5Hosea 5

1`Hear this, O priests, and attend, O house of Israel, And, O house of the king, give ear, For the judgment is for you, For, a snare ye have been on Mizpah, And a net spread out on Tabor.Select Hosea 5:1

2And to slaughter sinners have gone deep, And I am a fetter to them all.Select Hosea 5:2

3I have known Ephraim, And Israel hath not been hid from me, For now thou hast gone a-whoring, Ephraim, Defiled is Israel.Select Hosea 5:3

4They give not up their habitual doings, To turn back unto their God, For a spirit of whoredoms is in their midst, And Jehovah they have not known.Select Hosea 5:4

5And humbled hath been the excellency of Israel to his face, And Israel and Ephraim stumble by their iniquity, Stumbled also hath Judah with them.Select Hosea 5:5

6With their flock and with their herd, They go to seek Jehovah, and do not find, He hath withdrawn from them.Select Hosea 5:6

7Against Jehovah they dealt treacherously, For strange sons they have begotten, Now consume them doth a month with their portions.Select Hosea 5:7

8Blow ye a cornet in Gibeah, a trumpet in Ramah, Shout, O Beth-Aven, after thee, O Benjamin.Select Hosea 5:8

9Ephraim is for a desolation in a day of reproof, Among the tribes of Israel I have made known a sure thing.Select Hosea 5:9

10Princes of Judah have been as those removing a border, On them I do pour out as water My wrath.Select Hosea 5:10

11Oppressed is Ephraim, broken in judgment, When he pleased he went after the command.Select Hosea 5:11

12And I am as a moth to Ephraim, And as a rotten thing to the house of Judah.Select Hosea 5:12

13And see doth Ephraim his sickness, and Judah his wound, And Ephraim goeth unto Asshur, And sendeth unto a warlike king, And he is not able to give healing to you, Nor doth he remove from you a scar.Select Hosea 5:13

14For I am as a lion to Ephraim, And as a young lion to the house of Judah, I--I tear and go, I bear away, and there is no deliverer.Select Hosea 5:14

15I go--I turn back unto My place, Till that they are desolate, and have sought My face. In their distress they do seek Me speedily!'Select Hosea 5:15