Old Testament · Prophets

Hosea chapter 5

Hear this, you priests. Pay attention, house of Israel. Listen closely, royal family— because this is aimed at you. You became a at Mizpah, a net stretched out over Tabor.The have gone deep into slaughter, but I will every one of them.I know through and through, and Israel is not hidden from me. Because right now, Ephraim, you have given yourself to — Israel has made itself filthy.Their actions will not let them return to their God. A lives inside them, and they do not Yahweh.Israel’s testifies right to its face. Israel and Ephraim will stumble under the weight of their , and Judah will stumble alongside them.They will go with their to seek Yahweh, but they will not find him. He has from them.They have been to Yahweh; they have fathered . Now the will devour them along with everything they have.Blow the in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah! Sound the battle cry in — look behind you, Benjamin!Ephraim will become a on the day of . Among the tribes of Israel I am making known what is certain.The leaders of Judah have become like those who . I will pour out my on them like a flood of water.Ephraim is , justice is shattered, because he was determined to chase after .So I am like a to Ephraim, like to the house of Judah.When Ephraim saw how he was, and Judah saw his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to the for help. But he cannot heal you, and he cannot close your wound.Because I will be like a to Ephraim, like a to the house of Judah. I—I myself—will tear them apart and leave. I will carry them off, and no one will rescue them.I will go back to my place until they and . In their desperation, they will .