Daily Reading

1 The word of Jehovah which came to Hosea the son of Beeri in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash the king of Israel.

2 At the beginning of Jehovah’s speaking to Hosea, Jehovah said to Hosea, Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotries / And children of harlotries, / For the land is entirely given over to harlotry, / And thus departs from Jehovah.

3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim. And she conceived and bore him a son.

4 And Jehovah said to him, Call his name Jezreel, / For yet a little while / And I will avenge the bloodshed of Jezreel / Upon the house of Jehu / And will bring an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.

5 And in that day / I will break the bow of Israel / In the valley of Jezreel.

6 And she conceived again and bore a daughter. And He said to him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah, / For I will no longer have compassion / On the house of Israel, / That I should forgive them at all.

7 But on the house of Judah I will have compassion and will save them by Jehovah their God, and I will not save them by bow or by sword or by battle, by horses or by horsemen.

8 When she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and bore a son.

9 And He said, Call his name Lo-ammi, / For you are not My people, / And I will not belong to you.

10 But the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, / Which cannot be measured or numbered; / And in the place where it will be said to them, You are not My people, / It will be said to them, You are the sons of the living God.

11 And the children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, / And they will appoint for themselves one head, and they will go up from the land, / For great will be the day of Jezreel.

1 Say to your brothers, Ammi, / And to your sisters, Ruhamah.

2 Contend with your mother; contend. / For she is not My wife, / And I am not her Husband. / And let her turn away her harlotries from her face, / And her adulteries from between her breasts,

3 Lest I strip her naked / And set her out as in the day she was born / And make her a wilderness / And make her a dry land / And slay her with thirst.

4 And on her children I will not have compassion, / For they are the children of harlotries.

5 For their mother has gone about as a harlot; / She who conceived them has acted shamefully; / For she has said, / I will go after my lovers, / Who give me my bread and my water, / My wool and my flax, / My oil and my drink.

6 Therefore I will now hedge up / Her way with thorns; / And I will build up a wall against her, / So that she will not find her paths.

7 And she will pursue her lovers / But will not overtake them; / And she will seek them but not find them; / And she will say, I will go / And return to my first Husband, / For it was better for me then than now.

8 For she did not know / That it was I who gave her / The grain and the new wine and the fresh oil, / And who multiplied to her silver / And gold, which they used for Baal.

9 Therefore I will take back / My grain in its time / And My new wine in its appointed season, / And I will snatch away My wool and My flax, / Which were to cover her nakedness.

10 And now I will uncover her lewdness / In the sight of her lovers, / And no one will deliver her from My hand.

11 And I will bring all her mirth to an end, / Her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, / And all her appointed assemblies.

12 And I will desolate her vine and her fig tree, / Of which she said, / These are my payments / That my lovers have given me; / And I will make them a forest, / And the beasts of the field will devour them.

13 And I will visit the days of the Baals upon her, / In which she burned incense to them / And adorned herself with her nose rings and her jewels / And went after her lovers / And forgot Me, / Declares Jehovah.

14 Therefore I am now luring her, / And I will bring her into the wilderness / And will speak to her heart.

15 And I will give her her vineyards from there / And the valley of Achor as a door of hope; / And she will respond there as in the days of her youth / And as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

16 And in that day, declares Jehovah, / You will call Me My Husband / And will no longer call Me Baali.

17 For I will take away the names of the Baals from her mouth, / And they will no longer be remembered by their name.

18 And I will make a covenant for them / In that day / With the beasts of the field / And with the birds of heaven / And the creeping things of the earth; / And bow and sword and battle / I will break from the land, / And I will cause them to lie down in safety.

19 And I will betroth you to Myself forever; / Indeed I will betroth you to Myself / In righteousness and justice / And in lovingkindness and compassions;

20 Indeed I will betroth you to Myself in faithfulness, / And you will know Jehovah.

21 And in that day / I will answer, declares Jehovah; / I will answer the heavens, / And they will answer the earth,

22 And the earth will answer the grain / And the new wine and the fresh oil, / And they will answer Jezreel.

23 And I will sow her for Myself in the land; / And I will have compassion on Lo-ruhamah, / And I will say to Lo-ammi, You are My people; / And they will say, My God.

1 Then Jehovah said to me, Go again, love a woman who is loved by her companion yet who is an adulteress, even as Jehovah has loved the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.

2 So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer of barley and a half-homer of barley.

3 And I said to her, You will abide for me for many days; you shall not go about as a harlot nor be another man’s; and I will be the same toward you.

4 For the children of Israel will abide for many days without king and without prince and without sacrifice and without pillar and without ephod and teraphim.

5 Afterward the children of Israel will return and seek Jehovah their God and David their King, and they will come with fear to Jehovah and to His goodness in the last days.

1 The revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave to Him to show to His slaves the things that must quickly take place; and He made it known by signs, sending it by His angel to His slave John,

2 Who testified the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ, even all that he saw.

3 Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy and keep the things written in it, for the time is near.

4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is coming, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne,

5 And from Jesus Christ, the faithful Witness, the Firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood

6 And made us a kingdom, priests to His God and Father, to Him be the glory and the might forever and ever. Amen.

7 Behold, He comes with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the land will mourn over Him. Yes, amen.

8 I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, He who is and who was and who is coming, the Almighty.

9 I John, your brother and fellow partaker in the tribulation and kingdom and endurance in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

10 I was in spirit on the Lord’s Day and heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,

11 Saying, What you see write in a scroll and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamos and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.

12 And I turned to see the voice that spoke with me; and when I turned, I saw seven golden lampstands,

13 And in the midst of the lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment reaching to the feet, and girded about at the breasts with a golden girdle.

14 And His head and hair were as white as white wool, as snow; and His eyes were like a flame of fire;

15 And His feet were like shining bronze, as having been fired in a furnace; and His voice was like the sound of many waters.

16 And He had in His right hand seven stars; and out of His mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword; and His face shone as the sun shines in its power.

17 And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead; and He placed His right hand on me, saying, Do not fear; I am the First and the Last

18 And the living One; and I became dead, and behold, I am living forever and ever; and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

19 Write therefore the things which you have seen and the things which are and the things which are about to take place after these things.

20 The mystery of the seven stars which you saw upon My right hand and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the messengers of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.