Daniel 12:8 - Hosea 2:23

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⁸I heard, but I did not understand. So I asked, “My lord, what will the outcome of all this be?”

⁹He replied, “Go your way, Daniel, because the words are rolled up and sealed^(A) until the time of the end.^(B) ¹⁰Many will be purified, made spotless and refined,^(C) but the wicked will continue to be wicked.^(D) None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.^(E)

¹¹“From the time that the daily sacrifice^(F) is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation^(G) is set up, there will be 1,290 days.^(H) ¹²Blessed is the one who waits^(I) for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.^(J)

¹³“As for you, go your way till the end.^(K) You will rest,^(L) and then at the end of the days you will rise to receive your allotted inheritance.^(M)”

1 The word of the Lord that came^(N) to Hosea son of Beeri during the reigns of Uzziah,^(O) Jotham,^(P) Ahaz^(Q) and Hezekiah,^(R) kings of Judah,^(S) and during the reign of Jeroboam^(T) son of Jehoash^[a] king of Israel:^(U)

Hosea’s Wife and Children

²When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, “Go, marry a promiscuous^(V) woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness^(W) to the Lord.” ³So he married Gomer^(X) daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

⁴Then the Lord said to Hosea, “Call him Jezreel,^(Y) because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel. ⁵In that day I will break Israel’s bow in the Valley of Jezreel.^(Z)”

⁶Gomer^(AA) conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. Then the Lord said to Hosea, “Call her Lo-Ruhamah (which means “not loved”),^(AB) for I will no longer show love to Israel,^(AC) that I should at all forgive them. ⁷Yet I will show love to Judah; and I will save them—not by bow,^(AD) sword or battle, or by horses and horsemen, but I, the Lord their God,^(AE) will save them.”

⁸After she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah,^(AF) Gomer had another son. ⁹Then the Lord said, “Call him Lo-Ammi (which means “not my people”), for you are not my people, and I am not your God.^[b]^(AG)

¹⁰“Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted.^(AH) In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘children of the living God.’^(AI) ¹¹The people of Judah and the people of Israel will come together;^(AJ) they will appoint one leader^(AK) and will come up out of the land,^(AL) for great will be the day of Jezreel.^[c]^(AM)

2 ^[d]“Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’^(AN)

Israel Punished and Restored

²“Rebuke your mother,^(AO) rebuke her,
    for she is not my wife,
    and I am not her husband.
Let her remove the adulterous^(AP) look from her face
    and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.
³Otherwise I will strip^(AQ) her naked
    and make her as bare as on the day she was born;^(AR)
I will make her like a desert,^(AS)
    turn her into a parched land,
    and slay her with thirst.
⁴I will not show my love to her children,^(AT)
    because they are the children of adultery.^(AU)
⁵Their mother has been unfaithful
    and has conceived them in disgrace.
She said, ‘I will go after my lovers,^(AV)
    who give me my food and my water,
    my wool and my linen, my olive oil and my drink.’^(AW)
⁶Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes;
    I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.^(AX)
⁷She will chase after her lovers but not catch them;
    she will look for them but not find them.^(AY)
Then she will say,
    ‘I will go back to my husband^(AZ) as at first,^(BA)
    for then I was better off^(BB) than now.’
⁸She has not acknowledged^(BC) that I was the one
    who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil,^(BD)
who lavished on her the silver and gold^(BE)—
    which they used for Baal.^(BF)

⁹“Therefore I will take away my grain^(BG) when it ripens,
    and my new wine^(BH) when it is ready.
I will take back my wool and my linen,
    intended to cover her naked body.
¹⁰So now I will expose^(BI) her lewdness
    before the eyes of her lovers;^(BJ)
    no one will take her out of my hands.^(BK)
¹¹I will stop^(BL) all her celebrations:^(BM)
    her yearly festivals, her New Moons,
    her Sabbath days—all her appointed festivals.^(BN)
¹²I will ruin her vines^(BO) and her fig trees,^(BP)
    which she said were her pay from her lovers;^(BQ)
I will make them a thicket,^(BR)
    and wild animals will devour them.^(BS)
¹³I will punish her for the days
    she burned incense^(BT) to the Baals;^(BU)
she decked herself with rings and jewelry,^(BV)
    and went after her lovers,^(BW)
    but me she forgot,^(BX)”
declares the Lord.^(BY)

¹⁴“Therefore I am now going to allure her;
    I will lead her into the wilderness^(BZ)
    and speak tenderly to her.
¹⁵There I will give her back her vineyards,
    and will make the Valley of Achor^[e]^(CA) a door of hope.
There she will respond^[f]^(CB) as in the days of her youth,^(CC)
    as in the day she came up out of Egypt.^(CD)

¹⁶“In that day,” declares the Lord,
    “you will call me ‘my husband’;^(CE)
    you will no longer call me ‘my master.^[g]’
¹⁷I will remove the names of the Baals from her lips;^(CF)
    no longer will their names be invoked.^(CG)
¹⁸In that day I will make a covenant for them
    with the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky
    and the creatures that move along the ground.^(CH)
Bow and sword and battle
    I will abolish^(CI) from the land,
    so that all may lie down in safety.^(CJ)
¹⁹I will betroth^(CK) you to me forever;
    I will betroth you in^[h] righteousness and justice,^(CL)
    in^[i] love and compassion.^(CM)
²⁰I will betroth you in^[j] faithfulness,
    and you will acknowledge^(CN) the Lord.^(CO)

²¹“In that day I will respond,”
    declares the Lord—
“I will respond^(CP) to the skies,
    and they will respond to the earth;
²²and the earth will respond to the grain,
    the new wine and the olive oil,^(CQ)
    and they will respond to Jezreel.^[k]^(CR)
²³I will plant^(CS) her for myself in the land;
    I will show my love to the one I called ‘Not my loved one.^[l]^(CT)’
I will say to those called ‘Not my people,^[m]’ ‘You are my people’;^(CU)
    and they will say, ‘You are my God.^(CV)’”