Hosea 3 Cross References - Rotherham

¹ Then said Yahweh unto me, Once more, go love a woman who loveth a friend, and is an adulteress,––according to the love of Yahweh unto the sons of Israel, though they keep turning away unto other gods, and love [idolatrous] raisin–cakes. ² So I secured her to me, for fifteen pieces of silver,––and a homer of barley, and a half–homer of barley; ³ and I said unto her, Many days, shalt thou tarry for me, thou shalt not be unchaste, neither shalt thou become another man’s,––moreover also, I, [will tarry] for thee. ⁴ For, many days, shall the sons of Israel tarry, without king, and without ruler, and without sacrifice, and without pillar; and without ephod, or household gods. ⁵ Afterwards, shall the sons of Israel return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king,––and shall turn with throbbing hearts unto Yahweh and unto his goodness, in the afterpart of the days.

¹⁹ Now, Laban, had gone, to shear his sheep,––so Rachel stole the household gods that belonged to her father.

⁴¹ This, hath been my lot twenty years, in thy house,––I served thee fourteen years, for thy two daughters, And six years, for thy sheep––And thou didst change my wages ten times:––

¹² Heap on me, exceedingly, dowry and gift, and I will give, just as ye may say unto me,––but give me the young woman, to wife.

¹⁰ The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor the commander’s staff from between his feet,––Until that he come in as a Shiloh, And, his, be the obedience of the peoples:

¹⁷ If her father, utterly refuse, to give her to him, silver, shall he weigh out, according to the purchase–price of virgins.

⁴ These, therefore, are the garments which they shall make––a breastpiece, and an ephod, and a robe, and a tunic of checker work, a turban and a girdle,––so shall they make holy garments, for Aaron thy brother, and for his sons, for ministering as priests unto me.

⁶ So they rose up early, on the morrow, and offered ascending–sacrifices, and brought near peace–offerings,––and the people sat down, to eat and to drink, and then rose up––to make sport!

⁷ and put upon him the tunic, and girded him with the band, and clothed him with the robe, and put upon him the ephod, and girded him with the curiously–woven band of the ephod, and bound it to him therewith;

¹⁶ And, if, of the field of his possession, any man would hallow unto Yahweh, then shall thine estimate be according to the seed thereof,––the seed of a homer of barley, at fifty shekels of silver.

¹⁴ Now, therefore, behold me! going to my own people,––Come now! let me advise thee, what this people shall do unto thy people, in the afterpart of the days.

³⁰ In thy distress, when all these things, have found thee out––in the afterpart of the days, thou wilt return unto Yahweh thy God, and wilt hearken to his voice.

⁶ For, a holy people, art thou, unto Yahweh thy God: of thee, hath Yahweh thy God, made choice, that thou shouldest become his people as a treasure, above all the peoples that are on the face of the ground: ⁷ not because ye were more in number than any of the peoples, did Yahweh become attached to you, and make choice of you,––for, ye, were fewer than any of the peoples;

¹³ and put away the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thy house, and bewail her father and her mother, for the space of a month,––and, after that, mayest thou go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.

²⁷ And Gideon made thereof an Ephod, and set it up in his own city, in Ophrah, and all Israel went unchastely astray after it there,––so it became, to Gideon and to his house, a snare.

²⁷ Then went they out into the fields, and gathered the fruit of their vineyards and trode [the grapes], and held a vintage festival,––and entered the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and poured contempt on Abimelech.

¹⁶ And they put away the gods of the stranger out of their midst, and served Yahweh,––and his soul was impatient of the misery of Israel.

⁵ Now, the man Micah, had a house of gods,––and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and installed one of his sons, who became his priest.

¹⁷ Then went up the five men who had been to spy out the land, they came in thither, they took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image,––now, the priest, was standing at the entrance of the gate, with the six hundred men who were begirt with weapons of war. ¹⁸ But, when, these, had entered the house of Micah, and taken the graven image and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said unto them, What are ye doing? ¹⁹ And they said unto him––Hold thy peace, lay thy hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and become to us a father and a priest,––is it better that thou be priest to the house of one man, or that thou be priest to a tribe and to a family in Israel? ²⁰ Then was the heart of the priest glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image,––and came into the midst of the people. ²¹ So they turned, and went their way,––and put the little ones, and the cattle, and the goods, before them. ²² They, had gone a good way from the house of Micah, when, the men that were in the houses near to the house of Micah, were called out and overtook the sons of Dan. ²³ And they called unto the sons of Dan, who turned their faces,––and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou hast called out thy neighbours? ²⁴ And he said––My gods which I had made, ye have taken away, and the priest, and have departed, and what have I more? How then is it that ye can say unto me, What aileth thee?

¹⁸ But, as for Samuel, he was ministering before Yahweh,––a boy girded with an ephod of linen.

³ and, Ahijah, son of Ahitub, brother of Ichabod, son of Phinehas, son of Eli, was priest of Yahweh in Shiloh, wearing an ephod,––and, the people, knew not that Jonathan had departed.

²⁵ Then said Saul––Thus, shall ye say unto David––The king hath no delight in purchase–price, but rather in a hundred foreskins of Philistines, by avenging himself on the enemies of the king. But, Saul, thought to let David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

⁹ And the priest said: The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou didst smite in the vale of Elah, lo! that, is wrapped up in a cloth, behind the ephod, if, that, thou wilt take to thee, take it, for there is no other, save that, here. And David said––There is none, like it, give it me.

¹⁸ Then said the king to Doeg, Turn, thou, and fall upon the priests. So Doeg the Edomite turned, and, himself, fell upon the priests, and put to death, that day, four score and five men bearing an ephod of linen;

⁶ Now it came to pass, when Abiathar, son of Ahimelech, fled unto David to Keilah, that he came down with, an ephod, in his hand.

⁹ And David ascertained that, against him, Saul was contriving mischief,––so he said unto Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.

⁷ Then said David to Abiathar the priest, son of Ahimelech, Do bring near me, I pray thee, the ephod. So Abiathar brought near the ephod, unto David.

¹⁴ And, David, was dancing with all boldness before Yahweh,––David, being girt with an ephod of linen.

¹⁹ And he apportioned to all the people, to all the multitude of Israel, both to men and to women––to every one, a loaf of bread, and a sweet drink, and a raisin–cake,––and all the people went their way, every one unto his own house;

¹⁶ So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying––What portion have, we, in, David. Or inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your homes O Israel! Now, see to thine own house, O David! And Israel departed to their homes.

²³ Then was Yahweh gracious unto them, and had compassion upon them, and turned unto them, for the sake of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,––and was not willing to destroy them, nor to cast them off from his presence, as yet.

²⁴ Moreover also, them who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the household gods, and the manufactured gods, and the abominations which were to be seen in the land of Judah, and in Jerusalem, did Josiah consume,––that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of Yahweh.

² So he went forth to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear me, O Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin,––Yahweh, is with you, so long as ye are with him, and, if ye seek him, he will be found of you, but, if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

¹⁸ Yea, although they made them a molten calf, and said, This, is thy God, that brought thee up out of Egypt,––and wrought great insults, ¹⁹ yet, thou, in thine abounding compassions, didst not forsake them in the desert,––the pillar of cloud, departed not from over them by day, to lead them in the way, nor the pillar of fire by night, to light up for them the way wherein they should go.

³¹ Yet, in thine abounding compassions, thou didst not make of them an end, neither didst thou forsake them,––for, a GOD gracious and full of compassion, thou art.

⁴³ Many times, did he rescue them,––But, they, rebelled by their counsel, and sank low in their iniquity. ⁴⁴ Then looked he on the distress which befell them,––when he heard their loud cry; ⁴⁵ Then remembered he, for them, his covenant, and was moved to pity, according to the abounding of his lovingkindnesses; ⁴⁶ And granted them compassion before all their captors.

² Lo! as the eyes of men–servants are unto the hand of their masters, as the eyes of a maid–servant, unto the hand of her mistress, so, are our eyes, unto Yahweh our God, until that he show us favour.

³ If, iniquities, thou shouldest mark, O Yah, O My Lord, who could stand? ⁴ But, with thee, is forgiveness, that thou mayest be revered.

² But it shall come to pass, in the afterpart of the days, That the mountain of the house of Yahweh, Shall be, set up, as the head of the mountains, And be exalted above the hills,––And all the nations, shall stream thereunto;

¹⁰ For, ten yokes of vineyard, shall yield, one bath,––And, the seed of a homer, shall yield an ephah.

⁷ In that day, shall the son of earth look to him that made him,––And, his eyes, unto the Holy One of Israel, be turned; ⁸ And he shall not look unto the altars, the work of his own hands,––Nor, to what his own fingers have made, shall his eye be turned, Whether Sacred Stems or Sun–pillars.

¹⁹ In that day, shall there be, An altar unto Yahweh, in the midst of the land of Egypt,––And a pillar near the boundary thereof, unto Yahweh; ²⁰ And it shall become a sign and a witness, unto Yahweh of hosts, in the land of Egypt,––For they will make outcry unto Yahweh, because of oppressors, That he would send them a saviour––and a great one, Then will he deliver them.

¹² And it shall come to pass, in that day, That Yahweh will beat off his fruit from the stream of the River[=Euphrates], unto the torrent–valley of Egypt,––And, ye, shall be picked up, one by one, O sons of Israel. ¹³ And it shall come to pass, in that day, That there shall be a blowing with a great horn, Then shall come in, Such as have wandered in the land of Assyria, And such as have been outcasts in the land of Egypt,––And they shall bow themselves down unto Yahweh, In the holy mountain, In Jerusalem.

²² Turn unto me––and be ye saved, all ye ends of the earth,––For, I, am GOD, and there is none else.

³ Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hearken, That your soul, may live,––That I may solemnise for you a covenant age–abiding, The Lovingkindness to David, well–assured. ⁴ Lo! As a witness to the peoples, have I given him,––As a leader and commander, to the peoples:

¹ He hath said, If a man send away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, will he return unto her, again? would not that land be, utterly defiled? And, thou, hast been unchaste with many neighbours, and yet [thinkest] to return unto me! Declareth Yahweh. ² Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see––where thou hast not been unchastely embraced! beside the ways, hast thou sat to them, like the Arabian in the desert,––and hast defiled the land, with thine unchastities, and with thy wickedness. ³ Therefore have been withholden the showers, And, the latter rain, hath not come,––Yet, the forehead of an unchaste woman, hast thou, Thou hast refused to be ashamed. ⁴ Hast thou not, from this time, cried unto me, My father! the friend of my youth, art, thou?

¹² Go, and proclaim these words, towards the North, and say––Return! thou apostate, Israel, Urgeth Yahweh, I will not lower my face against you,––for, full of lovingkindness, I am, Declareth Yahweh, I will not maintain [mine anger] unto times age–abiding. ¹³ Only, acknowledge thine iniquity, that, against Yahweh thy God, hast thou transgressed,––and hast gone hither and thither unto foreigners under every green tree, and, unto my voice, ye have not hearkened, Declareth Yahweh. ¹⁴ Return, ye apostate sons, Urgeth Yahweh, for, I, am become your husband,––therefore will I take you, one of a city, and two of a family, and will bring you to Zion;

²⁰ But indeed, [as] a wife goeth treacherously from her husband, so, have ye acted treacherously with me, O house of Israel, Declareth Yahweh.

²² Return, ye apostate sons, I will heal your apostasies! Behold us! we have come unto thee, For, thou, art Yahweh our God. ²³ Surely, to falsehood, pertain the hills, The noisy throng on the mountains,––Surely, in Yahweh our God, is the salvation of Israel!

⁴ And I will make them a terror, to all the kingdoms of the earth,––On account of Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, For what he did in Jerusalem. ⁵ For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? And who shall lament for thee? And who shall turn aside, to ask for thy welfare?

⁵ Lo! days are coming, Declareth Yahweh, when I will raise up to David, A righteous Bud, And he shall reign as, king, and prosper, And shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.

⁹ But they shall serve Yahweh their God,––and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.

²⁴ The fierceness of the anger of Yahweh will, not turn back, Until he hath executed, nor, Until he hath established, The purposes of his heart,––In the afterpart of the days, shall ye understand it.

⁶ For it is, a day the watchmen have proclaimed throughout the hill country of Ephraim,––Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion, unto Yahweh our God. ⁷ For, thus, saith Yahweh––Shout ye for Jacob, with gladness, Make shrill thy voice, as the head of the nations,––Publish ye, praise ye, and say, Save thou, O Yahweh, thy people, the remnant of Israel. ⁸ Behold me! bringing them in out of the land of the North, And I will gather them out of the remote parts of the earth, Among them, the blind and the lame, The woman with child and she that giveth birth, together,––A great convocation, shall return hither: ⁹ With weeping, shall they come in, And, with supplications, will I lead them, I will bring them unto rivers of waters, By a smooth way, wherein they shall not stumble,––For I have become, to Israel, a father, And, as for Ephraim, my firstborn, is he!
¹⁰ Hear ye the word of Yahweh, O ye nations, And declare ye in the Coastlands, afar off,––And say––He that scattereth Israel, will gather him, And watch over him, as a shepherd his flock;

²⁰ Was Ephraim, a very precious son to me? Was he a most delightful, child? For, as often as I have spoken against him, I have, remembered, him, again! For this cause, have my affections been deeply moved for him, I must have, compassion, upon him, Declareth Yahweh.

⁹ So shall she become to me––A name of joy, A praise, and, An adorning, To all the nations of the earth,––Who will hear all the good which I, am doing them, And will dread and be deeply moved, over all the good, and over all the prosperity, which I am causing her.

¹⁷ For, Thus, saith Yahweh,––There shall not be wanting to David––A man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;

⁴ In those days, and at that time, Declareth Yahweh, Shall the sons of Israel come in, They, and the sons of Judah, together: Weeping as they travel, so shall they journey on, And, Yahweh their God, shall they seek; ⁵ To Zion, shall they ask the way, Hitherward, their faces, Come and let us join ourselves unto Yahweh, In a covenant age–abiding, which shall not be forgotten.

⁶³ To the end thou mayest remember, and turn pale, and there be to thee, no more, an opening of mouth, because of thy reproach,––In that I have accepted a propitiatory covering for thee, as to all that thou hast done, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.

³² And, as for that which is rising up on your spirit, it shall, not at all come to pass, In that ye, are saying, Let us be like the nations, Like the families of the lands, By ministering unto Wood and Stone!

²¹ For the king of Babylon, hath come to a stand, At the parting of the way, At the head of the two ways, To divine a divination: He hath shaken with arrows, He hath asked of the household gods, He hath inspected the liver.

²³ And I will raise up over them one shepherd, And he shall tend them, Even my servant David,––He, will tend them, And, he, will become to them a shepherd; ²⁴ And, I, Yahweh, will become to them a God, my servant David being a prince in their midst; ––I, Yahweh, have spoken;

²² And will make of them one, nation in the land, among the mountains of Israel, And, one king, shall they all, have, for king,––And they shall remain no longer, two nations, Nor shall they be divided into two kingdoms, any more. ²³ Neither shall they defile themselves any more, With their manufactured gods, or, With their detestable things, or, With any of their transgressions,––But I will save them out of all their dwelling–places, wherein they have sinned, And I will cleanse them, And they shall become my, people, And, I, will become their, God. ²⁴ And, my servant David, shall be king over them, And, one shepherd, shall they all, have,––And, in my regulations, shall they walk, And, my statutes, shall they observe, and do them. ²⁵ And they shall dwell upon the land, which I gave to my servant––to Jacob, Wherein your fathers, dwelt,––Yea they shall dwell thereupon, They, and their children, and their children’s children, Unto times age–abiding, And, David my servant, shall be prince unto them, Unto times age–abiding.

⁸ After many days, shalt thou muster thy forces, In the afterpart of the years, shalt thou enter, Into the land of the remnant brought back from the sword, Gathered from among many peoples, Upon the mountains of Israel, which have been waste continually,––But, the same, from among the peoples, hath been brought forth. And they shall dwell in security, all of them.

¹⁶ Therefore wilt thou come up, against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land,––In the afterpart of the days, shall it be, that I will suffer thee to enter upon my land, To the end the nations, may know me, when I hallow myself in thee before their eyes, O Gog!

¹¹ The ephah and the bath, of one fixed measure, shall be, to contain the tenth of a homer, the bath,––and, the tenth of a homer, the ephah, unto the homer, shall be the proportion thereof;

²⁸ but there is a God in the heavens, who revealeth secrets, and hath made known to King Nebuchadnezzar, what shall come to pass, in the afterpart of the days: Thy dream and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are, these:––

¹¹ even as far as the ruler of the host, shewed he his greatness,––and, because of him, was taken away the continual [ascending–sacrifice], and the place of the sanctuary, was cast down; ¹² and, a host, was set over the continual [ascending–sacrifice], by transgression,––and faithfulness, was cast down, to the ground, and so he acted with effect, and succeeded. ¹³ Then heard I a certain holy one, speaking,––and another holy one said to that certain holy one who was speaking––How long is the vision of the continual [ascending–sacrifice] as taken away, and the transgression which astoundeth, for both sanctuary and host to be given over to be trampled underfoot?

²⁷ And he will confirm a covenant to the many, for one week,––but, in the middle of the week, will cause sacrifice and present to cease, and, in his stead, [shall be] the horrid abomination that astoundeth, even till, a full end, and that a decreed one, shall be poured out on him that astoundeth.

¹⁴ So then I am come to let thee understand that which shall befall thy people in the afterpart of the days,––for yet is the vision for [those] days.

³¹ And, arms, from him, will arise,––and will profane the sanctuary, the fortress, and will set aside the continual [ascending–sacrifice], and place the horrid abomination that astoundeth.

¹¹ and, from the time of the taking away of the continual [ascending–sacrifice], and the placing of the horrid abomination that astoundeth, [shall be] one thousand two hundred and ninety days.

² The beginning of the word of Yahweh with Hosea, was,––that Yahweh said unto Hosea, Go take thee a woman of unchastity, and the children of unchastity, for, unchastely indeed, hath the land been going away from following Yahweh. ³ So he went and took Gomer, daughter of Diblaim,––and she conceived and bare him a son.

¹¹ And I will cause to cease all her mirth, her pilgrim–festival, her new moon and her sabbath,––and her every appointed meeting;

¹¹ Unchastity, and wine, and new wine, take away the heart.

⁶ With their flocks and with their herds, will they go to seek Yahweh, but shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.

¹⁵ I will depart, will return unto my place! till what time they acknowledge their guilt, and seek my face,––In their trouble, will they make for me diligent search.

⁵ In the day of our king, the rulers, have made themselves ill, with the heat of wine,––he hath extended his hand with scoffers.

¹ Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation, like the peoples, for thou hast gone away unchastely from beside thy God,––thou hast loved a present, upon all the threshing–floors of corn! ² Threshing–floor and wine–vat, will not feed them, and, new wine, will deny them.

¹ A luxuriant vine, is Israel, fruit, beseemeth him,––According to the abundance of his fruit, hath he brought abundance to the altars, according to the goodliness of his land, hath he made goodly statues. ² Hypocritical is their heart, Now, shall they be held guilty,––He, will break down their altars, he will destroy their statutes. ³ For, now, will they say, We have no king,––for we revere not Yahweh, and what could, a king, do for us?

⁸ How can I give thee up, Ephraim? abandon thee Israel? How can I make thee as Admah? set thee as Zeboim? Mine own heart, turneth against me, at once, are kindled my compassions.

¹¹ I might give thee a king in mine anger, and take him away in my wrath.

⁸ And, on pledged garments, they recline, beside every altar,––and, exacted wine, do they drink, in the house of their God.

⁶ Who are quaffing bowls of wine, and, with the best of oils, anointing themselves,––and are not afflicted for the injury of Joseph:––

¹¹ In that day, will I raise up the pavilion of David, that is lying prostrate,––and wall up the breaches of them, and, his ruins, will I raise up, and will build it, as in the days of age–past times:

¹ But it shall come to pass, in the afterpart of the days, that the mountain of the house of Yahweh shall be, set up, as the head of the mountains, and, exalted, shall it be, above the hills,––and peoples, shall stream thereunto;

¹¹ And will cut off the cities of thy land,––and will pull down all thy fortresses; ¹² And will cut off incantations, out of thy hand,––and, users of hidden arts, shalt thou not have; ¹³ And I will cut off thine images and thy pillars out of thy midst,––and thou shalt not bow thyself down, any more, to the work of thine own hands; ¹⁴ And I will uproot thy Sacred Stems out of thy midst,––and will destroy thy cities:

⁷ But, I, for Yahweh, will watch, I will wait for the God of my salvation,––My God, will hear me.

¹⁸ Who is a GOD like unto thee, taking away the iniquity––and passing over the transgression––of the remnant of his inheritance? He hath not held fast, perpetually, his anger, for, one who delighteth in lovingkindness, is he! ¹⁹ He will again have compassion upon us, he will subdue our iniquities,––Thou wilt cast––into the depths of the sea––all their sins. ²⁰ Thou wilt grant––the faithfulness to Jacob, the lovingkindness to Abraham,––which thou didst swear to our fathers, from the days of ancient time.

¹⁶ Wherefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, I have returned to Jerusalem, with compassions,, My house, shall be built therein, declareth Yahweh of hosts, and, a line, shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem.

² And it shall come to pass, in that day, declareth Yahweh of hosts, That I will cut off the names of idols out of the land, and they shall not be remembered any more,––Moreover also, even the prophets and the spirit of impurity, will I cause to pass away out of the land.

¹ And, Jesus coming forth, from the temple, was taking his departure, when his disciples came forward to point out to him the buildings of the temple. ² But, he, answering, said unto them––Are ye not beholding all these things? Verily, I say unto you––in no wise, shall there be left here, stone upon stone, which shall not be thrown down.

⁵⁰ But, Jesus, said unto him––Friend! wherefore art thou here? Then, coming forward, they thrust their hands upon Jesus, and secured him.

⁵⁴ He hath laid hold of Israel his servant, to be mindful of mercies: ⁵⁵ According as he spake unto our fathers,––To Abraham, and to his seed,––Unto times age–abiding.

²⁴ And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be carried away captive into all the nations, and, Jerusalem, shall be trodden down by the nations, until the seasons of the nations shall be fulfilled [and shall be].

¹⁵ They, therefore, cried aloud––Away! away! Crucify him! Pilate saith unto them––Your king, shall I crucify? The High–priests answered––We have no king but Caesar!

¹³ And they set up false witnesses, who said––This man, ceaseth not speaking things against this holy place and the law; ¹⁴ For we have heard him saying––This Jesus the Nazarene, will overthrow this place, and will change the customs which, Moses, delivered unto us.

¹⁶ After these things, will I return, and will rebuild the tent of David that hath fallen, and, the ruins thereof, will I rebuild, and will set it up again: ¹⁷ That the residues of men may seek out the Lord, and all the nations upon whom my name hath been called, saith the Lord that doeth these things, ¹⁸ Known from age–past times.

⁴ Or, the riches of his kindness, and forbearance, and long–suffering, dost thou despise,––not knowing that, the kindness of God, unto repentance, is leading thee?

²⁵ For I wish not, ye should be ignorant, brethren, of this sacred secret, lest within yourselves ye be presumptuous, that, a hardening in part, hath befallen Israel, until, the full measure of the nations, shall come in;

⁷ Neither become ye, idolaters, as some of them,––as it is written––The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to be making sport;

²¹ Ye cannot be drinking––a cup of the Lord, and a cup of demons; ye cannot be partaking of, a table of the Lord, and a table of demons.

²⁶ For, if, by choice, we be sinning, after the receiving of the full–knowledge of the truth, no longer, for sins, is there left over, a sacrifice,

³ For, sufficient, is the bygone time––to have wrought out, the will of the nations, having gone on in wanton ways, covetings, wine–drinkings, revellings, drinking–bouts, and impious idolatries:––