World English Bible

 

The Book of Hosea

 

Chapter 5

 

 

1.

 

Hear this, you priests, and listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king; for to you pertains the judgment; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.

    
 
 

2.

 

The rebels have gone deep in making slaughter; but I discipline them all.

    
 
 

3.

 

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute, Israel is defiled.

    
 
 

4.

 

Their doings will not allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don't know Yahweh.

    
 
 

5.

 

The pride of Israel does testify to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity; Judah also shall stumble with them.

    
 
 

6.

 

They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh; but they shall not find him: he has withdrawn himself from them.

    
 
 

7.

 

They have dealt treacherously against Yahweh; for they have borne strange children: now shall the new moon devour them with their fields.

    
 
 

8.

 

Blow you the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: sound an alarm at Beth-aven; behind you, Benjamin.

    
 
 

9.

 

Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.

    
 
 

10.

 

The princes of Judah are like those who remove the landmark: I will pour out my wrath on them like water.

    
 
 

11.

 

Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; because he was content to walk after [man's] command.

    
 
 

12.

 

Therefore am I to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

    
 
 

13.

 

When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah [saw] his wound, then went Ephraim to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.

    
 
 

14.

 

For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and there shall be none to deliver.

    
 
 

15.

 

I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me earnestly.

    
 
 

Hosea 6

 

 

 

 

 
 
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