Hos. 5

5:1 Hear this, you priests!

Pay attention, you Israelites!

Listen closely, O king!

For judgment is about to overtake you.

For you were like a trap to Mizpah,

like a net spread out to catch Tabor.

2Those who revolt are knee-deep in slaughter,

but I will discipline them all.

3I know Ephraim all too well;

the evil of Israel is not hidden from me.

For you have engaged in prostitution, O Ephraim;

Israel has defiled itself.

4Their wicked deeds do not allow them to return to their God;

for a spirit of idolatry is in them,

and they do not acknowledge the Lord.

5The arrogance of Israel testifies against it;

Israel and Ephraim will be overthrown because of their iniquity.

Even Judah will be brought down with them.

6Although they bring their flocks and herds

to seek the favor of the Lord,

they will not find him—

he has withdrawn himself from them!

7They have committed treason against the Lord

because they bore illegitimate children.

Soon the new moon festival will devour them and their fields.

8Blow the ram’s horn in Gibeah!

Sound the trumpet in Ramah!

Sound the alarm in Beth Aven;

tremble in fear, O Benjamin!

9Ephraim will be ruined in the day of judgment.

What I am declaring to the tribes of Israel will certainly take place!

10The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary markers.

I will pour out my rage on them like a torrential flood.

11Ephraim will be oppressed, crushed under judgment,

because he was determined to pursue worthless idols.

12I will be like a moth to Ephraim,

like wood rot to the house of Judah.

13When Ephraim saw his sickness

and Judah saw his wound,

then Ephraim turned to Assyria

and begged its great king for help.

But he will not be able to heal you.

He cannot cure your wound!

14I will be like a lion to Ephraim,

like a young lion to the house of Judah.

I myself will tear them to pieces;

then I will carry them off, and no one will be able to rescue them!

15Then I will return again to my lair

until they have suffered their punishment.

Then they will seek me;

in their distress they will earnestly seek me.

Ps. 70

70:1 For the music director, by David; written to get God’s attention.

O God, please be willing to rescue me.

O Lord, hurry and help me.

2May those who are trying to take my life

be embarrassed and ashamed.

May those who want to harm me

be turned back and ashamed.

3May those who say, “Aha! Aha!”

be driven back and disgraced.

4May all those who seek you be happy and rejoice in you.

May those who love to experience your deliverance say continually,

“May God be praised!”

5I am oppressed and needy.

O God, hurry to me.

You are my helper and my deliverer.

O Lord, do not delay.

Rom. 5:1–21

5:1 Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2through whom we have also obtained access into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of God’s glory. 3Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4and endurance, character, and character, hope. 5And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

6For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7(For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person perhaps someone might possibly dare to die.) 8But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from God’s wrath. 10For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life? 11Not only this, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.

12So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned— 13for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law. 14Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam (who is a type of the coming one) transgressed. 15But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. For if the many died through the transgression of the one man, how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many! 16And the gift is not like the one who sinned. For judgment, resulting from the one transgression, led to condemnation, but the gracious gift from the many failures led to justification. 17For if, by the transgression of the one man, death reigned through the one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ!

18Consequently, just as condemnation for all people came through one transgression, so too through the one righteous act came righteousness leading to life for all people. 19For just as through the disobedience of the one man many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of one man many will be constituted righteous. 20Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more, 21so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.