Hosea 5
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- 1Listen to this, you priests! Pay attention, people of Israel! Hear this, you royal household! This judgment is aimed at you, because you've been a trap at Mizpah and a net spread out on Tabor.
- 2These rebels have sunk deep into slaughter, but I will discipline every one of them.
- 3I know Ephraim well, and Israel can't hide from me. Ephraim, you have prostituted yourself, and Israel is stained with sin.
- 4They will not shape their actions so that they may turn to their God, for the spirit of prostitution is among them, and they have not known the LORD.
- 5Israel’s pride testifies to his face. Therefore, Israel and Ephraim will fall in their iniquity, and Judah will also fall with them.
- 6They will go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them.
- 7They have been unfaithful to the LORD, for they have fathered strange children. Now a month will devour them along with their possessions.
- 8Blow the ram's horn in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah. Cry out at Beth-aven, after you, O Benjamin.
- 9Ephraim will become a wasteland on the day of punishment. I have announced among the tribes of Israel what is certain to happen.
- 10The princes of Judah were like those who move a boundary line. I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
- 11Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment because he willingly followed the commandment.
- 12So I will be like a moth to Ephraim, and like rot to the house of Judah.
- 13When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah saw his wound, Ephraim went to the Assyrian and sent to King Jareb for help. But he could not heal you or cure your wound.
- 14I will be like a lion to Ephraim, like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear them apart and walk away. I will carry them off, and no one will be able to rescue them.
- 15Then I will return to my place until they acknowledge their offense and seek my face. In their affliction, they will seek me earnestly.