Hosea 5

Punishment Coming for Israel and Judah

1 *ch. 4:1;Joel 1:2;Amos 3:1;Mic. 1:2Hear this, O priests!

Pay attention, O house of Israel!

Give ear, O house of the king!

For the judgment is for you;

for *[ch. 6:9;9:8] you have been a snare at Mizpah

and a net spread upon *Judg. 4:6Tabor.

2 And *[ch. 9:15] the revolters *[ch. 9:9;Isa. 29:15] have gone deep into slaughter,

but *[Ps. 50:21]I will discipline all of them.

3 *[Amos 3:2;5:12]I know Ephraim,

and Israel is not hidden from me;

for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore;

Israel is defiled.

4 *[Isa. 59:2] Their deeds do not permit them

to return to their God.

For *ch. 4:12the spirit of whoredom is within them,

and they know not the Lord.

5 *ch. 7:10The pride of Israel testifies to his face;*5:5 Or in his presence

Israel and *See ch. 6:4Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt;

*See ch. 6:4Judah also shall stumble with them.

6 *ch. 6:6;Isa. 1:11With their flocks and herds they shall go

to seek the Lord,

*ch. 6:6;Isa. 1:11but they will not find him;

*ch. 9:12he has withdrawn from them.

7 *ch. 6:7They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord;

for they have borne alien children.

Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.

8 *ch. 8:1;Jer. 4:5Blow the horn in *ch. 9:9;10:9Gibeah,

the trumpet in *Josh. 18:25Ramah.

Sound the alarm at *See ch. 4:15Beth-aven;

we follow you,*5:8 Or after you O Benjamin!

9 Ephraim shall become a desolation

in the day of punishment;

among the tribes of Israel

I make known what is sure.

10 The princes of Judah have become

like *Deut. 19:14those who move the landmark;

upon them I will pour out

my wrath like water.

11 Ephraim is *Deut. 28:33;Amos 4:1oppressed, crushed in judgment,

because he was determined to go after filth.*5:11 Or to follow human precepts

12 But I am *[Job 13:28]like a moth to Ephraim,

and *[Job 13:28]like dry rot to the house of Judah.

13 When Ephraim saw his sickness,

and Judah *[Isa. 1:5,6] his wound,

then Ephraim went *ch. 7:11;8:9;12:1;2 Kgs. 15:19to Assyria,

and sent to the great king.*5:13 Or to King Jareb

*ch. 14:3But he is not able to cure you

or heal *[Isa. 1:5,6] your wound.

14 For I will be *ch. 13:7like a lion to *See ch. 6:4Ephraim,

and like a young lion to the house of *See ch. 6:4Judah.

*[Mic. 5:8]I, even I, will tear and go away;

I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.

15 *[Jer. 29:10-12;Ezek. 6:9]; See Lev. 26:40-42I will return again to my place,

until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,

and *Isa. 26:16in their distress earnestly seek me.