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何西阿書 10

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1 以色列是茂盛的葡萄樹,結果繁多。果子越多,就越增添祭壇土越肥美,就越造美麗的柱像。

2 他們懷二意,現今要定為有罪。耶和華必拆毀他們的祭壇,毀壞他們的柱像。

3 他們必我們沒有王,因為我們不敬畏耶和華。王能為我們做甚麼呢?

4 他們為立約說謊言,起假誓;因此,災罰如苦菜滋生在田間的犁溝中。

5 撒瑪利亞的居民必因伯亞文的牛犢驚恐;崇拜牛犢的民和喜愛牛犢的祭司都必因榮耀離開他,為他悲哀。

6 牛犢帶到亞述當作禮物,獻給耶雷布王。以法蓮必蒙羞;以色列必因自己的計謀慚愧。

7 至於撒瑪利亞,他的王必滅沒,如面的沫子一樣。

8 伯亞文的邱─就是以色列的地方必被毀滅;荊棘和蒺藜必長在他們的祭壇上。他們必對大:遮蓋我們!對小:倒在我們身上!

9 以色列啊,你從基比亞的日子以來時常犯罪。你們的先人曾站在那裡,現今住基比亞的人以為攻擊罪孽之輩的戰事臨不到自己。

10 我必隨意懲罰他們。他們為兩樣的罪所纏;列邦的民必聚集攻擊他們。

11 以法蓮是馴良的母牛犢,喜踹穀,我卻將軛加在他肥美的頸項上,我要使以法蓮拉套(或作:被)。猶大必耕田;雅各地。

12 你們要為自己栽種公,就能收割慈愛。現今正是尋求耶和華的時候;你們要開墾荒地,等他臨到,使公如雨降在你們身上。

13 你們耕種的是奸惡,收割的是罪孽,的是謊話的果子。因你倚靠自己的行為,仰賴勇士眾多,

14 所以在這民中必有鬨嚷之聲,你一切的保障必被拆毀,就如沙勒幔在爭戰的日子拆毀伯亞比勒,將其中的母子一同摔死。

15 因他們的大惡,伯特利必使你們遭遇如此。到了黎明,以色列的王必全然滅絕。

   

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Scriptural Confirmations #75

  
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75. 4.

In that day I will visit, and make an end of the kingdom of Israel (Hosea 1:4-5).

The days of visitation will come, the days of retribution will come, He will visit their sins (Hosea 9:7, 9).

They shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us (Hosea 10:8).

They shall be laid waste as in the day of battle (Hosea 10:14).

The controversy of Jehovah with Judah, to visit upon Jacob, according to his ways, according to his doings will He recompense him (Hosea 12:3).

The day of Jehovah is great and very terrible, who then shall sustain it (Joel 2:11; 3:4).

A day of battle and a day of tempest (Amos 1:14).

Then the powerful one shall not deliver his soul, and the strong of heart among the heroes shall flee away naked in that day (Amos 2:14, 16).

He will visit upon them all their iniquities, in that day (Amos 3:2, 14).

If they dig into hell, if they ascend to the heavens or in the depth of the sea, etc., thence will I draw them out (Amos 9:2-6).

Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah; to what end is the day of Jehovah for you? it is a day of darkness and not of light. Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness and not light? and thick darkness and no brightness in it? (Amos 5:18, 20.)

The end is come upon my people Israel. Wherefore the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day: there shall be many a dead body (Amos 8:2-3).

It is called the day of destruction, the day of straitness (Obadiah 12-14, 18, 18).

The day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations; as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy retribution shall return upon thy head. But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness (Obadiah 14, 15, 17, 17).

  
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