Hosea 5

1Hear ye this, O priests;

And hearken, ye house of Israel;

And give ye ear, O house of the king;

For judgment is toward you,

Because ye have been a snare on Mizpah,

And a net spread upon Tabor.

2And the revolters are profound to make slaughter,

Though I have been a rebuker of them all.

3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me:

For now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.

4They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God:

For the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them,

And they have not known the Lord.

5And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face:

Therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity;

Judah also shall fall with them.

6They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the Lord;

But they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.

7They have dealt treacherously against the Lord:

For they have begotten strange children:

Now shall a month devour them with their portions.

8Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah,

And the trumpet in Ramah:

Cry aloud at Beth-aven,

After thee, O Benjamin.

9Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke:

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

10The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound:

Therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

11Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment,

Because he willingly walked after the commandment.

12Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth,

And to the house of Judah as rottenness.

13When Ephraim saw his sickness,

And Judah saw his wound,

Then went Ephraim to the Assyrian,

And sent to king Jareb:

Yet could he not heal you,

Nor cure you of your wound.

14For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion,

And as a young lion to the house of Judah:

I, even I, will tear and go away;

I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

15I will go and return to my place,

Till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face:

In their affliction they will seek me early.