Hosea 5 · Clearspring

Judgment on Israel and Judah

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.+ ²And to slaughter sinners have gone deep, And I am a fetter to them all.+ ³I have known Ephraim, And Israel hath not been hid from me, For now thou hast gone a-whoring, Ephraim, Defiled is Israel.+ 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.+ 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also hath Judah with them.+ ⁶With their flock and with their herd, They go to seek Jehovah, and do not find, He hath withdrawn from them.+ ⁷Against Jehovah they dealt treacherously, For strange sons they have begotten, Now consume them doth a month with their portions.+ ⁸Blow ye a cornet in Gibeah, a trumpet in Ramah, Shout, O Beth-Aven, after thee, O Benjamin.+ ⁹Ephraim is for a desolation in a day of reproof, Among the tribes of Israel I have made known a sure thing.+ ¹⁰Princes of Judah have been as those removing a border, On them I do pour out as water My wrath.+ ¹¹Oppressed is Ephraim, broken in judgment, When he pleased he went after the command.+ ¹²And I am as a moth to Ephraim, And as a rotten thing to the house of Judah.+ 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.+ 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.+ 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!'+

Judgment on Israel and Judah

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