Hosea 5

1 “Listen to this, you priests! ‡ Hos 9:8Hab 1:15-17Hos 6:9Mic 3:9Mic 7:21Ki 21:18-222Ch 21:12-15Amo 7:9 +14

Listen, house of Israel,

and give ear, house of the king!

For the judgment is against you;

for you have been a snare at Mizpah,

and a net spread on Tabor.

2 The rebels are deep in slaughter, ‡ Hos 9:15Isa 29:15Hos 6:9Act 23:12-15Amo 4:6-12Hos 4:2Hos 6:5Isa 1:5 +10

but I discipline all of them.

3 I know Ephraim, ‡ Amo 3:2Heb 4:131Ki 12:26-331Ki 14:14-16Amo 5:12Deu 33:17Ezk 23:5-21Gen 48:19-20 +12

and Israel is not hidden from me;

for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute.

Israel is defiled.

4 Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God, ‡ Hos 4:121Jn 2:3-42Th 2:11-12Hos 4:1Hos 4:6Jer 22:15-16Jer 24:7Jer 50:38 +9

for the spirit of prostitution is within them,

and they don’t know the LORD.

5 The pride of Israel testifies to his face. ‡ Hos 7:10Amo 5:2Ezk 23:31-35Luk 19:22Pro 24:162Ki 17:19-20Amo 2:4-5Hos 14:1 +14

Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity.

Judah also will stumble with them.

6 They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD, ‡ Jhn 7:34Pro 1:28Mic 6:6-7Ezk 8:6Isa 1:11-15Jer 7:4Lam 3:44Pro 15:8 +10

but they won’t find him.

He has withdrawn himself from them.

7 They are unfaithful to the LORD; ‡ Hos 6:7Ezk 12:28Hos 2:4Isa 48:8Jer 3:20Psa 144:11Psa 144:7Hos 2:11 +5

for they have borne illegitimate children.

Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.

8 “Blow the cornet in Gibeah, ‡ Hos 4:15Hos 9:9Jol 2:11Sa 15:34Jer 4:5Hos 8:1Isa 10:29Jdg 5:14 +11

and the trumpet in Ramah!

Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin!

9 Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. ‡ Hos 9:11-17Isa 46:10Zec 1:6Isa 28:1-4Jhn 16:4Amo 3:14-15Amo 3:7Amo 7:17 +11

Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.

10 The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. ‡ Deu 19:14Psa 32:6Psa 93:3-4Deu 27:172Ch 28:16-222Ki 16:7-9Ezk 7:8Luk 6:49 +4

I will pour out my wrath on them like water.

11 Ephraim is oppressed, ‡ Mic 6:16Deu 28:331Ki 12:26-332Ki 15:16-202Ki 15:29Amo 5:11-12

he is crushed in judgment,

because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.

12 Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, ‡ Isa 51:8Job 13:28Jon 4:7Isa 50:9Mrk 9:43-48Pro 12:4

and to the house of Judah like rottenness.

13 “When Ephraim saw his sickness, ‡ Hos 7:11Jer 30:122Ki 15:19Hos 10:6Hos 12:1Hos 8:9Jer 30:14-152Ch 28:16-18 +5

and Judah his wound,

then Ephraim went 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 like a lion, ‡ Mic 5:8Psa 7:2Hos 13:7-8Psa 50:22Amo 2:14Amo 3:4-8Isa 5:29Job 10:16 +3

and like a young lion to the house of Judah.

I myself will tear in pieces and go away.

I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.

15 I will go and return to my place, ‡ Isa 26:16Jer 29:12-14Deu 4:29-31Psa 78:34Lev 26:40-42Psa 50:15Jer 3:13Ezk 36:31 +34

until they acknowledge their offense,

and seek my face.

In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”