Hoshea (Hos) 5
5
1“Hear this, cohanim!
Pay attention, house of Isra’el!
Listen, house of the king!
For judgment is coming to you.
You have become a snare for Mitzpah
and a net spread on Tavor.
2The rebels have deepened their slaughter,
and I am rejected by all of them.
3“I know Efrayim;
Isra’el is not hidden from me;
for now, Efrayim, you are a whore;
Isra’el is defiled.”
4Their deeds will not allow them
to return to their God,
for the spirit of whoring is in them,
and they don’t know Adonai.
5Isra’el’s arrogance will testify in his face;
Isra’el and Efrayim will stumble in their crimes;
Y’hudah too will stumble with them.
6With their flocks and herds
they will go in search of Adonai.
But they won’t find him;
he has withdrawn from them.
7They have betrayed Adonai,
by fathering foreign children.
Now within the month the invaders
will devour their lands.
8“Blow the shofar in Giv‘ah,
a trumpet at Ramah;
sound an alarm at Beit-Aven:
‘Behind you, Binyamin!’
9Efrayim will be laid waste
when the day for punishment comes;
I am announcing to the tribes of Isra’el
what will surely happen.
10The leaders of Y’hudah are like men
who move boundary stones;
I will pour my fury out
upon them like water.
11Efrayim is oppressed, crushed by the judgment,
because he deliberately sought out futility.
12Therefore I am like a moth to Efrayim
and like rottenness to the house of Y’hudah.
13When Efrayim saw his sickness
and Y’hudah his wound,
Efrayim went to Ashur
and sent envoys to a warring king;
but he can’t heal you
or cure your wound.
14For to Efrayim I will be like a lion,
and like a young lion to the house of Y’hudah —
I will tear them up and go away;
I will carry them off, and no one will rescue.
15I will go and return to my place,
till they admit their guilt and search for me,
seeking me eagerly in their distress.”
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