Hosea 13:12

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?

My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

and Yahweh has brought it, and done according as he spoke. Because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing has come on you.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”

Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn’t let the people go.

But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today.

For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn’t they let the people go, and they departed?

Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?

“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.

Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’

Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you will judge the peoples with equity, and govern the nations on earth.

Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.

Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;

For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. It is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars.

“In those days they will say no more, “ ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’

I signed the deed, sealed it, called witnesses, and weighed the money in the balances to him.

But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to me; for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.

“Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity will not be your ruin.

But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.

“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.

he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”

But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?”

I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

if I sharpen my glittering sword, my hand grasps it in judgment; I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will repay those who hate me.

Benjamin went out against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men. All these drew the sword.

and said to them, “You must not bring in the captives here, for you intend that which will bring on us a trespass against Yahweh, to add to our sins and to our guilt; for our guilt is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.”

“But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,

‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.

“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?

Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge.

Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”

By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, of those who are far away on the sea.

Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth;

You are righteous, Yahweh. Your judgments are upright.

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

“What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?

“Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father’s sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;

Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds,

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double.