Hosea 5:1–15
Impending Judgment on Israel and Judah
5 “Hear this, O priests!
Take heed, O house of Israel!
Give ear, O house of the king!
For 1yours is the judgment,
Because ayou have been a snare to Mizpah
And a net spread on Tabor.
2 The revolters are bdeeply involved in slaughter,
Though I rebuke them all.
3 cI know Ephraim,
And Israel is not hidden from Me;
For now, O Ephraim, dyou commit harlotry;
Israel is defiled.
4 “They 2do not direct their deeds
Toward turning to their God,
For ethe spirit of harlotry is in their midst,
And they do not know the Lord.
5 The fpride of Israel testifies to his face;
Therefore Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity;
Judah also stumbles with them.
6 “With their flocks and herds
gThey shall go to seek the Lord,
But they will not find Him;
He has withdrawn Himself from them.
7 They have hdealt treacherously with the Lord,
For they have begotten 3pagan children.
Now a New Moon shall devour them and their heritage.
8 “Blow ithe ram’s horn in Gibeah,
The trumpet in Ramah!
‘Look behind you, O Benjamin!’
9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke;
Among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure.
10 “The princes of Judah are like those who lremove a landmark;
I will pour out my wrath on them like water.
11 Ephraim is moppressed and broken in judgment,
Because he willingly walked by nhuman precept.
12 Therefore I will be to Ephraim like a moth,
And to the house of Judah olike rottenness.
13 “When Ephraim saw his sickness,
And Judah saw his pwound,
Then Ephraim went qto Assyria
And sent to King Jareb;
Yet he cannot cure you,
Nor heal you of your wound.
14 For rI will be like a lion to Ephraim,
And like a young lion to the house of Judah.
sI, even I, will tear them and go away;
I will take them away, and no one shall rescue.
15 I will return again to My place
Till they 4acknowledge their offense.
Then they will seek My face;
In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”