Hosea 5

Revised Geneva Translation

5 “O you priests, hear this! And listen, O House of Israel! And give ear, O House of the king! For judgment is toward you, because you have been a snare on Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor!

² “And the rebels are deep in the slaughter, though I have been a Rebuker of them all.

³ “I know Ephraim. And Israel is not hidden from Me. For now, O Ephraim, you have become a harlot. Israel is defiled!”

⁴ They will not give their minds to turn to their God. For the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them. And they have not known the LORD.

⁵ And the pride of Israel testifies to His Face. Therefore, Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquity. Judah shall also fall with them.

⁶ They shall go with their sheep, and with their bullocks, to seek the LORD. But they shall not find Him. He has withdrawn Himself from them.

⁷ They have transgressed against the LORD. For they have begotten strange children. Now, a month shall devour them with their portions.

⁸ “Blow the trumpet in Gibeah, the shame in Ramah! Cry out at Beth Aven, ‘Behind you, O Benjamin!’

⁹ “Ephraim shall be desolate on the day of rebuke! I have caused the truth to be known among the tribes of Israel.

¹⁰ “The princes of Judah were like those who remove a boundary. I will pour out My wrath upon them like water.

¹¹ “Ephraim is oppressed, broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after man’s commandment.

¹² “Therefore, I will be to Ephraim as a moth, and to the House of Judah as rottenness.

¹³ “When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to King Jareb. Yet, he could not heal you or cure you of your wound.

¹⁴ “For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a lion’s whelp to the House of Judah. I, even I, will tear and go away. I will take away and no one shall rescue it.

¹⁵ “I will go and return to My place, until they acknowledge their fault and seek Me in their affliction. They will seek me diligently.”