God’s Anger against Israel 1 UST { In the past,} when{ the leaders of} Ephraim spoke, many people became afraid. The leaders of Israel became arrogant. Then they caused the people to sin by worshiping Baal, and so they must die. BSB BSB: When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal, and he died.
2 UST Now they keep on sinning more and more; they use their silver to make metal idols for themselves. They cleverly design the statues, but all of them are only the work of human craftsmen. The people who worship these idols talk to them. They sacrifice human beings to them, and they kiss these calf- idols! BSB BSB: Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”
3 UST Because of these things, those people will{ quickly} disappear like clouds that form in the morning{ and then vanish}, like dew that the sun dries up early in the day, like chaff that the wind blows away from the threshing floor, like smoke that drifts out through a window. BSB BSB: Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
4 UST { Yahweh says to his people,}“Even so, I am Yahweh your God, the one who brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt. You should acknowledge no god except me, and no one else can save you. BSB BSB: Yet I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but Me, for there is no Savior besides Me.
5 UST I was the one who cared for your ancestors when they were in the very dry desert land. BSB BSB: I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.
6 UST When I fed them, they ate until they were full; when they ate until they were full, they became proud. That is why they stopped thinking about me. BSB BSB: When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.
7 UST So I will be{ as fierce} toward them as a lion; I will be like a leopard that lurks{ to ambush them} beside the road. BSB BSB: So like a lion I will pounce on them; like a leopard I will lurk by the path.
8 UST I will attack them{ as furiously} as a mother bear whose cubs someone has stolen;{ it will be as though} I will rip their chests open. Right then and there I will completely destroy them, like a lioness devouring her prey, like wild animals tearing their victims apart. BSB BSB: Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast tearing them apart.
Death and Resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:50–58)
9 UST You have caused me to destroy you, people of Israel, because you rebelled against me, your{ only} helper. BSB BSB: You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me—against your helper.
10 UST You have a king, but it looks like he is unable to save you in any of your cities. Your ancestors said{ to me},‘Give us a king and officials,’{ and I did so}. But those rulers cannot help you now. BSB BSB: Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?
11 UST I become angry{ when you request a king}, but I give you a king.{ Later,} I become angry{ again}, so I take him away. BSB BSB: So in My anger I gave you a king, and in My wrath I took him away.
12 UST I have kept a record of all of the evil things that you people of Ephraim have done; yes, I have stored up{ an account of} all of your sins. BSB BSB: The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored up.
13 UST You people of Ephraim will suffer like a woman does when she gives birth, but you are like a foolish baby who refuses to come out when it is time to be born. BSB BSB: Labor pains come upon him, but he is an unwise son. When the time arrives, he fails to present himself at the opening of the womb.
14 UST I would have rescued you from going to the grave; yes, I wanted to save you from dying. But now, you must suffer as with a plague and die! The enemy must destroy you and send you to your graves! I cannot decide differently about this. BSB BSB: I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.
Judgment on Samaria 15 UST Even though the people of Ephraim have prospered more than the other tribes,{ I,} Yahweh, will send{ enemies who will come} from the east{ like} a scorching wind out of the desert. They will destroy all of Ephraim’ s sources of wealth, and they are the ones who will carry away everything valuable that the people of Ephraim own. BSB BSB: Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.
16 UST The people of Samaria are guilty and so I must punish them because they have rebelled against me, the God whom they promised to worship. Their enemies will kill them with swords; they will smash their little children on the ground, and they will cut open their pregnant women.” BSB BSB: Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.