91 Do not rejoice , O Israel , with exultation like the nations ! For you have played the harlot , forsaking e your God . You have loved harlots' earnings on every threshing floor . 2 Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them, And the new wine will fail them. 3 They will not remain in the Lord'S land , But Ephraim will return to Egypt , And in Assyria they will eat unclean food. 4 They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the Lord , Their sacrifices will not please Him. Their bread will be like mourners' bread ; All who eat of it will be defiled , For their bread will be for themselves alone; It will not enter the house of the Lord . 5 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 will go because of destruction ; Egypt will gather them up, Memphis will bury them. Weeds will take over their treasures of silver ; Thorns will be in their tents .
7 The days of punishment have come , The days of retribution have come ; Let Israel know this! The prophet is a fool , The inspired man is demented , Because of the grossness of your iniquity , And because your hostility is so great . 8 Ephraim was a watchman with my God , a prophet ; Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways , And there is only hostility in the house of his God . 9 They have gone deep in depravity As in the days of Gibeah ; He will remember their iniquity , He will punish their sins . 10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness ; I saw your forefathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season. But they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame , And they became as detestable as that which they loved .
11 As for Ephraim , their glory will fly away like a bird - No birth , no pregnancy and no conception ! 12 Though e they bring up their children , Yet I will bereave them until not a man is left. Yes , woe to them indeed when I depart from them! 13 Ephraim , as I have seen , Is planted in a pleasant meadow like Tyre ; But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter . 14 Give them, O Lord -what will You give ? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts . 15 All their evil is at Gilgal ; Indeed , I came to hate them there ! Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of My house ! I will love them no more ; All their princes are rebels . 16 Ephraim is stricken , their root is dried up, They will bear no fruit . Even though they bear children, I will slay the precious ones of their womb . 17 My God will cast them away Because they have not listened to Him; And they will be wanderers among the nations .
101 Israel is a luxuriant vine ; He produces fruit for himself. The more his fruit , The more altars he made ; The richer his land , The better he made the sacred pillars . 2 Their heart is faithless ; Now they must bear their guilt . The Lord will break down their altars And destroy their sacred pillars . 3 Surely now they will say , "We have no king , For we do not revere the Lord . As for the king , what can he do for us?" 4 They speak mere words , With worthless oaths they make covenants ; And judgment sprouts like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field . 5 The inhabitants of Samaria will fear For the calf of Beth-aven . Indeed , its people will mourn for it, And its idolatrous priests will cry out over it, Over its glory , since it has departed from it. 6 The thing itself will be carried to Assyria As tribute to King Jareb ; Ephraim will be seized with shame And Israel will be ashamed of its own counsel . 7 Samaria will be cut off with her king Like a stick on the surface of the water . 8 Also the high places of Aven , the sin of Israel , will be destroyed ; Thorn and thistle will grow on their altars ; Then they will say to the mountains , "Cover us!" And to the hills , "Fall on us!"
9 From the days of Gibeah you have sinned , O Israel ; There they stand ! Will not the battle against the sons of iniquity overtake them in Gibeah ? 10 When it is My desire , I will chastise them; And the peoples will be gathered against them When they are bound for their double guilt . 11 Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh , But I will come over her fair neck with a yoke; I will harness Ephraim , Judah will plow , Jacob will harrow for himself. 12 Sow with a view to righteousness , Reap in accordance with kindness ; Break up your fallow ground , For it is time to seek the Lord Until He comes to rain righteousness on you. 13 You have plowed wickedness , you have reaped injustice , You have eaten the fruit of lies . Because you have trusted in your way , in your numerous warriors , 14 Therefore a tumult will arise among your people , And all your fortresses will be destroyed , As Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle , When mothers were dashed in pieces with their children . 15 Thus it will be done to you at Bethel because e of your great wickedness . At dawn the king of Israel will be completely cut off .
111 When Israel was a youth I loved him, And out of Egypt I called My son . 2 The more they called them, The more they went from them; They kept sacrificing to the Baals And burning incense to idols . 3 Yet it is I who taught Ephraim to walk , I took them in My arms ; But they did not know that I healed them. 4 I led them with cords of a man , with bonds of love , And I became to them as one who lifts the yoke from their jaws ; And I bent down and fed them. 5 They will not return to the land of Egypt ; But Assyria -he will be their king Because they refused to return to Me. 6 The sword will whirl against their cities , And will demolish their gate bars And consume them because of their counsels . 7 So My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call them to the One on high , None at all exalts Him.
8 How can I give you up, O Ephraim ? How can I surrender you, O Israel ? How can I make you like Admah ? How can I treat you like Zeboiim ? My heart is turned over within Me, All My compassions are kindled . 9 I will not execute My fierce anger ; I will not destroy Ephraim again . For I am God and not man , the Holy One in your midst , And I will not come in wrath . 10 They will walk after the Lord , He will roar like a lion ; Indeed He will roar And His sons will come trembling from the west . 11 They will come trembling like birds from Egypt And like doves from the land of Assyria ; And I will settle them in their houses , declares the Lord . 12 Ephraim surrounds Me with lies And the house of Israel with deceit ; Judah is also unruly against God , Even against the Holy One who is faithful .
31 "To the angel of the church in Sardis write : He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars , says this : ' I know your deeds , that you have a name that you are alive , but you are dead . 2 'Wake up, and strengthen the things that remain , which were about to die ; for I have not found your deeds completed in the sight of My God . 3 'So remember what you have received and heard ; and keep it, and repent . Therefore if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief , and you will not know at what hour I will come to you. 4 'But you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments ; and they will walk with Me in white , for they are worthy . 5 ' He who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments ; and I will not erase his name from the book of life , and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels . 6 ' He who has an ear , let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches .'
7 "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write : He who is holy , who is true , who has the key of David , who opens and no one will shut , and who shuts and no one opens , says this : 8 ' I know your deeds . Behold , I have put before you an open door which no one can shut , because you have a little power , and have kept My word , and have not denied My name . 9 'Behold , I will cause those of the synagogue of Satan , who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie -I will make them come and bow down at your feet , and make them know that I have loved you. 10 'Because you have kept the word of My perseverance , I also will keep you from the hour of testing , that hour which is about to come upon the whole world , to test those who dwell on the earth . 11 ' I am coming quickly ; hold fast what you have , so that no one will take your crown . 12 ' He who overcomes , I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God , and he will not go out from it anymore ; and I will write on him the name of My God , and the name of the city of My God , the new Jerusalem , which comes down out of heaven from My God , and My new name . 13 ' He who has an ear , let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches .'
14 "To the angel of the church in Laodicea write : The Amen , the faithful and true Witness , the Beginning of the creation of God , says this : 15 ' I know your deeds , that you are neither cold nor hot ; I wish that you were cold or hot . 16 'So because you are lukewarm , and neither hot nor cold , I will spit you out of My mouth . 17 'Because you say , " I am rich , and have become wealthy , and have need of nothing ," and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked , 18 I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich , and white garments so that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed ; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see . 19 ' Those whom I love , I reprove and discipline ; therefore be zealous and repent . 20 'Behold , I stand at the door and knock ; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door , I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. 21 ' He who overcomes , I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne , as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne . 22 ' He who has an ear , let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches .' "
