Hosea 5–6

5^aHear ye this, O priests;

And hearken, ye house of Israel;

And give ye ear, O house of the king;

For judgment is toward you,

Because ^bye have been ^ca snare on ^dMizpah,

And ^ea net spread upon ^fTabor.

²And ^gthe revolters ^hare profound to make slaughter,

^||Though I have been ^†a rebuker of them all.

³ⁱI know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me:

For now, ^kO Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and ^kIsrael is defiled.

^4†||They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God:

For ^lthe spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them,

And they have not known the Lord.

⁵And ^mthe pride of Israel doth testify ⁿto his face:

Therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity;

Judah also shall fall with them.

⁶They shall go ^owith their flocks and with their herds ^pto seek the Lord;

^pBut they shall not find him; ^pphe hath withdrawn himself from them.

⁷They have ^qdealt treacherously against the Lord:

For they have begotten strange children:

Now shall ^ra month devour them with their portions.

^8sBlow ye ^tthe cornet in ^uGibeah,

And ^vthe trumpet in ^wRamah:

^xCry aloud at ^yBeth-aven,

^zAfter thee, O Benjamin.

⁹Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke:

Among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.

¹⁰The princes of Judah were like ^athem that remove the bound:

Therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

¹¹Ephraim is ^boppressed and ^bbroken in judgment,

Because he willingly walked after ^cthe commandment.

¹²Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as ^dea moth,

And to the house of Judah as ^||drottenness.

¹³When Ephraim saw his sickness,

And Judah saw his ^fwound,

Then went Ephraim ^gto the Assyrian,

And ^hsent ^||to king Jareb:

Yet could he not heal you,

Nor cure you of your ^fwound.

¹⁴For ^kI will be unto Ephraim as ^la lion,

And as a young lion to the house of Judah:

^mI, even I, will tear and go away;

I will take away, and ^mnone shall rescue him.

¹⁵I will go and return to my place,

^†Till ⁿthey acknowledge their offence, and seek my face:

^oIn their affliction they will ^pseek me early.

6Come, and ^alet us return unto the Lord:

For ^bhe hath ^ctorn, and ^bdhe will heal us;

He hath smitten, and ^ehe will bind us up.

²After two days will ^fhe revive us:

^gIn the third day he will raise us up,

And we shall live in his sight.

^3hThen shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord:

ⁱHis going forth is prepared ^jas the morning;

And ^khe shall come unto us as the rain,

As ^lmthe latter and ^lformer rain unto the earth.

⁴ⁿO Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee?

ⁿO Judah, what shall I do unto thee?

For your ^||goodness is ^oas a morning cloud,

^oAnd as the early dew it goeth away.

⁵Therefore have I hewed them ^pby the prophets;

I have slain them ^qby the words of my mouth:

^||And thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.

⁶For ^rI desired mercy, and ^rsnot sacrifice;

And ^tthe knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

⁷But they ^||like men ^uhave transgressed the covenant:

There ^vhave they dealt treacherously against me.

^8wGilead is a city of them that work iniquity,

And is ^||polluted with blood.

⁹And as ^ytroops of robbers wait for a man,

^zSo ^athe company of priests murder in the way ^†by consent:

For ^dthey commit ^||lewdness.

¹⁰I have seen ^ean horrible thing in the house of Israel:

^fThere is the whoredom of Ephraim, ^fIsrael is defiled.

¹¹Also, O Judah, ^ghe hath set an harvest for thee,

^hWhen I returned the captivity of my people.