Hosea 5

Judgment on Israel and Judah

¹“ Hear this, O priests! And pay attention, O house of Israel! And house is toward you, turn your ear! Indeed unto you is the judgment, because you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread out on Tabor.

²And into slaughter the rebels are deep; and I will discipline all of them.

³I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me; for now, you engage in prositution, O Ephraim; Israel is defiled.

⁴Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and YHWH they do not know.

⁵And answers the pride of Israel to his face; and Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; Judah also stumbles with them.

⁶With their flocks and herds they will go to seek YHWH, and they will not find; He has withdrawn from them.

⁷To YHWH they were unfaithful, for they have borne strange sons. Now the New Moon will devour them with their portions!

⁸Blow the shofar in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah! Give a shout in Beth-Aven; after you, O Benjamin!

⁹Ephraim will become as a desolation on the day of rebuke; among the tribes of Israel I make known what is certain.

¹⁰The princes of Judah have become like those moving a landmark; on them I will pour out my wrath like the waters.

¹¹Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was willing to walk after worthless idols.

¹²And I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like rot to the house of Judah.

¹³When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria, and he sent to the great king; and he is not able to bring healing to you, and he cannot remove your wound.

¹⁴For I am like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I—I, will tear them and go away; I will take them, and no one is delivering.

¹⁵I will go—I will turn back to My place, until that they acknowledge their guilt and seek My face; in affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”