1. When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.
2. As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baals, and burned incense to graven images.
3. And I it was that taught Ephraim to walk, He took them upon his arms, but they knew not that I healed them.
4. I drew them with bands of a man, with cords of love; and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I gently caused them to eat.
5. He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king; for they refused to return [to me];
6. and the sword shall turn about in his cities, and shall consume his bars, and devour [them], because of their own counsels.
7. Yea, my people are bent upon backsliding from me: though they call them to the Most High, none at all exalteth [him].
8. How shall I give thee over, Ephraim? [how] shall I deliver thee up, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? [how] shall I set thee as Zeboim? My heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.
9. I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God, and not man, the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not come in anger.
10. They shall walk after Jehovah; he shall roar like a lion; when he shall roar, then the children shall hasten from the west:
11. they shall hasten as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will cause them to dwell in their houses, saith Jehovah.
1. Ephraim feedeth on wind, and pursueth after the east wind: all day long he multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.
2. Jehovah hath also a controversy with Judah, and he will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.
3. He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his strength he wrestled with God.
4. Yea, he wrestled with the Angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us,
5. even Jehovah, the God of hosts, Jehovah is his memorial.
6. And thou, return unto thy God: keep loving-kindness and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
7. [He is] a merchant, balances of deceit are in his hand; he loveth to oppress.
8. And Ephraim saith, Nevertheless I am become rich, I have found me out substance; in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.
9. But I [that am] Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt will again make thee to dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.
10. And I have spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by means of the prophets have I used similitudes.
11. If Gilead is iniquity, surely they are but vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
12. And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].
13. And by a prophet Jehovah brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
14. Ephraim provoked [him] to anger most bitterly; and his Lord shall leave his blood upon him, and recompense unto him his reproach.
17. But how precious are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
18. [If] I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee.
19. Oh that thou wouldest slay the wicked, O God! And ye men of blood, depart from me.
20. For they speak of thee wickedly, they take [thy name] in vain, thine enemies.
21. Do not I hate them, O Jehovah, that hate thee? and do not I loathe them that rise up against thee?
22. I hate them with perfect hatred; I account them mine enemies.
23. Search me, O God, and know my heart; prove me, and know my thoughts;
24. And see if there be any grievous way in me; and lead me in the way everlasting.
22. An angry man exciteth contention; and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
1. Jude, bondman of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the called ones beloved in God [the] Father and preserved in Jesus Christ:
2. Mercy to you, and peace, and love be multiplied.
3. Beloved, using all diligence to write to you of our common salvation, I have been obliged to write to you exhorting [you] to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.
4. For certain men have got in unnoticed, they who of old were marked out beforehand to this sentence, ungodly [persons], turning the grace of our God into dissoluteness, and denying our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ.
5. But I would put you in remembrance, you who once knew all things, that the Lord, having saved a people out of [the] land of Egypt, in the second place destroyed those who had not believed.
6. And angels who had not kept their own original state, but had abandoned their own dwelling, he keeps in eternal chains under gloomy darkness, to [the] judgment of [the] great day;
7. as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities around them, committing greedily fornication, in like manner with them, and going after other flesh, lie there as an example, undergoing the judgment of eternal fire.
8. Yet in like manner these dreamers also defile [the] flesh, and despise lordship, and speak railingly against dignities.
9. But Michael the archangel, when disputing with the devil he reasoned about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a railing judgment against [him], but said, [The] Lord rebuke thee.
10. But these, whatever things they know not, they speak railingly against; but what even, as the irrational animals, they understand by mere nature, in these things they corrupt themselves.
11. Woe to them! because they have gone in the way of Cain, and given themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12. These are spots in your love-feasts, feasting together [with you] without fear, pasturing themselves; clouds without water, carried along by [the] winds; autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;
13. raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames; wandering stars, to whom has been reserved the gloom of darkness for eternity.
14. And Enoch, [the] seventh from Adam, prophesied also as to these, saying, Behold, [the] Lord has come amidst his holy myriads,
15. to execute judgment against all; and to convict all the ungodly of them of all their works of ungodliness, which they have wrought ungodlily, and of all the hard [things] which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16. These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts; and their mouth speaks swelling words, admiring persons for the sake of profit.
17. But *ye*, beloved, remember the words spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,
18. that they said to you, that at [the] end of the time there should be mockers, walking after their own lusts of ungodlinesses.
19. These are they who set [themselves] apart, natural [men], not having [the] Spirit.
20. But *ye*, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,
21. keep yourselves in the love of God, awaiting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22. And of some have compassion, making a difference,
23. but others save with fear, snatching [them] out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
24. But to him that is able to keep you without stumbling, and to set [you] with exultation blameless before his glory,
25. to the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, [be] glory, majesty, might, and authority, from before the whole age, and now, and to all the ages. Amen.