Hosea 5
1 Hear this, priests; pay attention, house of Israel; listen, house of the king, for judgment is against you. For you have become a snare at Mizpah and a net spread over Tabor.
2 The rebels have deepened the slaughter, and I am the one who will discipline them all.
3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now you have prostituted yourself, Ephraim, and Israel has defiled itself.
4 Their deeds will not let them return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they have not known the LORD.
5 Israel’s pride testifies against him; Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their guilt, and Judah too has stumbled with them.
6 With their flocks and herds they will go to seek the LORD, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.
7 They have acted treacherously against the LORD, for they have fathered foreign children; now the new moon will devour them, along with their portions.
8 Blow the trumpet in Gibeah, the horn in Ramah; raise the alarm in Beth-aven: behind you, Benjamin!
9 Ephraim will become a desolation on the day of rebuke; among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure.
10 The leaders of Judah are like those who move boundary markers; I will pour out my fury on them like water.
11 Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in justice, because he chose to follow commands.
12 I am like a moth to Ephraim and like rot to the house of Judah.
13 Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound; then Ephraim went to Assyria and sent word to King Jareb. But he cannot heal you or remove your wound.
14 For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, I myself, will tear them apart and go away; I will carry them off, and no one will rescue them.
15 I will go and return to my place until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face; in their distress they will seek me.
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