Hosea Chapter 5 Back Next{5:1} "Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of
Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.
{5:2} The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I discipline all of them.
{5:3} I know
Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.
{5:4} Their deeds won't allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don't know Yahweh.
{5:5} The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity.
Judah also will stumble with them.
{5:6} They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh; but they won't find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.
{5:7} They are un
faithful to Yahweh; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their
fields.
{5:8} "Blow the
cornet in
Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah! Sound a battle cry at
Beth Aven, behind you,
Benjamin!
{5:9} Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.
{5:10} The princes of Judah are like those who remove a
landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.
{5:11} Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of
idols.
{5:12} Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.
{5:13} "When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to
Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.
{5:14} For I will be to Ephraim like a
lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.
{5:15} I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly."
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