Daily reading in version Bible American Standard - English
When I would heal Israel, then is the iniquity of Ephraim uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria for they commit falsehood, and the thief entereth in, and the troop of robbers ravageth without.
And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now have their own doings beset them about they are before my face.
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
They are all adulterers they are as an oven heated by the baker he ceaseth to stir [the fire], from the kneading of the dough, until it be leavened.
On the day of our king the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine he stretched out his hand with scoffers.
For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
Ephraim, he mixeth himself among the peoples Ephraim is a cake not turned.
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it] not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth [it] not.
And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: yet they have not returned unto Jehovah their God, nor sought him, for all this.
And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding: they call unto Egypt, they go to Assyria.
When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them I will bring them down as the birds of the heavens I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.
Woe unto them! for they have wandered from me destruction unto them! for they have trespassed against me: though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
And they have not cried unto me with their heart, but they howl upon their beds: they assemble themselves for grain and new wine they rebel against me.
Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet do they devise mischief against me.
They return, but not to [him that is] on high they are like a deceitful bow their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
[Set] the trumpet to thy mouth. As an eagle [he cometh] against the house of Jehovah, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
They shall cry unto me, My God, we Israel know thee.
Israel hath cast off that which is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
They have set up kings, but not by me they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
He hath cast off thy calf, O Samaria mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
For from Israel is even this the workman made it, and it is no God yea, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: he hath no standing grain the blade shall yield no meal if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
Israel is swallowed up: now are they among the nations as a vessel wherein none delighteth.
For they are gone up to Assyria, [like] a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
Yea, though they hire among the nations, now will I gather them and they begin to be diminished by reason of the burden of the king of princes.
Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars for sinning, altars have been unto him for sinning.
I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law but they are counted as a strange thing.
As for the sacrifices of mine offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it but Jehovah accepteth them not: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins they shall return to Egypt.
For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and builded palaces and Judah hath multiplied fortified cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the castles thereof.
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, like the peoples for thou hast played the harlot, [departing] from thy God thou hast loved hire upon every grain-floor.
The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.
They shall not dwell in Jehovah's land but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
They shall not pour out wine-offerings to Jehovah, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners all that eat thereof shall be polluted for their bread shall be for their appetite it shall not come into the house of Jehovah.
What will ye do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Jehovah?
For, lo, they are gone away from destruction [yet] Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall possess them thorns shall be in their tents.
The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the man that hath the spirit is mad, for the abundance of thine iniquity, and because the enmity is great.
Ephraim [was] a watchman with my God: as for the prophet, a fowler's snare is in all his ways, [and] enmity in the house of his God.
They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.
Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, so that not a man shall be left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
Ephraim, like as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring out his children to the slayer.
Give them, O Jehovah--what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
All their wickedness is in Gilgal for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house I will love them no more all their princes are revolters.
Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb.
My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Israel is a luxuriant vine, that putteth forth his fruit: according to the abundance of his fruit he hath multiplied his altars according to the goodness of their land they have made goodly pillars.
Their heart is divided now shall they be found guilty: he will smite their altars, he will destroy their pillars.
Surely now shall they say, We have no king for we fear not Jehovah and the king, what can he do for us?
They speak [vain] words, swearing falsely in making covenants: therefore judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
The inhabitants of Samaria shall be in terror for the calves of Beth-aven for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced over it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
It also shall be carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.
[As for] Samaria, her king is cut off, as foam upon the water.
The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us and to the hills, Fall on us.
O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood the battle against the children of iniquity doth not overtake them in Gibeah.
When it is my desire, I will chastise them and the peoples shall be gathered against them, when they are bound to their two transgressions.
And Ephraim is a heifer that is taught, that loveth to tread out [the grain] but I have passed over upon her fair neck: I will set a rider on Ephraim Judah shall plow, Jacob shall break his clods.
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness break up your fallow ground for it is time to seek Jehovah, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity ye have eaten the fruit of lies for thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.
Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces with her children.
So shall Beth-el do unto you because of your great wickedness: at daybreak shall the king of Israel be utterly cut off.
God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners,
hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in [his] Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds
who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high
having become by so much better than the angels, as he hath inherited a more excellent name than they.
For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, This day have I begotten thee? and again, I will be to him a Father, And he shall be to me a Son?
And when he again bringeth in the firstborn into the world he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels winds, And his ministers a flame a fire:
but of the Son [he saith,] Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever And the sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee With the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the works of thy hands:
They shall perish but thou continuest: And they all shall wax old as doth a garment
And as a mantle shalt thou roll them up, As a garment, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, And thy years shall not fail.
But of which of the angels hath he said at any time, Sit thou on my right hand, Till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet?
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to do service for the sake of them that shall inherit salvation?