Hosea 14 Cross References - MLV

¹ O Israel, return to Jehovah your God, for you have fallen by your iniquity. ² Take with you* words and return to Jehovah. Say to him, Take away all iniquity and accept what is good. So we will render as bullocks the offering of our lips. ³ Assyria will not save us. We will not ride upon horses, nor will we say any more to the work of our hands, Our gods. For in you the fatherless finds mercy.
⁴ I will heal their backsliding. I will love them freely. For my anger is turned away from him. ⁵ I will be as the dew to Israel. He will blossom as the lily and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. ⁶ His offshoots will spread and his beauty will be as the olive tree and his smell as Lebanon.
⁷ Those who dwell under his shadow will return. They will revive as the grain and blossom as the vine. The scent of it will be as the wine of Lebanon. ⁸ Ephraim will say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered and will regard him. I am like a green fir tree. From me, your fruit is found.
⁹ Who is wise, that he may understand these things, prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Jehovah are right and the just will walk in them. But transgressors will fall in them.

³ And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you* do return to Jehovah with all your* heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you* and direct your* hearts to Jehovah and serve him only. And he will deliver you* out of the hand of the Philistines. ⁴ Then the sons of Israel did put away the Baals and the Ashtaroth and served Jehovah only.

⁶ So the posts went with the letters from the king and his rulers throughout all Israel and Judah and according to the commandment of the king, saying, You* sons of Israel, turn again to Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that he may return to the remnant of you* who escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria. ⁷ And be you* not like your* fathers and like your* brothers, who trespassed against Jehovah, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you* see.
⁸ Now be you* not stiff-necked, as your* fathers were, but yield yourselves to Jehovah and enter into his sanctuary, which he has made holy everlasting and serve Jehovah your* God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you*. ⁹ For if you* turn again to Jehovah, your* brothers and your* sons will find compassion before those who led them captive and will come again into this land. For Jehovah your* God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you*, if you* return to him.

⁶ Seek Jehovah while he may be found. Call you* upon him while he is near. ⁷ Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts. And let him return to Jehovah and he will have mercy upon him and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

¹⁹ Your own wickedness will discipline you and your backslidings will reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Jehovah your God and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

¹² Go and proclaim these words toward the north and say, Return, you backsliding Israel, says Jehovah, I will not look in anger upon you*, for I am merciful, says Jehovah. I will not keep anger everlasting.
¹³ Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Jehovah your God and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree and you* have not obeyed my voice, says Jehovah.
¹⁴ Return, O backsliding sons, says Jehovah, for I am a husband to you*. And I will take you*, one of a city and two of a family and I will bring you* to Zion.

¹ If you will return, O Israel, says Jehovah, if you will return to me and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight, then you will not be removed.

¹⁶ The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us! For we have sinned.

¹⁴ You were the anointed cherub who covers. And I set you, so that you were upon the holy mountain of God. You have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
¹⁵ You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, till unrighteousness was found in you. ¹⁶ By the abundance of your commerce they filled the midst of you with violence and you have sinned. Therefore I have cast you out of the mountain of God as profane and I have destroyed you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

⁵ And the pride of Israel testifies to his face.
Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them.

¹ Come and let us return to Jehovah, for he has torn and he will heal us. He has struck and he will bind us up.

⁶ Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice and wait for your God continually.

⁹ It is your destruction, O Israel, that you are against me, against your help.

¹² Yet even now, says Jehovah, turn to me with all your* heart and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning. ¹³ And tear your* heart and not your* garments and turn to Jehovah your* God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness and relents of the evil.

³ Therefore you say to them, Jehovah of hosts says thus:
Return to me, says Jehovah of hosts and I will return to you*, says Jehovah of hosts. ⁴ Do not be as your* fathers, to whom the former prophets cried, saying, Jehovah of hosts says thus: Return now from your* evil ways and from your* evil practices, but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says Jehovah.

¹⁸ to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary to God, in order for them to receive forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance among those who have been made holy in faith, the faith in me.
¹⁹ Hence, O King Agrippa, I did not become disobedient to the heavenly vision. ²⁰ But I was proclaiming first to them in Damascus, and in Jerusalem, and then to all the region of Judea and to the Gentiles, to repent and to turn to God, practicing works worthy of repentance.

¹³ And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against Jehovah. And Nathan said to David, Jehovah also has put away your sin; you will not die.

¹⁰ And David's heart killed* him after he had numbered the people. And David said to Jehovah, I have sinned greatly in what I have done, but now, O Jehovah, I beseech you, put away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.

²¹ And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust and you will seek me diligently, but I will not be.

³¹ For has any said to God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more; ³² teach me what I do not see; if I have done unrighteousness, I will do it no more?

² Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. ³ Because I know my transgressions and my sin is always before me.
⁴ Against you, you only, I have sinned and done what is evil in your sight, that you may be justified when you speak and may prevail when you are criticized.
⁵ Behold, I was brought out in iniquity and my mother conceived me in sin.
⁶ Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts and in the hidden part you will make me to know wisdom.
⁷ Purify me with hyssop and I will be clean. Wash me and I will be whiter than snow. ⁸ Make me to hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
⁹ Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities. ¹⁰ Create in me a clean heart, O God and renew a right spirit within me.

³⁰ I will praise the name of God with a song and will extol him with thanksgiving, ³¹ and it will please Jehovah better than an ox, or a bullock that has horns and hoofs.

⁷ And he touched my mouth with it and said, Behold, this has touched your lips and your iniquity is taken away and your sin forgiven.

²⁵ And I will sprinkle clean water upon you* and you* will be clean. I will cleanse you* from all your* filthiness and from all your* idols.
²⁶ I will also give you* a new heart and I will put a new spirit within you*. And I will take away the stony heart out of your* flesh and I will give you* a heart of flesh.

¹⁷ Let the priests, the ministers of Jehovah, weep between the porch and the altar and let them say, Spare your people, O Jehovah and do not give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?

¹⁸ Who is a God like to you, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
¹⁹ He will again have compassion upon us. He will tread our iniquities under foot and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

⁴ And he answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, Take the filthy garments from him. And to him he said, Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you and I will clothe you with rich apparel.

⁹ Therefore pray thus: our Father, the one in the heavens, let your name be made holy. ¹⁰ Let your kingdom come. Let your will happen as in heaven, also upon the earth. ¹¹ Give our needful bread to us today. ¹² And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. ¹³ And do not bring us into temptation, but rescue us from the evil one, because yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.

¹¹ Therefore if you, being evil, know how to give good presents to your children, how much more will your Father, the one in the heavens, be giving good things to those who are asking him?

² Now he said to them, Whenever you pray, say, Our Father, the one in the heavens, let your name be made holy. Let your kingdom come. Let your will happen as in heaven, also upon the earth. ³ Give our needful daily bread to us. ⁴ And forgive us our sins; for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is obligated to us. And do not bring us into temptation, but rescue us from the evil one.

¹³ Therefore if you, being evil, know how to give good presents to your children, how much more will your Father from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?

²¹ But the son said to him, Father, I have sinned at heaven, and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.
²² But the father said to his bondservants, Bring out the foremost robe and clothe him, and give him a ring for his hand and shoes for his feet; ²³ and when you have brought the fattened calf, sacrifice it, and when we eat it, we should be joyous. ²⁴ Because this one, my son, was dead and then lived again, and was perishing and then was found. And they began to be joyous.

¹³ And the tax collector, standing from afar, was not even willing to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his chest, saying, God, be lenient to me, the sinner.

²⁹ On the next-day he sees Jesus coming toward him and says, Behold, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world!

²⁷ And this is my covenant with them, whenever I take away their sins.’

⁶ to the praise of the glory of his favor, in which he has favored us in the beloved, ⁷ in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses according to the riches of his grace.

⁷ in order that in the coming ages, he might show the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For you are saved by the grace through the faith, and this thing, the gift of God, is not from you;

⁹ who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times everlasting,

¹⁴ who gave himself on our behalf, in order that he might redeem us away from all lawlessness and might cleanse a treasured people for himself, zealous of good works.

⁴ For it is impossible that the blood of oxen and male-goats should take away sins.

¹⁵ Therefore, let us always offer up a sacrifice of praising through him to God, that is, the fruit of our lips confessing in his name.

⁵ You, yourselves, like living stones, are also built up as a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

⁹ But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s ownership, that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light;

⁷ But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son is cleansing us from every sin.

⁵ And you know that, that man was manifested in order that he might take away our sins, and in him is no sin.

²² You* will not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. ²³ If you afflict them at all and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry, ²⁴ and my wrath will grow hot and I will kill you* with the sword and your* wives will be widows and your* sons fatherless.

¹⁶ Only he will not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses, inasmuch as Jehovah has said to you*, You* will hereafter return no more that way.

⁷ And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, Because you have relied on the king of Syria and have not relied on Jehovah your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped out of your hand.

¹⁴ You have seen. Because you behold mischief and spite, to repay with your hand. The poor man commits himself to you. You have been the helper of the fatherless.

⁷ Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we will make mention of the name of Jehovah our God. ⁸ They are bowed down and fallen, but we have risen and stand upright.

¹⁷ A horse is a vain thing for safety, nor does he deliver any by his great power.

⁵ A father of the fatherless and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

³ Do not put your* trust in rulers, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

⁹ Jehovah preserves the travelers. He upholds the fatherless and widow. But the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

¹⁰ Do not remove the ancient landmark. And do not enter into the fields of the fatherless, ¹¹ because their Redeemer is strong. He will plead their cause against you.

²⁹ For they will be ashamed of the oaks which you* have desired and you* will be confounded for the gardens that you* have chosen.

²⁰ Men will cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold in that day, which have been made for them to worship, to the moles and to the bats,

⁹ Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven. And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar like smashed chalk-stones, so that the Asherim and the sun-images will rise no more.

² who set out to go down into Egypt and have not asked at my mouth, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

¹⁶ but you* said, No, for we will flee upon horses. Therefore you* will flee. And you * said, We will ride upon the swift. Therefore those who pursue you* will be swift.

¹ Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses and trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek Jehovah!

³ Now the Egyptians are men and not God and their horses flesh and not spirit. And when Jehovah will stretch out his hand, both he who helps will stumble and he who is helped will fall and they will all be consumed together.

⁸ Now therefore, I beseech you, give pledges to my master the king of Assyria and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders upon them.

¹⁸ I have surely heard Ephraim sympathize within himself saying, You have disciplined me and I was disciplined as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke. Turn me back and I will be turned back, for you are Jehovah my God.
¹⁹ Surely after that I was turned back. I repented and after I was instructed, I killed* upon my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.
²⁰ Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy upon him, says Jehovah.
²¹ Set up road marks. You make guideposts. Set your heart toward the highway, even the way by which you went. Turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities. ²² How long will you go here and there, O you backsliding daughter? For Jehovah has created a new thing in the earth: a woman will encompass a man.

²⁵ And I will sprinkle clean water upon you* and you* will be clean. I will cleanse you* from all your* filthiness and from all your* idols.

²³ Neither will they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions, but I will save them out of all their dwelling-places in which they have sinned and will cleanse them. So they will be my people and I will be their God.

⁷ And he said to me, Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel everlasting. And the house of Israel will no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places, ⁸ in their setting of their threshold by my threshold and their door-post beside my door-post and there was but the wall between me and them. And they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed. Therefore I have consumed them in my anger. ⁹ Now let them put away their prostitution and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me and I will dwell in the midst of them everlasting.

¹⁷ For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth and they will no more be mentioned by their name.

¹³ When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to King Jareb. But he is not able to heal you*, nor will he cure you* of your* wound.

¹¹ And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

⁶ For even this is from Israel: the workman made it and it is no God. Yes, the calf of Samaria will be broken in pieces.

⁹ For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey alone by himself. Ephraim has hired lovers.

¹ Ephraim feeds on wind and follows after the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. And they make a covenant with Assyria and oil is carried into Egypt.

⁸ Ephraim will say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered and will regard him. I am like a green fir tree. From me, your fruit is found.

¹⁰ And it will happen in that day, says Jehovah, that I will cut off your horses out of the midst of you and will destroy your chariots, ¹¹ and I will cut off the cities of your land and will throw down all your strongholds.
¹² And I will cut off witchcrafts out of your hand and you will have no more soothsayers. ¹³ And I will cut off your graven images and your pillars out of the midst of you and you will no more worship the work of your hands. ¹⁴ And I will pluck up your Asherim out of the midst of you and I will destroy your cities.

² And it will happen in that day, says Jehovah of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land and they will no more be remembered. And I will also cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

¹⁸ I will not be leaving you orphans. I am coming to you.

²⁶ And he said, If you will diligently listen to the voice of Jehovah your God and will do what is right in his eyes and will listen to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon you, which I have put upon the Egyptians, because I am Jehovah who heals you.

⁴ And Jehovah said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people and hang them up to Jehovah before the sun, that the fierce anger of Jehovah may turn away from Israel.

¹¹ Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the sons of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the sons of Israel in my jealousy.

⁷ Jehovah did not set his love upon you*, nor choose you*, because you* were more in number than any people, for you* were the fewest of all peoples, ⁸ but because Jehovah loves you*. And because he would keep the oath which he swore to your* fathers, Jehovah has brought you* out with a mighty hand and redeemed you* out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh King of Egypt.

³⁸ But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity and did not destroy. Yes, he turned his anger away much and did not stir up all his wrath.

¹ And you will say in that day, I will give thanks to you, O Jehovah, for though you were angry with me. Your anger is turned away and you comfort me.

¹⁸ I have seen his ways and will heal him. I will lead him also and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

²² Return, you* backsliding sons, I will heal your* backslidings. Behold, we have come to you, for you are Jehovah our God.

⁶ Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them; a wolf of the evenings will destroy them; a leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out from there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backslidings are increased.

²² Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

⁷ Though our iniquities testify against us, work you for your name's sake, O Jehovah. For our backslidings are many. We have sinned against you.

¹⁴ Heal me, O Jehovah and I will be healed. Save me and I will be saved, for you are my praise.

⁶ Behold, I will bring it health and cure and I will cure them. And I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

⁷ And my people are bent on backsliding from me. Though they call them to him who is on high, none at all will exalt him.

¹⁷ Jehovah your God is in the midst of you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will rest in his love. He will joy over you with singing.

¹² But Jesus having heard it, said to them, Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are ill. ¹³ Now when you travel on, learn what is meant by, ‘I will to have mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

²⁴ All those who believe, being made righteous freely by his grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus,

¹⁹ as that, God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ not counting to them their trespasses and having placed the word of reconciliation in us. ²⁰ Therefore, we are ambassadors on behalf of Christ; as though God is encouraging you through us. We are beseeching you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. ²¹ For the one who knew no sin, he was made the sin offering on our behalf; in order that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

⁶ to the praise of the glory of his favor, in which he has favored us in the beloved,

⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, because of his much love with which he loved us, ⁵ even when we were dead through our trespasses, he made us alive together with the Christ; you are saved in his grace. ⁶ And God raised us up together with him and seated us together with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus; ⁷ in order that in the coming ages, he might show the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For you are saved by the grace through the faith, and this thing, the gift of God, is not from you; ⁹ not from works, in order that not anyone should boast.

⁴ But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love of mankind had appeared:

² My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will flow as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender grass and as the showers upon the herb.

⁴ he will be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.

³⁰ And the remnant that has escaped from the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

¹⁹ My root is spread out to the waters and the dew lays all night upon my limb s.

⁶ He will come down like rain upon the mowed grass, as showers that water the earth.

¹⁶ There will be abundance of grain in the earth upon the top of the mountains. The fruit of it will shake like Lebanon. And they from the city will flourish like the grass of the earth.

¹² The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion, but his favor is as dew upon the grass.

¹ I am a rose of Sharon. A lily of the valleys. ² As a lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters.

¹⁶ My beloved is mine and I am his. He feeds among the lilies.

⁵ Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies.

⁴ For thus Jehovah has said to me, I will be still and I will behold in my dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

¹⁹ Your dead will live. My dead bodies will arise. Awake and sing, you* who dwell in the dust, for your dew is as the dew of herbs and the earth will cast forth the dead.

⁶ In days to come Jacob will take root; Israel will blossom and bud. And they will fill the face of the world with fruit.

² It will blossom abundantly and rejoice even with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of Jehovah, the excellency of our God.

³ For I will pour water upon him who is thirsty and streams upon the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit upon your seed and my blessing upon your offspring.

²² The lord Jehovah says thus: I will also take of the lofty top of the cedar and will set it. I will crop off a tender one from the topmost of its offshoots and I will plant it upon a high and lofty mountain. ²³ I will plant it in the mountain of the height of Israel and it will bring forth branches and bear fruit and be a majestic cedar. And all birds of every wing will dwell under it; they will dwell in the shade of the branches of it.
²⁴ And all the trees of the field will know that I, Jehovah, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree and have made the dry tree to flourish. I, Jehovah, have spoken and have done it.

⁷ And the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples as dew from Jehovah, as showers upon the grass, that do not abide for man, nor wait for the sons of men.

²⁸ And why are you anxious concerning clothing? Learn from the lilies of the field, somehow they are growing; they are not laboring, nor spinning.

²⁷ Consider the lilies, somehow they grow. They do not labor nor do they spin; yet I say to you, Even Solomon in all his glory, was not dressed like one of these.

¹⁷ for the Christ to dwell in your hearts through the faith,

²⁷ And he came near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field that Jehovah has blessed.

⁸ But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the loving kindness of God everlasting and forever.

⁹ You prepared a place before it and it took deep root and filled the land. ¹⁰ The mountains were covered with the shadow of it and the branches of it were like cedars of God. ¹¹ It sent out its limbs to the sea and its offshoots to the River.

³ Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your sons like olive plants all around your table.

¹¹ Your lips, O my bride, drop the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue and the smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
¹² A garden shut up is my sister, my bride, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. ¹³ Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants, ¹⁴ spikenard and saffron, cane and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices. ¹⁵ You are a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters and flowing streams from Lebanon.

¹⁶ Jehovah called your name, A green olive tree, fair with fruit. With the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire upon it and the branches of it are broken.

⁵ He took also of the seed of the land and planted it in a fruitful soil. He placed it beside many waters. He set it as a willow tree. ⁶ And it grew and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him and the roots of it were under him. So it became a vine and brought out branches and shot forth sprigs.
⁷ There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. And behold, this vine bent its roots toward him and shot forth its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it. ⁸ It was planted in a good soil by many waters that it might bring forth branches and that it might bear fruit that it might be a splendid vine.

³ Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches and with a forest-like shade and of high stature and its top was among the thick branches. ⁴ The waters nourished it. The deep made it to grow. The rivers of it ran all around its plantation and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.
⁵ Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field and its boughs were multiplied and its branches became long because of many waters, when it shot them forth. ⁶ All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs and under its branches all the beasts of the field brought out their young and under its shadow dwelt all great nations.
⁷ Thus it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches, for its root was by many waters. ⁸ The cedars in the garden of God could not dim it. The fir trees were not like its boughs and the plane trees were not as its branches, nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.
⁹ I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.
¹⁰ Therefore thus said the lord Jehovah: Because you are exalted in stature and he has set his top among the thick branches and his heart is lifted up in his height,

¹⁰ Thus were the visions of my head upon my bed: I saw, and behold, a tree in the midst of the earth and the height of it was great. ¹¹ The tree grew and was strong and the height of it reached to heaven and the sight of it to the end of all the earth. ¹² The leaves of it were fine and the fruit of it much and food was in it for all. The beasts of the field had shadow under it and the birds of the heavens dwelt in the branches of it. And all flesh was fed from it.
¹³ I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from heaven. ¹⁴ He cried aloud and said thus, Hew down the tree and cut off its branches. Shake off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts get away from under it and the fowls from its branches.
¹⁵ Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field. And let it be wet with the dew of heaven and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth.

³¹ He placed another parable before them, saying: The kingdom of the heavens is similar to a kernel of a mustard-seed, which a man took and sowed in his field;

¹ I am the true vine and my Father is the farmer.

¹⁶ Now if the first-fruit is holy, also is the batch and if the root is holy, also are the branches. ¹⁷ But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a fellow partner of the root and of the plumpness of the olive tree among them. ¹⁸ Do not boast against the branches, but if you are boasting against them, you are not bearing the root, but the root bears you. ¹⁹ Therefore you will say, Branches were broken off, in order that I might be grafted in. ²⁰ Well; they were broken off in their unbelief but you are standing in the faith. Do not be cavalier, but fear; ²¹ for if God did not spare the natural branches, lest neither will he be sparing you. ²² Therefore, behold the kindness and severity of God, indeed severity upon those who fell, but kindness upon you, if you remain in the kindness of God : otherwise you also will be cut off. ²³ And also those will be grafted in, if they do not remain in their unbelief; for God is able to graft them in again. ²⁴ For if you were cut off from what is according to nature a wild olive tree and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree; how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

¹⁴ Now gratitude to God, who always makes us to triumph in the Christ and the aroma of his knowledge in every place is manifest through us. ¹⁵ Because we are a sweet-fragrance of Christ to God, in those who are saved and in those who are perishing;

¹⁸ But I have all things, and I am abounding. I have been filled, having accepted from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, an aroma of a sweet-fragrance, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.

⁶ Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?

¹ He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will abide under the shadow of the Almighty

⁷ Because I walk in the midst of trouble, you will give me life. You will stretch forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies and your right hand will save me.

³ As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

¹¹ I went down into the garden of nuts, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded and the pomegranates were in flower.

¹ Behold, a king will reign in righteousness and rulers will rule in justice. ² And a man will be as a hiding-place from the wind and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.

¹¹ For as the earth brings forth its bud and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth, so the lord Jehovah will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

²³ I will plant it in the mountain of the height of Israel and it will bring forth branches and bear fruit and be a majestic cedar. And all birds of every wing will dwell under it; they will dwell in the shade of the branches of it.

²² and the earth will answer the grain and the new wine and the oil and they will answer Jezreel.

² After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up and we will live before him.

⁵ I will be as the dew to Israel. He will blossom as the lily and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

¹² For there will be the seed of peace. The vine will give its fruit and the ground will give its increase and the heavens will give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.

²⁵ Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, even if he dies, he will be living;

²⁴ Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, If a kernel of grain has not fallen into the soil and died, it remains alone, but if it dies, it is bringing forth much fruit.

³⁶ You fool, what you sow is not given-life if it does not die; ³⁷ and what you sow, you do not sow the body that will become, but a naked kernel, it may be of wheat or anyone of the rest of the grains; ³⁸ but God gives it a body just-as he wills and to each seed a body of its own.

²⁷ He sings before men and says, I have sinned and perverted what was right and it did not profit me.

³² teach me what I do not see; if I have done unrighteousness, I will do it no more?

¹⁹ I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia and the myrtle and the oil tree. I will set in the desert the fir tree, the pine and the box tree together,

¹³ Instead of the thorn will come up the fir tree and instead of the brier will come up the myrtle tree. And it will be to Jehovah for a name, for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off.

¹³ The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the fir tree, the pine and the box tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary. And I will make the place of my feet glorious.

¹⁸ I have surely heard Ephraim sympathize within himself saying, You have disciplined me and I was disciplined as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke. Turn me back and I will be turned back, for you are Jehovah my God.
¹⁹ Surely after that I was turned back. I repented and after I was instructed, I killed* upon my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.
²⁰ Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy upon him, says Jehovah.

² Take with you* words and return to Jehovah. Say to him, Take away all iniquity and accept what is good. So we will render as bullocks the offering of our lips. ³ Assyria will not save us. We will not ride upon horses, nor will we say any more to the work of our hands, Our gods. For in you the fatherless finds mercy.

²⁰ And standing up, he came to his father. But while he was still distant, far from him, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell upon his neck and kissed him.

¹⁶ And we all received out of his fullness and favor in exchange-for favor.

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and says concerning him, Behold, an Israelite in whom there truly is no treachery!
⁴⁸ Nathanael says to him, From where do you know me?
Jesus answered and said to him, Before Philip summoned you, I saw you being under the fig tree.

¹ I am the true vine and my Father is the farmer. ² Every branch which is not bringing forth fruit in me, he takes it away and every branch which is bringing forth fruit, he prunes it, in order that it may bring forth more fruit. ³ Already you are clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. ⁴ Abide in me and I in you. Just-as the branch is not able to bring forth fruit from itself, if it does not abide in the vine; so neither can you if you do not abide in me. ⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, this one is bringing forth much fruit, because you are not able to do anything separate from me. ⁶ If anyone is not abiding in me, he was cast outside like a branch and was dried up, and they gather them and cast them into the fire and it is burned. ⁷ If you abide in me, and then my words should abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will happen for you. ⁸ My Father is glorified in this, in order that you may bring forth much fruit and will become my disciples.

¹⁸ Many of those who had also believed were coming, confessing and proclaiming their practices. ¹⁹ Now a considerable number of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and were burning them in the sight of all, and they calculated the prices of them and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver. ²⁰ So the word of the Lord was growing and prevailing in dominion.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, ²³ meekness and self-control. There is no law against such.

⁹ (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

¹¹ having been filled with the fruits of righteousness, which is through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

¹³ For it is God who is working in you both to will and to work, on behalf of his delight.

¹³ I am strong in all things in the Christ, who is empowering me.

⁹ For they themselves are reporting concerning us, what sort of entrance we had toward you, and how you turned from idols to God, to serve a living and true God,

¹⁷ Every good act of giving, and every complete gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor a shadow of turning.

¹⁴ like children of obedience not fashioning yourselves in your former lusts in the time of your ignorance; ¹⁵ but according to he who called you, who is holy, you yourselves also become holy in all your conduct; ¹⁶ because it has been written, ‘Become holy, because I am holy.’

³ For enough time which has passed away from our life is for us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, and having conducted-ourselves in: unbridled-lusts, lusts, drunkenness, revelings, drinking-bouts and illegal idolatries; ⁴ in which they are surprised by you, that you^\'b0 are not running together with them into the same outpouring of riotousness, blaspheming;

²⁵ Far be it from you to do such a thing, to kill a righteous man with a wicked man, that so the righteous man should be as the wicked man. Far be it from you. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

⁴ The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice, a God of faithfulness and without unrighteousness, just and right is he.

⁹ Yet the righteous will hold on his way. And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

¹⁰ Therefore listen to me, you* men of understanding. Far be it from me to sin before the Lord and pervert righteousness before the Almighty. ¹¹ For the work of a man he will render to him and cause every man to find according to his ways. ¹² Yes, certainly God will not do wrong. Neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

¹⁸ who says to a king, You are worthless, to ranking men, You * are wicked, ¹⁹ who does not respect the persons of rulers, nor regards the rich more than the poor. For they all are the work of his hands.

⁷ The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul. The testimony of Jehovah is sure, making a simple man wise. ⁸ The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart. The commandment of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes.

⁵ The man whose strength is in you is fortunate, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

⁷ They go from strength to strength; each one of them appears before God in Zion.

⁴³ He who is wise will give heed to these things and they will consider the loving kindnesses of Jehovah.

⁷ The works of his hands are truth and justice. All his precepts are sure. ⁸ They are established everlasting and forever. They are done in truth and uprightness.

⁷⁵ I know, O Jehovah, that your judgments are righteous and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

¹²⁸ Therefore I esteem all precepts concerning all things to be right. I hate every false way.

⁵ that the wise man may hear and increase in learning and that the man of understanding may attain to sound-wisdom, ⁶ to understand a proverb and a figure, the words of the wise and their dark sayings.

¹⁸ But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, that shines more and more to the perfect day.

²⁹ The way of Jehovah is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of wickedness.

²⁸ But the destruction of transgressors and sinners will be together and those who forsake Jehovah will be consumed.

¹³ Jehovah of hosts, him you* will sanctify and let him be your* fear and let him be your* dread.
¹⁴ And he will be for a sanctuary, but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a net and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ¹⁵ And many will stumble on it and fall and be broken and be snared and be taken.

⁷ The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright directs the path of the just.

¹² Who is the wise man, who may understand this and he to whom the mouth of Jehovah has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through?

²⁵ Yet you* say, The way of the Lord is not equitable. Hear now, O house of Israel. Is not my way equitable? Are not your* ways inequitable?

¹⁷ Yet the sons of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equitable. But as for them, their way is not equitable. ¹⁸ When the righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits unrighteousness, he will even die in it. ¹⁹ And when the wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is lawful and right, he will live by it.
²⁰ Yet you* say, The way of the Lord is not equitable. O house of Israel, I will judge you* everyone according to his ways.

¹⁰ Many will purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked will do wickedly. And none of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.

⁵ Jehovah in the midst of her is righteous. He will not do unrighteousness. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He does not fail, but the unjust man knows no shame.

¹⁹ The Son of Man came eating and drinking and they say, Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners! And wisdom was made righteous from her children.

¹¹ But he answered and said to them, It has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but it has not given to those men. ¹² For who ever has, to him will be given and he will abound, but who ever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

³⁴ and Simeon gave-thanks for them, and said to Mary his mother, Behold, this child is destined for the fall and the resurrection of many in Israel, and for a sign being spoken against.

²⁸ And they were all filled with fury in the synagogue, while hearing these things; ²⁹ and having risen up, they put him out, outside the city, and led him to the brow of the mountain on which their city had been built, that they might propel him off the cliff.

²³ And the fortunate one is whoever is not offended in me.

¹⁹ Now this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. ²⁰ For everyone who is practicing evil, hates the light, and is not coming to the light, in order that his works should not convict him.

⁴⁷ He who is from God hears the declarations of God, but because of this, you do not hear them, because you are not from God.

³⁹ And Jesus said, I came into this world for judgment, in order that those who do not see, may see, and those who see, may become blind.

²⁴ If I had not done the works which no other has done among them, then they were having no sin, but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

³⁷ Therefore Pilate said to him, Therefore are you not a king?
Jesus answered, You are saying that I am a king. I have been born to this end and I have come into the world to this end, in order that I might testify to the truth. Everyone who is from the truth hears my voice.

¹² So-that the law indeed is holy and the commandment holy and righteous and good.

³² Why? Because it was not from the faith, but as it was from works of the law, for they stumbled on the stone of stumbling; ³³ just-as it has been written, ‘Behold, I place a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense in Zion and everyone who believes on him will not be ashamed.’

¹⁵ Because we are a sweet-fragrance of Christ to God, in those who are saved and in those who are perishing; ¹⁶ to the one an aroma from death to death, but to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is sufficient in these things?

⁹ even he, whose presence is according to the working of the Adversary in every power and in signs and in lying wonders, ¹⁰ and in all deception of unrighteousness in those who are perishing, because they did not accept the love of the truth, that they might be saved. ¹¹ And because of this, God will be sending them a working of error, that they may believe in the lie; ¹² in order that they all might be judged who did not believe the truth, but were delighted in unrighteousness.

⁷ Therefore, to those who believe is the honor, but to the disobedient, ‘ The stone which the builders rejected, this became to them the head of the corner'; ⁸ and, ‘A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense'; those who are stumbling in the word, being disobedient, toward which they were also appointed.