Hosea 5 — Legacy Standard Bible

Yahweh Withdraws from Israel

5Hear this, O priests!Give heed, O house of Israel!Give ear, O house of the king!For the judgment is for you,For you have been a ^asnare at MizpahAnd a net spread out on Tabor.²And the ^arevolters have ^bdug deep into slaughtering,But I will chastise all of them.³I ^aknow Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me;For now, O Ephraim, you have played the harlot;Israel has defiled itself.⁴Their deeds will not allow themTo return to their God.For a ^aspirit of harlotry is within them,And they ^bdo not know Yahweh.⁵Moreover, the ^apride of Israel answers against him,And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity;^bJudah also has stumbled with them.⁶They will ^ago with their flocks and herdsTo seek Yahweh, but they will ^bnot find Him;He has ^cwithdrawn from them.⁷They have ^adealt treacherously against Yahweh,For they have borne ^bchildren of strangers.Now the ^cnew moon will devour them with their portions.⁸^aBlow the horn in ^bGibeah,The trumpet in Ramah.Make a loud shout at Beth-aven:“^cBehind you, Benjamin!”⁹Ephraim will become a ^adesolation in the ^bday of reproof;Among the tribes of Israel I ^cwill make known what is true.¹⁰The princes of Judah have become like those who ^amove a boundary;On them I will ^bpour out My wrath ^clike water.¹¹Ephraim is ^aoppressed, crushed in judgment,^bBecause he was determined to ¹walk after man’s command.¹²Therefore I am like a ^amoth to EphraimAnd like rottenness to the house of Judah.¹³Then Ephraim saw his sickness,And Judah his sore,So Ephraim went to ^aAssyriaAnd sent to ¹^,^bKing Jareb.But he is ^cunable to heal youOr to cure you of your sore.¹⁴For I will be ^alike a lion to EphraimAnd like a young lion to the house of Judah.^bI, even I, will tear to pieces and go away;I will carry away, and there will be ^cnone to deliver.¹⁵I will go away and return to My placeUntil they ¹^,^aacknowledge their guilt and seek My face;In their affliction they will ^bseek Me earnestly.