Hos 5 | ASV | e4.org | Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, O house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king; for unto you pertaineth the judgment; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

‏ Hosea 5

1 Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, O house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king; for ^▼▼1 unto you pertaineth the judgment; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. ^{▼▼1) Or against you is the judgment} 2 And the revolters are gone deep ^▼▼1 in making slaughter; but I am a ^▼▼2 rebuker of them all. ^{▼▼1) Or in corruption 2) Heb rebuke} 3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, O Ephraim, thou hast played the harlot, Israel is defiled. 4 ^▼▼1 Their doings will not suffer them to turn unto their God; for the spirit of whoredom is ^▼▼2 within them, and they know not Jehovah. ^{▼▼1) Or They will not frame their doings 2) Or in the midst of} 5 And the ^▼▼1 pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity; Judah also shall stumble with them. ^{▼▼1) Or excellency} 6 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah; but they shall not find him: he hath withdrawn himself from them. 7 They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah; for they have ^▼▼1 borne strange children: now shall ^▼▼2 the new moon devour them with their ^▼▼3 fields. ^{▼▼1) Or begotten 2) Or a month 3) Heb portions}

8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: sound an alarm at Beth-aven; ^▼▼1 behind thee, O Benjamin. ^{▼▼1) Or After thee, Benjamin!} 9 Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be. 10 The princes of Judah are like them that remove the landmark: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. 11 Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; because he was content to walk after man’s command. 12 ^▼▼1 Therefore am I unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. ^{▼▼1) Or And I was} 13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to Assyria, and sent to ^▼▼1 king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound. ^{▼▼1) Or a king that should contend} 14 For 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 carry off, and there shall be none to deliver. 15 I will go and return to my place, till they ^▼▼1 acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me ^▼▼2 earnestly. ^{▼▼1) Or have borne their guilt 2) Or earnestly, saying}