HoseaChapter 5

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¹"Hear this, you priests!
Pay attention, house of Israel!
Listen, royal house!
This judgment is against you.
For you have been a trap at Mizpah,
a net spread out on Tabor. ²The rebels are deep in killing,
but I will punish them all. ³I know all about Ephraim.
Israel is not hidden from me.
For now, Ephraim, you have turned to prostitution.
Israel is made unclean. ⁴Their deeds do not let them return to their God.
For a spirit of prostitution is in them,
and they do not know the LORD. ⁵Israel's pride speaks against them.
Israel and Ephraim stumble in their sin.
Judah stumbles with them too. ⁶They go with their flocks and herds
to seek the LORD,
but they do not find him.
He has pulled away from them. ⁷They have been unfaithful to the LORD.
They have had children by other men.
Now the New Moon will eat them up,
along with their land. ⁸Blow the ram's horn in Gibeah!
Blow the trumpet in Ramah!
Shout the battle cry in Beth-aven:
'Lead on, Benjamin!' ⁹Ephraim will be ruined
on the day of punishment.
Among the tribes of Israel
I tell what will surely happen. ¹⁰The leaders of Judah are like those
who move boundary stones.
I will pour out my anger on them like water. ¹¹Ephraim is beaten down,
crushed in judgment.
For he is set on following worthless idols. ¹²So I am like a moth to Ephraim,
and like rot to the house of Judah. ¹³Ephraim saw his sickness,
and Judah saw his wound.
Then Ephraim turned to Assyria
and sent to the great king.
But he cannot cure you
or heal your wound. ¹⁴For I am like a lion to Ephraim,
like a young lion to the house of Judah.
I myself will tear them to pieces and then go away.
I will carry them off,
and no one will rescue them. ¹⁵Then I will go back to my place
until they admit their guilt
and seek my face.
In their trouble they will search hard for me."