Hos 5
1
Hear this, O ye priests, and attend, ye house of Israel, and give ear, O house of
the king, for unto you pertaineth the judgment; for ye have been a snare on Mizpah,
and a net spread upon Tabor.
2
And they that fall away are gone deep in making slaughter; and I am rejected of them
all.
3
I, even I, know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from Me; for now, O Ephraim, thou hast
committed harlotry, Israel is defiled.
4
Their doings will not suffer them to return unto their God; for the spirit of harlotry
is within them, and they know not the LORD.
5
But the pride of Israel shall testify to his face; and Israel and Ephraim shall stumble
in their iniquity, Judah also shall stumble with them.
6
With their flocks and with their herds they shall go to seek the LORD, but they shall
not find Him; He hath withdrawn Himself from them.
7
They have dealt treacherously against the LORD, for they have begotten strange children;
now shall the new moon devour them with their portions.
8
Blow ye the horn in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah; sound an alarm at Beth-aven:
'Behind thee, O Benjamin!'
9
Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke; among the tribes of Israel do I make
known that which shall surely be.
10
The princes of Judah are like them that remove the landmark; I will pour out My wrath
upon them like water.
11
Oppressed is Ephraim, crushed in his right; because he willingly walked after filth.
12
Therefore am I unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
13
And when Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria, and
sent to King Contentious; but he is not able to heal you, neither shall he cure you
of your wound.
14
For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah; I,
even I, will tear and go away, I will take away, and there shall be none to deliver.
15
I will go and return to My place, till they acknowledge their guilt, and seek My face;
in their trouble they will seek Me earnestly: