Hosea 7:6

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire will devour him. It will consume that which is left in his tent.

They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.

Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck him before the people, and killed him, and reigned in his place.

Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, came to Samaria, struck Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, killed him, and reigned in his place.

Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him and attacked him in Samaria, in the fortress of the king’s house, with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites. He killed him, and reigned in his place.

Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, attacked him, killed him, and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.

For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

I will make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you don’t know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which will burn on you.”

The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob without pity. He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’

Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.

They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

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

whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?

Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:

I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.

How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.

Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.

The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel.

There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.

The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven’t returned to Yahweh their God, nor sought him, for all this.

They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn’t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.

There is one gone out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;

who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you will shake his yoke from off your neck.”

For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

Behold, today your eyes have seen how Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not stretch out my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh’s anointed.

Yahweh forbid that I should stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head, and the jar of water, and let’s go.”

Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, “Please notice how this man seeks mischief; for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn’t deny him.”

whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.

God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you.

those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

Yahweh, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.

Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you will be melted in the middle of it.

They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.

They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.

For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.

so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

Then he says, ‘I will return into my house from which I came out,’ and when he has come back, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order.

and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

‘The Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet?’

They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.