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Hosea 5
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1“Listen to this, you priests!
- Listen, house of Israel,
- and give ear, house of the king!
- For the judgment is against you;
- for you have been a snare at Mizpah,
- and a net spread on Tabor.
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2The rebels are deep in slaughter;
- but I discipline all of them.
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3I know Ephraim,
- and Israel is not hidden from me;
- for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute.
- Israel is defiled.
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4Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God;
- for the spirit of prostitution is within them,
- and they don’t know Yahweh.
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5The pride of Israel testifies to his face.
- Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity.
- Judah also will stumble with them.
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6They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh;
- but they won’t find him.
- He has withdrawn himself from them.
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7They are unfaithful to Yahweh;
- for they have borne illegitimate children.
- Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.
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8“Blow the cornet in Gibeah,
- and the trumpet in Ramah!
- Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin!
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9Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke.
- Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.
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10The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark.
- I will pour out my wrath on them like water.
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11Ephraim is oppressed,
- he is crushed in judgment;
- Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.
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12Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth,
- and to the house of Judah like rottenness.
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13“When Ephraim saw his sickness,
- and Judah his wound,
- Then Ephraim went to Assyria,
- and sent to king Jareb:
- but he is not able to heal you,
- neither will he cure you of your wound.
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14For I will be to Ephraim like a lion,
- and like a young lion to the house of Judah.
- I myself will tear in pieces and go away.
- I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.
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15I will go and return to my place,
- until they acknowledge their offense,
- and seek my face.
- In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”
