7 And My people are bent on backsliding from Me. Though they call him to the
Most High; no one at all would exalt Him. 8 How shall I give you up, Ephraim? Shall I deliver you, Israel? How shall I
make you like Admah? Shall I set you as Zeboim3? My heart has turned within Me;
My compassions are kindled together. (Deut 29:23) 9 I will not execute the heat of My anger; I will not return to destroy Ephraim.
For I am El, and not a man, the Holy One in your midst. And I will not enter
into the city. 10 They shall walk after YAHUVEH; He shall roar as a lion. When He roars, then
the sons from the west shall tremble. 11 They trembled like a bird from Egypt, and like a dove from the land of
Assyria. And I will make them live in their houses, says YAHUVEH. 12 Ephraim surrounds Me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; but
Judah still rules with El and is faithful with the Holy Ones.
*~Hosea Chapter 12 ~*
1 Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind1; all the day he
multiplies lies and ruin. And they cut a covenant with Assyria, and oil is
carried into Egypt2. 2 YAHUVEH also has a quarrel with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his
ways; He will repay him according to his deeds3. 3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he contended
with (Aleph/Tav) Elohim. 4 Yes, he contended with the Messenger (Malak) and overcame; he wept and pleaded
to Him. He found us at Bethel, and He spoke with us there, 5 even YAHUVEH, the Elohim of Hosts. YAHUVEH is His memorial4. 6 For this reason, you return to your Elohim; keep kindness and judgment, and
call on your Elohim always. 7 He is a merchant; the scales of deceit are in his hand; he loves to oppress5. 8 And Ephraim said, I am rich; I have found much wealth for myself. In all my
labors they shall find in me no iniquity that is sin6. (Rev 3:16-19) 9 And I am YAHUVEH, your Elohim from the land of Egypt; yet I will make you live
in tents, as in the days of meeting. 10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the
hand of the prophets use parables. 11 Is Gilead evil? Surely they have been vanity. They sacrificed bulls in Gilgal;
yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field. 12 And Jacob fled into the field of Syria, and Israel served for a wife; yea, he
shepherded for a wife.
Obadiah 1:1-21
1 The vision of Obadiah: So says Adonai YAHUVEH concerning Edom1: We have heard
a message from YAHUVEH, and a messenger is sent among the nations; rise up, and
let us rise up against her for battle. 2 Behold, I have given you to be small among the nations; you are greatly
despised. 3 The pride2 of your heart has deceived you, dwelling in the clefts of the
rock3; his dwelling is lofty, saying in his heart, Who shall bring me down to
the ground? 4 Though you rise high as the eagle, and though you set your nest between the
stars I will bring you down from there, declares YAHUVEH. 5 If thieves came to you, if destroyers by night, how you have been cut off!
Would they not have stolen until they had enough? If the grape-gatherers came to
you, would they not leave gleanings? 6 How Esau is searched out! His hidden things are sought out! 7 All the men of your covenant have dismissed you to the border. The men who
were at peace with you have deceived you and have prevailed over you. They are
setting your bread as a snare under you; there is no understanding in him. 8 Shall I not in that day even destroy the wise out of Edom and understanding
out of the mount of Esau? declares YAHUVEH. 9 And your mighty ones, O Teman, shall be afraid, so that each man from the
mountain of Esau may be cut off by slaughter. 10 Shame shall cover you from the violence4 against your brother Jacob, and you
shall be cut off forever. 11 On the day of your standing on the other side, on the day that the strangers
took his force captive, and foreigners entered his gates, and cast lots for
Jerusalem, even you were like one of them. 12 But you should not have looked on the day of your brother, on the day of his
alienation; nor should you have rejoiced over the sons of Judah in the day of
their destruction; nor should you have enlarged your mouth in the day of
distress. 13 You should not have entered into My people's gate on the day of his calamity;
also you should not have looked on his evil on the day of his calamity, nor
should you have sent out against his force in the day of his calamity. 14 Nor should you have stood on the crossways to cut off those of him who
escaped, nor should you have shut up his survivors in the day of distress. 15 For the day of YAHUVEH is near on all the nations5: As you have done, it
shall be done to you; your reward shall return on your head! 16 For as you have drunk on My holy mountain, so all the nations shall
continually drink. Yea, they shall drink and shall swallow; and they will be as
if they had not been. 17 But the ones who escaped shall be on Mount Zion, and it shall be holy. And
the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions. 18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and
the house of Esau for straw. And they shall burn among them and consume them.
And no survivor shall be to the house of Esau, for YAHUVEH has spoken. 19 And those of Negev shall possess the mountain of Esau, and the low country of
the Philistines. And they shall possess Ephraim's fields, and Samaria's fields.
And Benjamin shall possess Gilead. 20 And the exiles of this force shall go to the sons of Israel who shall possess
the land of the Canaanites to Zarephath; even the exiles of Jerusalem who are in
Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negev. 21 And deliverers shall go up into the mountain of Zion to judge the mountain of
Esau, and the kingdom shall be to YAHUVEH.
Matthew 2:13-23
*~ Matthew Chapter 2 ~*
13 And they having departed, a Cherub of YAHUVEH appeared to Joseph by a dream,
saying, Rise up! Take the child and His mother with you, and flee into Egypt.
And be there until I shall tell you. For Herod is about to look for the child in
order to destroy Him. 14 And rising up, Joseph took along the child and His mother by night and
withdrew into Egypt. 15 And he was there until the end of Herod, that might be fulfilled that spoken
by YAHUVEH through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I have called My Son.” 16 Then seeing that he was mocked by the magi, Herod was greatly enraged, and
having sent, he killed all the boys in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from
two years old and under, according to the time which he exactly asked from the
magi. 17 Then was fulfilled that spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying 18 “A voice was heard in Ramah, lamenting and bitter wailing, and great
mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and would not be comforted, because
they were not.” 19 But when King Herod was dead, behold, a Cherub of YAHUVEH appeared to Joseph
by a dream in Egypt, 20 saying, rising up, take along the child and His mother and pass over into the
land of Israel; for those seeking the life of the child have died. 21 And rising up, Joseph took along the child and His mother and came into the
land of Israel. 22 But hearing that Archelaus reigned over Judea in place of his father Herod,
he feared to go there. And being warned by a dream, he departed into the land of
Galilee. 23 And coming, he lived in a city called Nazareth , so as to fulfill that spoken
by the prophet, He shall be called a Nazarene.