Noyes - Hosea - 5

5:1  Hear ye this, O ye priests, And hearken, O house of Israel, And give ear, O house of the king! For judgment is coming upon you, Because ye have been a snare at Mizpah, And an outspread net upon Tabor.

5:2  By their sacrifices they commit deep transgression, And I will bring chastisement upon them all.

5:3  I know Ephraim, And Israel is not hidden from me; For thou committest fornication, O Ephraim, And Israel is defiled.

5:4  They will not frame their doings To return to their God; For a spirit of fornication is within them, And they have no regard to Jehovah.

5:5  The pride of Israel testifieth to his face; Therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.

5:6  With their flocks and with their herds shall they go to seek Jehovah, And shall not find him; He hath withdrawn himself from them.

5:7  They have been false to Jehovah, For they have begotten strange children; Now shall the new moon consume them with their possessions.

5:8  Blow ye the trumpet in Gibeah, And the cornet in Ramah; Cry aloud at Bethaven! Look behind thee, O Benjamin!

5:9  Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke; Among the tribes of Israel do I make known what is sure.

5:10  The princes of Judah are like them that remove the land mark; I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

5:11  Ephraim is oppressed; he is crushed with punishment, Because he willingly walked after the decree.

5:12  I am as a moth to Ephraim, And as rottenness to the house of Judah.

5:13  When Ephraim saw his sickness, And Judah his wound, Then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, And Judah sent to the hostile king; But he will not be able to heal you, Nor will he cure you of your wound.

5:14  For I will be as a lion to Ephraim, And as a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear, and will depart; I will take away, and none shall rescue.

5:15  I will go back to my place, Till they have suffered for their sin, and seek my face! In their affliction they will seek me early.