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Hosea

ESV

Chapter 5

¹Hear this, O priests! Pay attention, O house of Israel! Give ear, O house of the king! For the judgment is for you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor. ²The rebels have gone deep into slaughter, but I will discipline all of them. ³I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore; Israel is defiled. ⁴Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God, for the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not the LORD. ⁵The pride of Israel testifies against him; Ephraim shall stumble in his iniquity; Judah also shall stumble with them. ⁶With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the LORD, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them. ⁷They have dealt faithlessly with the LORD; for they have produced children that are illegitimate. Now a new moon shall devour them with their fields. ⁸Blow the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah! Sound the alarm at Beth-aven; we follow after you, O Benjamin! ⁹Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I declare what is sure. ¹⁰The princes of Judah have become like those who move the landmark; upon them I will pour out my wrath like water. ¹¹Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to follow human precept. ¹²But I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like rottenness to the house of Judah. ¹³When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king. But he is not able to cure you or heal your wound. ¹⁴For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear and depart; I will carry away, and no one shall rescue. ¹⁵I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress earnestly seek me.