The People’s Apostasy Rebuked
5 Hear this, O priests!
Give heed, O house of Israel!
Listen, O house of the king!
For the judgment applies to you,
For you have been a (A)snare at Mizpah
And a net spread out on Tabor.
2 The (B)revolters have [a](C)gone deep in depravity,
But I will chastise all of them.
3 I (D)know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me;
For now, O Ephraim, you have played the harlot,
Israel has defiled itself.
4 Their deeds will not allow them
To return to their God.
For a (E)spirit of harlotry is within them,
And they (F)do not know the Lord.
5 Moreover, the (G)pride of Israel testifies against him,
And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity;
(H)Judah also has stumbled with them.
6 They will (I)go with their flocks and herds
To seek the Lord, but they will (J)not find Him;
He has (K)withdrawn from them.
7 They have (L)dealt treacherously against the Lord,
For they have borne [b](M)illegitimate children.
Now the (N)new moon will devour them with their [c]land.
8 (O)Blow the horn in (P)Gibeah,
The trumpet in Ramah.
Sound an alarm at Beth-aven:
“(Q)Behind you, Benjamin!”
9 Ephraim will become a (R)desolation in the (S)day of rebuke;
Among the tribes of Israel I (T)declare what is sure.
10 The princes of Judah have become like those who (U)move a boundary;
On them I will (V)pour out My wrath (W)like water.
11 Ephraim is (X)oppressed, crushed in judgment,
(Y)Because he was determined to [d]follow man’s command.
12 Therefore I am like a (Z)moth to Ephraim
And like rottenness to the house of Judah.
13 When Ephraim saw his sickness,
And Judah his [e]wound,
Then Ephraim went to (AA)Assyria
And sent to [f](AB)King Jareb.
But he is (AC)unable to heal you,
Or to cure you of your [g]wound.
14 For I will be (AD)like a lion to Ephraim
And like a young lion to the house of Judah.
(AE)I, even I, will tear to pieces and go away,
I will carry away, and there will be (AF)none to deliver.
15 I will go away and return to My place
Until they [h](AG)acknowledge their guilt and seek My face;
In their affliction they will earnestly (AH)seek Me.
Footnotes
- Hosea 5:2 Or waded deep in slaughter
- Hosea 5:7 Lit strange
- Hosea 5:7 Lit portions
- Hosea 5:11 Or with some ancient versions, follow nothingness
- Hosea 5:13 Or ulcer
- Hosea 5:13 Or the avenging king or the great king
- Hosea 5:13 Or ulcer
- Hosea 5:15 Or bear their punishment
Cross references
- Hosea 5:1 : Hos 9:8
- Hosea 5:2 : Hos 9:15
- Hosea 5:2 : Is 29:15; Hos 4:2; 6:9
- Hosea 5:3 : Amos 3:2; 5:12
- Hosea 5:4 : Hos 4:12
- Hosea 5:4 : Hos 4:6, 14
- Hosea 5:5 : Hos 7:10
- Hosea 5:5 : Ezek 23:31-35
- Hosea 5:6 : Hos 8:13; Mic 6:6, 7
- Hosea 5:6 : Prov 1:28; Is 1:15; Jer 14:12
- Hosea 5:6 : Ezek 8:6
- Hosea 5:7 : Is 48:8; Jer 3:20; Hos 6:7
- Hosea 5:7 : Hos 2:4
- Hosea 5:7 : Is 1:14; Hos 2:11
- Hosea 5:8 : Joel 2:1
- Hosea 5:8 : Hos 9:9; 10:9
- Hosea 5:8 : Judg 5:14
- Hosea 5:9 : Is 28:1-4; Hos 9:11-17
- Hosea 5:9 : Is 37:3
- Hosea 5:9 : Is 46:10; Zech 1:6
- Hosea 5:10 : Deut 19:14; 27:17
- Hosea 5:10 : Ezek 7:8
- Hosea 5:10 : Ps 32:6; 93:3, 4
- Hosea 5:11 : Deut 28:33
- Hosea 5:11 : Mic 6:16
- Hosea 5:12 : Ps 39:11; Is 51:8
- Hosea 5:13 : Hos 7:11; 8:9; 12:1
- Hosea 5:13 : Hos 10:6
- Hosea 5:13 : Jer 30:12-15
- Hosea 5:14 : Ps 7:2; Hos 13:7, 8; Amos 3:4
- Hosea 5:14 : Ps 50:22
- Hosea 5:14 : Mic 5:8
- Hosea 5:15 : Is 64:7-9; Jer 3:13, 14
- Hosea 5:15 : Ps 50:15; 78:34; Jer 2:27; Hos 3:5