NHEBME - Hosea - 5

5:1  "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.

5:2  The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I discipline all of them.

5:3  I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.

5:4  Their deeds won't allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the Lord.

5:5  The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them.

5:6  They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the Lord; but they won't find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.

5:7  They are unfaithful to the Lord; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.

5:8  "Blow the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah! Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin!

5:9  Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.

5:10  The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.

5:11  Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.

5:12  Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.

5:13  "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.

5:14  For 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.

5:15  I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly."