English Bible
Hosea 5
Big screen- 1Hear all of you this, O priests; and hearken, all of you house of Israel; and give all of you ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because all of you have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
- 2And the apostates are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
- 3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, you commit whoredom, and Israel is defiled.
- 4They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.
- 5And the pride of Israel does testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity: Judah also shall fall with them.
- 6They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them.
- 7They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
- 8Blow all of you the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after you, O Benjamin.
- 9Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
- 10The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
- 11Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
- 12Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
- 13When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
- 14For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
- 15I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.