Hosea 5

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^3 (G)I know Ephraim,
    and Israel is not hidden from me;
for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore;
    Israel is defiled.
^4 (H)Their deeds do not permit them
    to return to their God.
For ^(I)the spirit of whoredom is within them,
    and they know not the Lord.

^5 (J)The pride of Israel testifies to his face;^[a]
    Israel and ^(K)Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt;
    ^(L)Judah also shall stumble with them.
^6 (M)With their flocks and herds they shall go
    to seek the Lord,
^(N)but they will not find him;
    ^(O)he has withdrawn from them.
^7 (P)They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord;
    for they have borne alien children.
    Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.

^8 (Q)Blow the horn in ^(R)Gibeah,
    the trumpet in ^(S)Ramah.
Sound the alarm at ^(T)Beth-aven;
    we follow you,^[b] 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 ^(U)those who move the landmark;
upon them I will pour out
    my wrath like water.
¹¹ Ephraim is ^(V)oppressed, crushed in judgment,
    because he was determined to go after filth.^[c]
12 But I am ^(W)like a moth to Ephraim,
    and ^(X)like dry rot to the house of Judah.

¹³ When Ephraim saw his sickness,
    and Judah ^(Y)his wound,
then Ephraim went ^(Z)to Assyria,
    and sent to the great king.^[d]
(AA)But he is not able to cure you
    or heal ^(AB)your wound.
¹⁴ For I will be ^(AC)like a lion to ^(AD)Ephraim,
    and like a young lion to the house of ^(AE)Judah.
^(AF)I, even I, will tear and go away;
    I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.

^15 (AG)I will return again to my place,
    until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,
    and ^(AH)in their distress earnestly seek me.