And to the messenger of the church in  ¹Sardis write: These things says He who has the  ²seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: I know your works, that you have a  ³name that you are living, and yet you are dead.

Become watchful and establish the  ¹things which remain, which were about to die; for I have found none of your works  ²completed before My God.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and keep it and repent. If therefore you will not watch, I will come as a  ¹thief, and you shall by no means know at what hour I will come upon you.

But you have a few names in Sardis who have not  ¹defiled their garments, and they will walk with Me in  ²white because they are worthy.

He who  ¹overcomes will be  ²clothed thus, in white garments, and I shall by no means  ³erase his name out of the  ⁴book of life, and I will  ⁵confess his name before My Father and before His angels.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

And to the messenger of the church in  ¹Philadelphia write: These things says the  ²Holy One, the true One, the One who has the  ³key of David, the One who opens and no one will shut, and shuts and no one opens:

I know your works; behold, I have put before you an  ¹opened door which no one can shut, because you have a  ²little power and have kept My word and have not denied My  ³name.

Behold, I will make those of the  ¹synagogue of Satan, those who call themselves Jews and are  ²not, but lie — behold, I will cause them to come and fall  ³prostrate before your feet and to know that I have loved you.

Because you have kept the  ¹word of My endurance, I also will  ²keep you out of the hour of trial, which is about to come on the whole inhabited earth, to try them who dwell on the earth.

I  ¹come quickly; hold fast what you have that no one take your  ²crown.

He who  ¹overcomes, him I will make a  ²pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall by no means go out anymore, and I will write upon him the  ³name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which descends out of heaven from My God, and My new name.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

And to the messenger of the church in  ¹Laodicea write: These things says the  ²Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the  ³beginning of the creation of God:

I know your works, that you are neither cold nor  ¹hot; I wish that you were cold or  ¹hot.

So, because you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I am about to  ¹spew you out of My mouth.

Because you  ¹say, I am wealthy and have become rich and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are  ²wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,

I counsel you to  ¹buy from Me  ²gold refined by fire that you may be rich, and  ³white garments that you may be clothed and that the shame of your nakedness may not be manifested, and  ⁴eyesalve to anoint your eyes that you may see.

As many as I love I reprove and discipline; be  ¹zealous therefore and repent.

Behold, I stand at the  ¹door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and  ²opens the door, then I will come in to him and  ³dine with him and he with Me.

He who  ¹overcomes, to him I will give to  ²sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat with My Father on His throne.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the  ¹churches.

A trumpet to your lips!
Like an eagle he comes against the house of Jehovah,
Because they have trespassed My  ¹covenant
And have transgressed against My law.

They will cry unto Me,
My God, we — Israel — know You.

Israel has cast off what is good;
The enemy will pursue him.

They have set up kings, but not by Me;
They have set up princes, but I did not acknowledge it.
With their silver and their gold they made
Idols for themselves,
That they might be cut off.

Your  ¹calf has cast you off, O Samaria;
My anger burns against them.
How long will they be incapable of  ²innocence?

For from Israel is this!
A workman made it;
Thus it is no God.
The calf of Samaria
Will be shattered to pieces.

For they have sown wind,
And they will reap a whirlwind.
It has no stalk; should there be a sprout,
It will not produce flour;
If it should produce,
Strangers will swallow it up.

Israel has been swallowed up;
Now they have become among the nations
Like a vessel in which no one takes pleasure.

For they have gone up to Assyria
Like a wild ass gone alone by itself;
Ephraim has hired lovers.

Indeed though they have hired such among the nations,
I will now gather them;
And they will begin to be diminished because of the burden
Of the king of the princes.

Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin,
Altars will be to him for sin.

I wrote for him the ten thousand things of My law,
But they are considered as a strange thing.

As for the sacrifices of My offerings,
They sacrifice flesh and eat it,
But Jehovah has no delight in them.
Now He will remember their iniquity,
And He will punish their sins;
They will return to Egypt.

For Israel has forgotten his Maker
And has built palaces,
And Judah has multiplied fortified cities;
But I will send  ¹fire into his cities,
And it will devour its citadels.

Do not rejoice, O Israel,
To exult like the nations.
For you have gone as a harlot away from your God;
You have loved payment
Upon every grain floor.

The threshing floor and the winepress will not feed them,
And the new wine will fail her.

They will not dwell in the land of Jehovah;
But Ephraim will return to Egypt,
And in Assyria they will eat what is unclean.

They will not pour out offerings of wine to Jehovah,
Neither will their sacrifices be pleasing to Him;
They will be to them as the bread of mourning;
All who eat them will be unclean,
For their bread will be for themselves;
It will not come into the house of Jehovah.

What will you do
In the day of assembly
And in the day of the feast of Jehovah?

For they will go because of destruction;
Egypt will gather them;
 ¹Moph will bury them.
As for their desirable  ²things of silver, nettles will dispossess them;
Thistles will be in their tents.

The days of the visitation have come;
The days of the recompense have come;
Israel will know it.
The prophet is a fool,
The  ¹inspired man is mad,
Because of the greatness of your iniquity
And because of the greatness of the enmity.

Ephraim was a  ¹watchman
With my God.
As for the  ²prophet, a fowler's trap
Is in all his ways;
Enmity is in the house of his God.

They have deeply corrupted themselves
As in the days of  ¹Gibeah;
He will remember their iniquity;
He will punish their sins.

I  ¹found Israel
Like grapes in the wilderness;
I saw your fathers
As the first ripe fruit on the fig tree at its beginning.
They went to Baal-peor
And sanctified themselves unto the shameful thing,
And they became detestable, like the thing that they loved.

As for Ephraim, their glory
Will fly away like a bird —
No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!

For even if they bring up their children,
I will bereave them, so that not a man is left.
Indeed woe also to them
When I turn away from them.

Ephraim, as I have seen him,
Is planted like Tyre in a meadow;
But Ephraim will bring forth
His children to the slayer.

Give them, O Jehovah —
What will You give them?
Give them a miscarrying womb
And dry breasts.

All their evil is in Gilgal,
For there I hated them.
Because of the evil of their doings
I will drive them from My house,
I will love them no more;
All their princes are rebels.

Ephraim is stricken;
Their root is dried up;
They will not bear fruit.
Indeed though they bring forth,
I will kill the beloved fruit of their womb.

My God has rejected them,
For they did not listen to Him.
And they will be wanderers among the nations.

Israel is a luxuriant vine;
He brings forth fruit for  ¹himself.
According to the abundance of his fruit
He has multiplied altars;
According to the goodness of their land
They have made pillars well.

Their heart is divided;
Now they will be found guilty.
He Himself will break down their altars;
He will destroy their pillars.

For now they will say,
We have  ¹no king,
For we did not fear Jehovah;
And the king, what can he do for us?

They speak mere words,
Swearing falsely
While making a covenant;
And judgment sprouts forth like poisonous weeds
In the furrows of the field.

The inhabitants of Samaria will fear
For the calves of  ¹Beth-aven;
For its people will mourn over it,
And its idol priests  ²will tremble for it,
For its glory,
Because it has departed from it.

Indeed it will be carried to Assyria:
A present to the warrior king.
Ephraim will be taken in shame,
And Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel.

Samaria will be cut off with her king
And will be like twigs on the surface of the water.

And the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel,
Will be destroyed.
The thorn and the thistle will come up
Upon their altars;
And they will say to the mountains, Cover us!
And to the hills, Fall on us!

Since the days of Gibeah
You have sinned, O Israel;
There they have stood.
Did not the battle
Overtake them in Gibeah
Because of the children of iniquity?

When I so desire, I will chastise them;
And the peoples will be gathered against them,
When they are bound for their  ¹double iniquity.

And Ephraim is a trained heifer
That loves to tread the grain;
But I have passed the yoke
Over her fair neck:
I will make Ephraim draw the plow;
Judah will plow;
Jacob will break his clods.

 ¹Sow unto righteousness for yourselves;
Reap according to lovingkindness;
Break up your  ²fallow ground;
For it is time to seek Jehovah
Until He comes and rains
Righteousness on you.

You have plowed wickedness;
You have reaped injustice;
You have eaten the fruit of lying.
For you have trusted in your way,
In the multitude of your mighty men.

And a  ¹tumult will arise among your peoples;
And all your fortresses will be devastated,
As Shalman devastated Beth-arbel
In the day of battle:
The mother was dashed in pieces with the children.

Thus Bethel will cause this to happen to you
Because of your great evil:
At  ¹dawn the king of Israel
Will be utterly cut off.