Hosea 5

    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;
    but I discipline all of them.
³ I know Ephraim,
    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;
    for the spirit of prostitution is within them,
    and they don’t know Yahweh.
⁵ The pride of Israel testifies to his face.
    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 Yahweh;
    but they won’t find him.
    He has withdrawn himself from them.
⁷ They are unfaithful to Yahweh;
    for they have borne illegitimate children.
    Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.

⁸ “Blow the cornet in Gibeah,
    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.
    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.
    I will pour out my wrath on them like water.
¹¹ Ephraim is oppressed,
    he is crushed in judgment;
    Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.
¹² Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth,
    and to the house of Judah like rottenness.

¹³ “When Ephraim saw his sickness,
    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,
    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,
    until they acknowledge their offense,
    and seek my face.
    In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”

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