North

5 “The king of the South(F) will grow powerful, but one of his commanders will grow more powerful and will rule a kingdom greater than his. 6 After some years they will form an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the South will go to the king of the North(G) to seal the agreement. She will not retain power, and his strength will not endure. She will be given up, together with her entourage, her father,[a] and the one who supported her during those times. 7 In the place of the king of the South, one from her family[b] will rise up, come against the army, and enter the fortress of the king of the North. He will take action against them and triumph. 8 He will take even their gods captive to Egypt, with their metal images and their precious articles of silver and gold.(H) For some years he will stay away from the king of the North, 9 who will enter the kingdom of the king of the South and then return to his own land.

10 “His sons will mobilize for war and assemble a large number of armed forces. They will advance, sweeping through like a flood,[c](I) and will again wage war as far as his fortress. 11 Infuriated, the king of the South will march out to fight with the king of the North, who will raise a large army, but they will be handed over to his enemy. 12 When the army is carried off, he will become arrogant and cause tens of thousands to fall, but he will not triumph. 13 The king of the North will again raise a multitude larger than the first. After some years[d](J) he will advance with a great army and many supplies.

14 “In those times many will rise up against the king of the South. Violent ones among your own people will assert themselves to fulfill a vision, but they will fail. 15 Then the king of the North will come, build up a siege ramp,(K) and capture a well-fortified city. The forces of the South will not stand; even their select troops will not be able to resist. 16 The king of the North who comes against him will do whatever he wants,(L) and no one can oppose him. He will establish himself in the beautiful land[e](M) with total destruction in his hand. 17 He will resolve(N) to come with the force of his whole kingdom and will reach an agreement with him.[f] He will give him a daughter in marriage[g] to destroy it,[h] but she will not stand with him or support him. 18 Then he will turn his attention to the coasts and islands[i](O) and capture many. But a commander will put an end to his taunting; instead, he will turn his taunts against him.(P) 19 He will turn his attention back to the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble, fall,(Q) and be no more.(R)

20 “In his place one will arise who will send out a tax collector(S) for the glory of the kingdom; but within a few days he will be broken, though not in anger[j] or in battle.

21 “In his place a despised(T) person will arise; royal honors will not be given to him, but he will come during a time of peace[k](U) and seize the kingdom by intrigue. 22 A flood of forces will be swept away before him; they will be broken, as well as the covenant prince. 23 After an alliance is made with him, he will act deceitfully. He will rise to power with a small nation.[l] 24 During a time of peace,[m] he will come into the richest parts of the province(V) and do what his fathers and predecessors never did. He will lavish plunder, loot, and wealth on his followers, and he will make plans against fortified cities, but only for a time.

25 “With a large army he will stir up his power and his courage against the king of the South. The king of the South will prepare for battle with an extremely large and powerful army, but he will not succeed, because plots will be made against him. 26 Those who eat his provisions(W) will destroy him; his army will be swept away, and many will fall slain. 27 The two kings, whose hearts are bent on evil, will speak lies(X) at the same table but to no avail, for still the end will come at the appointed time.(Y) 28 The king of the North will return to his land with great wealth, but his heart will be set against the holy covenant;[n] he will take action, then return to his own land.

29 “At the appointed time he will come again to the South, but this time[o] will not be like the first. 30 Ships of Kittim[p](Z) will come against him, and being intimidated, he will withdraw. Then he will rage against the holy covenant and take action. On his return, he will favor those who abandon the holy covenant. 31 His forces will rise up and desecrate the temple fortress. They will abolish the regular sacrifice(AA) and set up the abomination of desolation.(AB) 32 With flattery he will corrupt those who act wickedly toward the covenant, but the people who know their God will be strong and take action.(AC) 33 Those who have insight among the people(AD) will give understanding to many, yet they will fall by the sword and flame,(AE) and they will be captured and plundered for a time. 34 When they fall, they will be helped by some, but many others will join them insincerely.(AF) 35 Some of those who have insight will fall so that they may be refined,(AG) purified, and cleansed(AH) until the time of the end, for it will still come at the appointed time.

Footnotes:

  1. 11:6 Some Hb mss, Theod read the child; Syr, Vg read her children
  2. 11:7 Lit from the shoot of her roots
  3. 11:10 Lit advance and overflow and pass through
  4. 11:13 Lit At the end of the times
  5. 11:16 = Israel
  6. 11:17 = the king of the South
  7. 11:17 Lit him the daughter of women
  8. 11:17 Perhaps the kingdom
  9. 11:18 of the Mediterranean
  10. 11:20 Or not openly
  11. 11:21 Or come without warning
  12. 11:23 Or a few people
  13. 11:24 Or Without warning
  14. 11:28 Or the Jewish people and religion
  15. 11:29 Lit but the last
  16. 11:30 = the Romans

Cross references:

  1. 11:2 : Dn 8:26; 10:1,21
  2. 11:2 : Dn 8:21; 10:20
  3. 11:3 : Dn 5:19; 8:4; 11:16,36
  4. 11:4 : Jr 49:36; Ezk 37:9; Dn 7:2; 8:8; Zch 2:6; 6:5; Rv 7:1
  5. 11:4 : Jr 12:15,17; 18:7
  6. 11:5 : Dn 11:9,11,14,25,40
  7. 11:6 : Dn 11:13,15,40
  8. 11:8 : Is 37:19; 46:1–2; Jr 43:12–13
  9. 11:10 : Is 8:8; Jr 46:7–8; 51:42; Dn 9:26; 11:26,40
  10. 11:13 : Dn 4:16; 12:7
  11. 11:15 : Jr 6:6; Ezk 4:2; 17:17
  12. 11:16 : Dn 5:19; 11:3,36
  13. 11:16 : Dn 8:9; 11:41
  14. 11:17 : 2Kg 12:17; Ezk 4:3,7
  15. 11:18 : Gn 10:5; Is 66:19; Jr 2:10; 31:10; Zph 2:11
  16. 11:18 : Hs 12:14
  17. 11:19 : Ps 27:2; Jr 46:6
  18. 11:19 : Jb 20:8; Ps 37:36; Ezk 26:21
  19. 11:20 : 2Kg 23:35
  20. 11:21 : Is 53:3
  21. 11:21 : Dn 8:25; 11:24
  22. 11:24 : Nm 13:20; Neh 9:25; Ezk 34:14
  23. 11:26 : Dn 1:5,8,13,15
  24. 11:27 : Ps 12:2; Jr 9:3–5; 41:1–3
  25. 11:27 : Dn 8:19; 11:35,40; Hab 2:3
  26. 11:30 : Gn 10:4; Nm 24:24; 1Ch 1:7; Is 23:1,12; Jr 2:10
  27. 11:31 : Dn 8:11–13; 12:11
  28. 11:31 : Dn 9:27; 12:11; Mt 24:15; Mk 13:14
  29. 11:32 : Mc 5:7–9; Zch 9:13–16; 10:3–6
  30. 11:33 : Mal 2:7
  31. 11:33 : Mt 24:9; Jn 16:2; Heb 11:36–38
  32. 11:34 : Dn 11:21,32; Mt 7:15; Ac 20:29–30; Rm 16:18
  33. 11:35 : Dt 8:16; Pr 17:3; Dn 12:10; Zch 13:9; Mal 3:2–3
  34. 11:35 : Dn 12:10
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1 John 3:7-24

7 Little children, let no one deceive you. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8 The one who commits[a] sin is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God(A) was revealed(B) for this purpose: to destroy the devil’s works. 9 Everyone who has been born of God(C) does not sin,[b] because his seed(D) remains in him; he is not able to sin,[c] because he has been born of God. 10 This is how God’s children and the devil’s children become obvious. Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother or sister.(E)

Love in Action

11 For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another, 12 unlike Cain,(F) who was of the evil one(G) and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.

13 Do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates(H) you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death.(I) 15 Everyone who hates his brother or sister(J) is a murderer,(K) and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him. 16 This is how we have come to know love: He laid down his life(L) for us.(M) We should also lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.(N) 17 If anyone has this world’s goods(O) and sees a fellow believer[d] in need(P) but withholds compassion(Q) from him—how does God’s love reside in him?(R) 18 Little children, let us not love in word or speech, but in action and in truth.(S)

19 This is how we will know that we belong to the truth(T) and will reassure our hearts before him 20 whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows all things.(U)

21 Dear friends, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have confidence before God 22 and receive whatever we ask from him because we keep his commands(V) and do what is pleasing in his sight. 23 Now this is his command: that we believe in the name(W) of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another as he commanded us. 24 The one who keeps his commands remains in him,(X) and he in him. And the way we know that he remains in us(Y) is from the Spirit(Z) he has given us.

Footnotes:

  1. 3:8 Or practices
  2. 3:9 Or not practice sin
  3. 3:9 Or to keep on sinning
  4. 3:17 Lit sees his brother or sister

Cross references:

  1. 3:8 : Mk 1:11
  2. 3:8 : Jn 21:1; 2Co 4:11; 1Pt 5:4; 1Jn 5:20
  3. 3:9 : 1Jn 2:29
  4. 3:9 : 1Pt 1:23
  5. 3:10 : 1Jn 2:10; 3:14–17; 4:20–21
  6. 3:12 : Gn 4:1; Jd 11
  7. 3:12 : 2Th 3:3
  8. 3:13 : Jn 17:14
  9. 3:14 : Jn 8:51
  10. 3:15 : 1Jn 2:9,11; 4:20
  11. 3:15 : Mt 5:21–22; Jn 8:44
  12. 3:16 : Jn 10:11,14,17–18; 13:37–38; 15:13
  13. 3:16 : Is 53:10; Mk 10:45
  14. 3:16 : Mk 8:34–35; 1Co 11:1; Php 2:5–8
  15. 3:17 : Mk 12:44; Lk 15:12; 1Jn 2:16
  16. 3:17 : Ac 2:45
  17. 3:17 : 2Co 7:15
  18. 3:17 : Jms 2:15–16; 1Jn 2:5
  19. 3:18 : Mt 7:21; Jn 13:34–35; 15:12–17; Jms 1:22–25; 2:14–17
  20. 3:19 : Jn 14:6; 2Co 11:10; 3Jn 3
  21. 3:20 : Ps 139:6; Pr 2:6; Jn 14:28
  22. 3:22 : Mk 7:8; Jn 14:15; 1Jn 2:3; 5:2
  23. 3:23 : Ps 33:21; Is 50:10; Jn 1:12; 3:18; 1Jn 5:13
  24. 3:24 : Lk 11:13; Jn 15:4–7; Ac 5:32; 15:8
  25. 3:24 : Jn 6:56
  26. 3:24 : Rm 8:9–16
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Psalm 122

Psalm 122

A Prayer for Jerusalem

A song of ascents. Of David.

1 I rejoiced with those who said to me,
“Let’s go to the house of the Lord.”(A)
2 Our feet were standing
within your gates, Jerusalem(B)—

3 Jerusalem, built as a city should be,
solidly united,(C)
4 where the tribes, the Lord’s tribes, go up
to give thanks to the name of the Lord.(D)
(This is an ordinance for Israel.(E))
5 There, thrones for judgment are placed,
thrones of the house of David.(F)

6 Pray for the well-being[a] of Jerusalem:
“May those who love you be secure;(G)
7 may there be peace within your walls,
security within your fortresses.”(H)
8 Because of my brothers and friends,
I will say, “May peace be in you.”[b](I)
9 Because of the house of the Lord our God,
I will pursue your prosperity.(J)

Footnotes:

  1. 122:6 Or peace
  2. 122:8 = Jerusalem

Cross references:

  1. 122:1 : Is 2:3; Mc 4:2; Zch 8:21
  2. 122:2 : Ps 9:14; Jr 7:2
  3. 122:3 : Neh 4:6; Ps 147:2
  4. 122:4 : Is 2:3; Mc 4:2
  5. 122:4 : 1Ch 22:13
  6. 122:5 : Dt 17:8; 2Ch 19:8
  7. 122:6 : Ps 51:18; Jr 29:7
  8. 122:7 : Ps 48:3
  9. 122:8 : 1Sm 25:6; Ps 85:8
  10. 122:9 : Neh 2:10; Est 10:3
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Proverbs 29:1

29 One who becomes stiff-necked,
after many reprimands
will be shattered instantly—
beyond recovery.(A)

Cross references:

  1. 29:1 : Pr 1:24–31; 6:14–15
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