Hosea 14:3 我们不向亚述求救，不骑埃及的马，也不再对我们手所造的说： ‘你是我们的　神。’ 因为孤儿在你耶和华那里得蒙怜悯。”

14:3 MSG

逐节对照

新标点和合本 - 我们不向亚述求救，不骑埃及的马，也不再对我们手所造的说： ‘你是我们的　神。’ 因为孤儿在你耶和华那里得蒙怜悯。”
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 亚述不能救我们，我们不再骑马，也不再对我们手所造的偶像说： ‘你是我们的上帝’；孤儿在你那里得蒙怜悯。”
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 亚述不能救我们，我们不再骑马，也不再对我们手所造的偶像说： ‘你是我们的　神’；孤儿在你那里得蒙怜悯。”
当代译本 - 亚述不能救我们，我们不再依靠战马，也不再称自己所造的神像为我们的上帝。因为孤儿在你那里才能得到怜悯。”
圣经新译本 - 亚述不能救我们，我们必不再骑马；我们亲手所做的，我们必不再称为‘我们的　神’；因为在你那里，孤儿才得着怜悯。”
现代标点和合本 - 我们不向亚述求救，不骑埃及的马，也不再对我们手所造的说 ‘你是我们的神’，因为孤儿在你耶和华那里得蒙怜悯。”
和合本（拼音版） - 我们不向亚述求救，不骑埃及的马，也不再对我们手所造的说： ‘你是我们的神。’ 因为孤儿在你耶和华那里得蒙怜悯。”
New International Version - Assyria cannot save us; we will not mount warhorses. We will never again say ‘Our gods’ to what our own hands have made, for in you the fatherless find compassion.”
New International Reader's Version - Assyria can’t save us. We won’t trust in our war horses. Our own hands have made statues of gods. But we will never call them our gods again. We are like children whose fathers have died. But you show us your tender love.”
English Standard Version - Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses; and we will say no more, ‘Our God,’ to the work of our hands. In you the orphan finds mercy.”
New Living Translation - Assyria cannot save us, nor can our warhorses. Never again will we say to the idols we have made, ‘You are our gods.’ No, in you alone do the orphans find mercy.”
Christian Standard Bible - Assyria will not save us, we will not ride on horses, and we will no longer proclaim, ‘Our gods! ’ to the work of our hands. For the fatherless receives compassion in you.”
New American Standard Bible - Assyria will not save us, We will not ride on horses; Nor will we say again, ‘Our god’ To the work of our hands; For in You the orphan finds mercy.”
New King James Version - Assyria shall not save us, We will not ride on horses, Nor will we say anymore to the work of our hands, ‘You are our gods.’ For in You the fatherless finds mercy.”
Amplified Bible - Assyria will not save us; We will not ride on horses [relying on military might], Nor will we say again to [the idols who are] the work of our hands, ‘You are our gods.’ For in You [O Lord] the orphan finds love and compassion and mercy.”
American Standard Version - Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods; for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
King James Version - Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
New English Translation - Assyria cannot save us; we will not ride warhorses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods’ to what our own hands have made. For only you will show compassion to Orphan Israel!”
World English Bible - Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”
新標點和合本 - 我們不向亞述求救，不騎埃及的馬，也不再對我們手所造的說：你是我們的神。因為孤兒在你－耶和華那裏得蒙憐憫。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 亞述不能救我們，我們不再騎馬，也不再對我們手所造的偶像說：『你是我們的上帝』；孤兒在你那裏得蒙憐憫。」
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 亞述不能救我們，我們不再騎馬，也不再對我們手所造的偶像說：『你是我們的　神』；孤兒在你那裏得蒙憐憫。」
當代譯本 - 亞述不能救我們，我們不再依靠戰馬，也不再稱自己所造的神像為我們的上帝。因為孤兒在你那裡才能得到憐憫。」
聖經新譯本 - 亞述不能救我們，我們必不再騎馬；我們親手所做的，我們必不再稱為‘我們的　神’；因為在你那裡，孤兒才得著憐憫。”
呂振中譯本 - 亞述不能拯救我們，駿馬我們必不再騎上；我們的手所造的我們必不再稱為「我們的上帝」，因為只有在你裏面孤兒得以找到憐憫。
現代標點和合本 - 我們不向亞述求救，不騎埃及的馬，也不再對我們手所造的說『你是我們的神』，因為孤兒在你耶和華那裡得蒙憐憫。」
文理和合譯本 - 我不恃亞述之救援、不復乘馬、不復謂我手所造者曰、爾為我神、孤兒必蒙矜憫於爾耶和華、
文理委辦譯本 - 我不求救於亞述、不恃驍騎、不稱所作之像為我上帝、無父之子、惟爾矜憫、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 我儕不復求救於亞述、不復欲乘伊及之馬、不再稱己手所造者為我之天主、我之天主或作我儕之神無父之子、惟主矜恤、
Nueva Versión Internacional - Asiria no podrá salvarnos; no montaremos caballos de guerra. Nunca más llamaremos “dios nuestro” a cosas hechas por nuestras manos, pues en ti el huérfano halla compasión».
현대인의 성경 - 우리는 앗시리아나 우리의 군사력을 의지하지 않을 것이며 다시는 우리가 우리 손으로 만든 것을 보고 ‘우리 신’ 이라고 부르지 않겠습니다. 이것은 고아가 주에게서만 불쌍히 여김을 받을 수 있기 때문입니다.”
Новый Русский Перевод - Возьмите с собой слова покаяния и вернитесь к Господу. Скажите Ему: «Прости все наши грехи и милостиво прими нас, чтобы мы могли принести Тебе жертву наших уст.
Восточный перевод - Вернитесь к Вечному, взяв с собой слова покаяния. Скажите Ему: «Прости все наши грехи и милостиво прими нас, и мы, как жертвенных быков, принесём Тебе хвалу наших уст.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Вернитесь к Вечному, взяв с собой слова покаяния. Скажите Ему: «Прости все наши грехи и милостиво прими нас, и мы, как жертвенных быков, принесём Тебе хвалу наших уст.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Вернитесь к Вечному, взяв с собой слова покаяния. Скажите Ему: «Прости все наши грехи и милостиво прими нас, и мы, как жертвенных быков, принесём Тебе хвалу наших уст.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Préparez vos paroles et revenez à l’Eternel, et dites-lui : ╵« Pardonne toute faute, et prends en bonne part ╵que nous t’offrions en retour, ╵en sacrifice, l’hommage de nos lèvres, ╵en guise de taureaux.
リビングバイブル - アッシリヤは私たちを救えません。私たちの戦力も救えません。もう二度と、自分たちの作った偶像を『私たちの神』と呼びません。主よ、みなしごは、あなたの中にしか、あわれみを見つけることができないのです。」
Nova Versão Internacional - A Assíria não nos pode salvar; não montaremos cavalos de guerra. Nunca mais diremos: ‘Nossos deuses àquilo que as nossas próprias mãos fizeram’, porque tu amas o órfão”.
Hoffnung für alle - Kommt zurück zum Herrn, sprecht mit ihm und sagt: »Vergib uns alle Schuld! Und nimm an, was wir dir bringen. Es ist das Beste, was wir geben können – kein Schlachtopfer, sondern unser Versprechen:
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - A-sy-ri không thể cứu chúng con, hay chúng con không cỡi ngựa chiến nữa. Không bao giờ chúng con còn gọi các tượng do mình tạo ra rằng: ‘Đây là thần của chúng tôi.’ Không, vì chỉ trong Chúa, người mồ côi mới được thương xót.”
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - อัสซีเรียไม่อาจช่วยเหล่าข้าพระองค์ได้ ข้าพระองค์ทั้งหลายจะไม่พึ่งม้าศึก จะไม่เรียกสิ่งที่มือของข้าพระองค์ทั้งหลายสร้างขึ้นนั้นว่า ‘บรรดาพระเจ้าของข้าพระองค์ทั้งหลาย’ อีกต่อไป เพราะลูกกำพร้าพ่อจะพบความเมตตาสงสารในพระองค์”
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - อัสซีเรียจะไม่ช่วยพวกเราให้รอดพ้น เราทั้งหลายจะไม่ขี่ม้าศึก และจะไม่พูดกับสิ่งที่เราทำขึ้นด้วยมือของพวกเราว่า ‘พระเจ้าของพวกเรา’ อีกต่อไป เพราะพระองค์มีเมตตาต่อเด็กกำพร้า”

交叉引用

Isaiah 36:8 - “‘Be reasonable. Face the facts: My master the king of Assyria will give you two thousand horses if you can put riders on them. You can’t do it, can you? So how do you think, depending on flimsy Egypt’s chariots and riders, you can stand up against even the lowest-ranking captain in my master’s army?
Psalms 20:7 - See those people polishing their chariots, and those others grooming their horses? But we’re making garlands for God our God. The chariots will rust, those horses pull up lame— and we’ll be on our feet, standing tall.
Isaiah 2:20 - On that Day men and women will take the sticks and stones They’ve decked out in gold and silver to look like gods and then worshiped, And they will dump them in any ditch or gully, Then run for rock caves and cliff hideouts To hide from the terror of God, from his dazzling presence, When he assumes his full stature on earth, towering and terrifying.
Exodus 22:22 - “Don’t mistreat widows or orphans. If you do and they cry out to me, you can be sure I’ll take them most seriously; I’ll show my anger and come raging among you with the sword, and your wives will end up widows and your children orphans.
Jeremiah 31:18 - “I’ve heard the contrition of Ephraim. Yes, I’ve heard it clearly, saying, ‘You trained me well. You broke me, a wild yearling horse, to the saddle. Now put me, trained and obedient, to use. You are my God. After those years of running loose, I repented. After you trained me to obedience, I was ashamed of my past, my wild, unruly past. Humiliated, I beat on my chest. Will I ever live this down?’
Jeremiah 31:20 - “Oh! Ephraim is my dear, dear son, my child in whom I take pleasure! Every time I mention his name, my heart bursts with longing for him! Everything in me cries out for him. Softly and tenderly I wait for him.” God’s Decree.
Jeremiah 31:21 - “Set up signposts to mark your trip home. Get a good map. Study the road conditions. The road out is the road back. Come back, dear virgin Israel, come back to your hometowns. How long will you flit here and there, indecisive? How long before you make up your fickle mind? God will create a new thing in this land: A transformed woman will embrace the transforming God!” * * *
Hosea 12:1 - Ephraim, obsessed with god-fantasies, chases ghosts and phantoms. He tells lies nonstop, soul-destroying lies. Both Ephraim and Judah made deals with Assyria and tried to get an inside track with Egypt. God is bringing charges against Israel. Jacob’s children are hauled into court to be punished. In the womb, that heel, Jacob, got the best of his brother. When he grew up, he tried to get the best of God. But God would not be bested. God bested him. Brought to his knees, Jacob wept and prayed. God found him at Bethel. That’s where he spoke with him. God is God-of-the-Angel-Armies, God-Revealed, God-Known. * * *
Proverbs 23:10 - Don’t stealthily move back the boundary lines or cheat orphans out of their property, For they have a powerful Advocate who will go to bat for them.
Micah 5:10 - “The day is coming” —God’s Decree— “When there will be no more war. None. I’ll slaughter your war horses and demolish your chariots. I’ll dismantle military posts and level your fortifications. I’ll abolish your religious black markets, your underworld traffic in black magic. I will smash your carved and cast gods and chop down your phallic posts. No more taking control of the world, worshiping what you do or make. I’ll root out your sacred sex-and-power centers and destroy the God-defiant. In raging anger, I’ll make a clean sweep of godless nations who haven’t listened.”
Psalms 146:3 - Don’t put your life in the hands of experts who know nothing of life, of salvation life. Mere humans don’t have what it takes; when they die, their projects die with them. Instead, get help from the God of Jacob, put your hope in God and know real blessing! God made sky and soil, sea and all the fish in it. He always does what he says— he defends the wronged, he feeds the hungry. God frees prisoners— he gives sight to the blind, he lifts up the fallen. God loves good people, protects strangers, takes the side of orphans and widows, but makes short work of the wicked.
2 Chronicles 16:7 - Just after that, Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said, “Because you went for help to the king of Aram and didn’t ask God for help, you’ve lost a victory over the army of the king of Aram. Didn’t the Ethiopians and Libyans come against you with superior forces, completely outclassing you with their chariots and cavalry? But you asked God for help and he gave you the victory. God is always on the alert, constantly on the lookout for people who are totally committed to him. You were foolish to go for human help when you could have had God’s help. Now you’re in trouble—one round of war after another.”
Hosea 7:11 - “Ephraim is bird-brained, mindless, clueless, First chirping after Egypt, then fluttering after Assyria. I’ll throw my net over them. I’ll clip their wings. I’ll teach them to mind me! Doom! They’ve run away from home. Now they’re really in trouble! They’ve defied me. And I’m supposed to help them while they feed me a line of lies? Instead of crying out to me in heartfelt prayer, they whoop it up in bed with their whores, Gash themselves bloody in their sex-and-religion orgies, but turn their backs on me. I’m the one who gave them good minds and healthy bodies, and how am I repaid? With evil scheming! They turn, but not to me— turn here, then there, like a weather vane. Their rulers will be cut down, murdered— just deserts for their mocking blasphemies. And the final sentence? Ridicule in the court of world opinion.”
Zechariah 13:2 - “On the Big Day”—this is God-of-the-Angel-Armies speaking—“I will wipe out the store-bought gods, erase their names from memory. People will forget they ever heard of them. And I’ll get rid of the prophets who polluted the air with their diseased words. If anyone dares persist in spreading diseased, polluting words, his very own parents will step in and say, ‘That’s it! You’re finished! Your lies about God put everyone in danger,’ and then they’ll stab him to death in the very act of prophesying lies about God—his own parents, mind you!
John 14:18 - “I will not leave you orphaned. I’m coming back. In just a little while the world will no longer see me, but you’re going to see me because I am alive and you’re about to come alive. At that moment you will know absolutely that I’m in my Father, and you’re in me, and I’m in you.
Hosea 5:13 - “When Ephraim saw he was sick and Judah saw his pus-filled sores, Ephraim went running to Assyria, went for help to the big king. But he can’t heal you. He can’t cure your oozing sores.
Isaiah 31:1 - Doom to those who go off to Egypt thinking that horses can help them, Impressed by military mathematics, awed by sheer numbers of chariots and riders— And to The Holy of Israel, not even a glance, not so much as a prayer to God. Still, he must be reckoned with, a most wise God who knows what he’s doing. He can call down catastrophe. He’s a God who does what he says. He intervenes in the work of those who do wrong, stands up against interfering evildoers. Egyptians are mortal, not God, and their horses are flesh, not Spirit. When God gives the signal, helpers and helped alike will fall in a heap and share the same dirt grave. * * *
Psalms 10:14 - But you know all about it— the contempt, the abuse. I dare to believe that the luckless will get lucky someday in you. You won’t let them down: orphans won’t be orphans forever.
Psalms 68:5 - Father of orphans, champion of widows, is God in his holy house. God makes homes for the homeless, leads prisoners to freedom, but leaves rebels to rot in hell.

逐节对照

交叉引用

新标点和合本 - 我们不向亚述求救，不骑埃及的马，也不再对我们手所造的说： ‘你是我们的　神。’ 因为孤儿在你耶和华那里得蒙怜悯。”
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 亚述不能救我们，我们不再骑马，也不再对我们手所造的偶像说： ‘你是我们的上帝’；孤儿在你那里得蒙怜悯。”
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 亚述不能救我们，我们不再骑马，也不再对我们手所造的偶像说： ‘你是我们的　神’；孤儿在你那里得蒙怜悯。”
当代译本 - 亚述不能救我们，我们不再依靠战马，也不再称自己所造的神像为我们的上帝。因为孤儿在你那里才能得到怜悯。”
圣经新译本 - 亚述不能救我们，我们必不再骑马；我们亲手所做的，我们必不再称为‘我们的　神’；因为在你那里，孤儿才得着怜悯。”
现代标点和合本 - 我们不向亚述求救，不骑埃及的马，也不再对我们手所造的说 ‘你是我们的神’，因为孤儿在你耶和华那里得蒙怜悯。”
和合本（拼音版） - 我们不向亚述求救，不骑埃及的马，也不再对我们手所造的说： ‘你是我们的神。’ 因为孤儿在你耶和华那里得蒙怜悯。”
New International Version - Assyria cannot save us; we will not mount warhorses. We will never again say ‘Our gods’ to what our own hands have made, for in you the fatherless find compassion.”
New International Reader's Version - Assyria can’t save us. We won’t trust in our war horses. Our own hands have made statues of gods. But we will never call them our gods again. We are like children whose fathers have died. But you show us your tender love.”
English Standard Version - Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses; and we will say no more, ‘Our God,’ to the work of our hands. In you the orphan finds mercy.”
New Living Translation - Assyria cannot save us, nor can our warhorses. Never again will we say to the idols we have made, ‘You are our gods.’ No, in you alone do the orphans find mercy.”
Christian Standard Bible - Assyria will not save us, we will not ride on horses, and we will no longer proclaim, ‘Our gods! ’ to the work of our hands. For the fatherless receives compassion in you.”
New American Standard Bible - Assyria will not save us, We will not ride on horses; Nor will we say again, ‘Our god’ To the work of our hands; For in You the orphan finds mercy.”
New King James Version - Assyria shall not save us, We will not ride on horses, Nor will we say anymore to the work of our hands, ‘You are our gods.’ For in You the fatherless finds mercy.”
Amplified Bible - Assyria will not save us; We will not ride on horses [relying on military might], Nor will we say again to [the idols who are] the work of our hands, ‘You are our gods.’ For in You [O Lord] the orphan finds love and compassion and mercy.”
American Standard Version - Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods; for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
King James Version - Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
New English Translation - Assyria cannot save us; we will not ride warhorses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods’ to what our own hands have made. For only you will show compassion to Orphan Israel!”
World English Bible - Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”
新標點和合本 - 我們不向亞述求救，不騎埃及的馬，也不再對我們手所造的說：你是我們的神。因為孤兒在你－耶和華那裏得蒙憐憫。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 亞述不能救我們，我們不再騎馬，也不再對我們手所造的偶像說：『你是我們的上帝』；孤兒在你那裏得蒙憐憫。」
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 亞述不能救我們，我們不再騎馬，也不再對我們手所造的偶像說：『你是我們的　神』；孤兒在你那裏得蒙憐憫。」
當代譯本 - 亞述不能救我們，我們不再依靠戰馬，也不再稱自己所造的神像為我們的上帝。因為孤兒在你那裡才能得到憐憫。」
聖經新譯本 - 亞述不能救我們，我們必不再騎馬；我們親手所做的，我們必不再稱為‘我們的　神’；因為在你那裡，孤兒才得著憐憫。”
呂振中譯本 - 亞述不能拯救我們，駿馬我們必不再騎上；我們的手所造的我們必不再稱為「我們的上帝」，因為只有在你裏面孤兒得以找到憐憫。
現代標點和合本 - 我們不向亞述求救，不騎埃及的馬，也不再對我們手所造的說『你是我們的神』，因為孤兒在你耶和華那裡得蒙憐憫。」
文理和合譯本 - 我不恃亞述之救援、不復乘馬、不復謂我手所造者曰、爾為我神、孤兒必蒙矜憫於爾耶和華、
文理委辦譯本 - 我不求救於亞述、不恃驍騎、不稱所作之像為我上帝、無父之子、惟爾矜憫、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 我儕不復求救於亞述、不復欲乘伊及之馬、不再稱己手所造者為我之天主、我之天主或作我儕之神無父之子、惟主矜恤、
Nueva Versión Internacional - Asiria no podrá salvarnos; no montaremos caballos de guerra. Nunca más llamaremos “dios nuestro” a cosas hechas por nuestras manos, pues en ti el huérfano halla compasión».
현대인의 성경 - 우리는 앗시리아나 우리의 군사력을 의지하지 않을 것이며 다시는 우리가 우리 손으로 만든 것을 보고 ‘우리 신’ 이라고 부르지 않겠습니다. 이것은 고아가 주에게서만 불쌍히 여김을 받을 수 있기 때문입니다.”
Новый Русский Перевод - Возьмите с собой слова покаяния и вернитесь к Господу. Скажите Ему: «Прости все наши грехи и милостиво прими нас, чтобы мы могли принести Тебе жертву наших уст.
Восточный перевод - Вернитесь к Вечному, взяв с собой слова покаяния. Скажите Ему: «Прости все наши грехи и милостиво прими нас, и мы, как жертвенных быков, принесём Тебе хвалу наших уст.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Вернитесь к Вечному, взяв с собой слова покаяния. Скажите Ему: «Прости все наши грехи и милостиво прими нас, и мы, как жертвенных быков, принесём Тебе хвалу наших уст.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Вернитесь к Вечному, взяв с собой слова покаяния. Скажите Ему: «Прости все наши грехи и милостиво прими нас, и мы, как жертвенных быков, принесём Тебе хвалу наших уст.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Préparez vos paroles et revenez à l’Eternel, et dites-lui : ╵« Pardonne toute faute, et prends en bonne part ╵que nous t’offrions en retour, ╵en sacrifice, l’hommage de nos lèvres, ╵en guise de taureaux.
リビングバイブル - アッシリヤは私たちを救えません。私たちの戦力も救えません。もう二度と、自分たちの作った偶像を『私たちの神』と呼びません。主よ、みなしごは、あなたの中にしか、あわれみを見つけることができないのです。」
Nova Versão Internacional - A Assíria não nos pode salvar; não montaremos cavalos de guerra. Nunca mais diremos: ‘Nossos deuses àquilo que as nossas próprias mãos fizeram’, porque tu amas o órfão”.
Hoffnung für alle - Kommt zurück zum Herrn, sprecht mit ihm und sagt: »Vergib uns alle Schuld! Und nimm an, was wir dir bringen. Es ist das Beste, was wir geben können – kein Schlachtopfer, sondern unser Versprechen:
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - A-sy-ri không thể cứu chúng con, hay chúng con không cỡi ngựa chiến nữa. Không bao giờ chúng con còn gọi các tượng do mình tạo ra rằng: ‘Đây là thần của chúng tôi.’ Không, vì chỉ trong Chúa, người mồ côi mới được thương xót.”
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - อัสซีเรียไม่อาจช่วยเหล่าข้าพระองค์ได้ ข้าพระองค์ทั้งหลายจะไม่พึ่งม้าศึก จะไม่เรียกสิ่งที่มือของข้าพระองค์ทั้งหลายสร้างขึ้นนั้นว่า ‘บรรดาพระเจ้าของข้าพระองค์ทั้งหลาย’ อีกต่อไป เพราะลูกกำพร้าพ่อจะพบความเมตตาสงสารในพระองค์”
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - อัสซีเรียจะไม่ช่วยพวกเราให้รอดพ้น เราทั้งหลายจะไม่ขี่ม้าศึก และจะไม่พูดกับสิ่งที่เราทำขึ้นด้วยมือของพวกเราว่า ‘พระเจ้าของพวกเรา’ อีกต่อไป เพราะพระองค์มีเมตตาต่อเด็กกำพร้า”

Isaiah 36:8 - “‘Be reasonable. Face the facts: My master the king of Assyria will give you two thousand horses if you can put riders on them. You can’t do it, can you? So how do you think, depending on flimsy Egypt’s chariots and riders, you can stand up against even the lowest-ranking captain in my master’s army?
Psalms 20:7 - See those people polishing their chariots, and those others grooming their horses? But we’re making garlands for God our God. The chariots will rust, those horses pull up lame— and we’ll be on our feet, standing tall.
Isaiah 2:20 - On that Day men and women will take the sticks and stones They’ve decked out in gold and silver to look like gods and then worshiped, And they will dump them in any ditch or gully, Then run for rock caves and cliff hideouts To hide from the terror of God, from his dazzling presence, When he assumes his full stature on earth, towering and terrifying.
Exodus 22:22 - “Don’t mistreat widows or orphans. If you do and they cry out to me, you can be sure I’ll take them most seriously; I’ll show my anger and come raging among you with the sword, and your wives will end up widows and your children orphans.
Jeremiah 31:18 - “I’ve heard the contrition of Ephraim. Yes, I’ve heard it clearly, saying, ‘You trained me well. You broke me, a wild yearling horse, to the saddle. Now put me, trained and obedient, to use. You are my God. After those years of running loose, I repented. After you trained me to obedience, I was ashamed of my past, my wild, unruly past. Humiliated, I beat on my chest. Will I ever live this down?’
Jeremiah 31:20 - “Oh! Ephraim is my dear, dear son, my child in whom I take pleasure! Every time I mention his name, my heart bursts with longing for him! Everything in me cries out for him. Softly and tenderly I wait for him.” God’s Decree.
Jeremiah 31:21 - “Set up signposts to mark your trip home. Get a good map. Study the road conditions. The road out is the road back. Come back, dear virgin Israel, come back to your hometowns. How long will you flit here and there, indecisive? How long before you make up your fickle mind? God will create a new thing in this land: A transformed woman will embrace the transforming God!” * * *
Hosea 12:1 - Ephraim, obsessed with god-fantasies, chases ghosts and phantoms. He tells lies nonstop, soul-destroying lies. Both Ephraim and Judah made deals with Assyria and tried to get an inside track with Egypt. God is bringing charges against Israel. Jacob’s children are hauled into court to be punished. In the womb, that heel, Jacob, got the best of his brother. When he grew up, he tried to get the best of God. But God would not be bested. God bested him. Brought to his knees, Jacob wept and prayed. God found him at Bethel. That’s where he spoke with him. God is God-of-the-Angel-Armies, God-Revealed, God-Known. * * *
Proverbs 23:10 - Don’t stealthily move back the boundary lines or cheat orphans out of their property, For they have a powerful Advocate who will go to bat for them.
Micah 5:10 - “The day is coming” —God’s Decree— “When there will be no more war. None. I’ll slaughter your war horses and demolish your chariots. I’ll dismantle military posts and level your fortifications. I’ll abolish your religious black markets, your underworld traffic in black magic. I will smash your carved and cast gods and chop down your phallic posts. No more taking control of the world, worshiping what you do or make. I’ll root out your sacred sex-and-power centers and destroy the God-defiant. In raging anger, I’ll make a clean sweep of godless nations who haven’t listened.”
Psalms 146:3 - Don’t put your life in the hands of experts who know nothing of life, of salvation life. Mere humans don’t have what it takes; when they die, their projects die with them. Instead, get help from the God of Jacob, put your hope in God and know real blessing! God made sky and soil, sea and all the fish in it. He always does what he says— he defends the wronged, he feeds the hungry. God frees prisoners— he gives sight to the blind, he lifts up the fallen. God loves good people, protects strangers, takes the side of orphans and widows, but makes short work of the wicked.
2 Chronicles 16:7 - Just after that, Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said, “Because you went for help to the king of Aram and didn’t ask God for help, you’ve lost a victory over the army of the king of Aram. Didn’t the Ethiopians and Libyans come against you with superior forces, completely outclassing you with their chariots and cavalry? But you asked God for help and he gave you the victory. God is always on the alert, constantly on the lookout for people who are totally committed to him. You were foolish to go for human help when you could have had God’s help. Now you’re in trouble—one round of war after another.”
Hosea 7:11 - “Ephraim is bird-brained, mindless, clueless, First chirping after Egypt, then fluttering after Assyria. I’ll throw my net over them. I’ll clip their wings. I’ll teach them to mind me! Doom! They’ve run away from home. Now they’re really in trouble! They’ve defied me. And I’m supposed to help them while they feed me a line of lies? Instead of crying out to me in heartfelt prayer, they whoop it up in bed with their whores, Gash themselves bloody in their sex-and-religion orgies, but turn their backs on me. I’m the one who gave them good minds and healthy bodies, and how am I repaid? With evil scheming! They turn, but not to me— turn here, then there, like a weather vane. Their rulers will be cut down, murdered— just deserts for their mocking blasphemies. And the final sentence? Ridicule in the court of world opinion.”
Zechariah 13:2 - “On the Big Day”—this is God-of-the-Angel-Armies speaking—“I will wipe out the store-bought gods, erase their names from memory. People will forget they ever heard of them. And I’ll get rid of the prophets who polluted the air with their diseased words. If anyone dares persist in spreading diseased, polluting words, his very own parents will step in and say, ‘That’s it! You’re finished! Your lies about God put everyone in danger,’ and then they’ll stab him to death in the very act of prophesying lies about God—his own parents, mind you!
John 14:18 - “I will not leave you orphaned. I’m coming back. In just a little while the world will no longer see me, but you’re going to see me because I am alive and you’re about to come alive. At that moment you will know absolutely that I’m in my Father, and you’re in me, and I’m in you.
Hosea 5:13 - “When Ephraim saw he was sick and Judah saw his pus-filled sores, Ephraim went running to Assyria, went for help to the big king. But he can’t heal you. He can’t cure your oozing sores.
Isaiah 31:1 - Doom to those who go off to Egypt thinking that horses can help them, Impressed by military mathematics, awed by sheer numbers of chariots and riders— And to The Holy of Israel, not even a glance, not so much as a prayer to God. Still, he must be reckoned with, a most wise God who knows what he’s doing. He can call down catastrophe. He’s a God who does what he says. He intervenes in the work of those who do wrong, stands up against interfering evildoers. Egyptians are mortal, not God, and their horses are flesh, not Spirit. When God gives the signal, helpers and helped alike will fall in a heap and share the same dirt grave. * * *
Psalms 10:14 - But you know all about it— the contempt, the abuse. I dare to believe that the luckless will get lucky someday in you. You won’t let them down: orphans won’t be orphans forever.
Psalms 68:5 - Father of orphans, champion of widows, is God in his holy house. God makes homes for the homeless, leads prisoners to freedom, but leaves rebels to rot in hell.