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Hosea 5

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Hosea 5
Impending Judgment on Israel and Judah
1 # Hos 4.1; 6.9 Hear this, O priests!
Give heed, O house of Israel!
Listen, O house of the king!
For the judgment pertains to you,
for you have been a snare at Mizpah
and a net spread upon Tabor
2and a pit dug deep in Shittim,#5.2 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain
but I will punish all of them.
3 # Hos 6.10; Am 3.2 I know Ephraim,
and Israel is not hidden from me,
for now, O Ephraim, you have prostituted yourself;
Israel is defiled.
4 # Hos 4.11, 12 Their deeds do not permit them
to return to their God.
For the spirit of prostitution is within them,
and they do not know the LORD.
5 # Ezek 23.31–35; Hos 4.5; 7.10 Israel’s pride testifies against him;
Ephraim#5.5 Heb Israel and Ephraim stumbles in his guilt;
Judah also stumbles with them.
6 # Isa 1.15; Ezek 8.6; Mic 6.6, 7 With their flocks and herds they shall go
to seek the LORD,
but they will not find him;
he has withdrawn from them.
7 # Isa 48.8; Hos 2.4, 11, 12; 6.7 They have dealt faithlessly with the LORD,
for they have borne illegitimate children.
Now the new moon shall devour them along with their fields.
8 # Isa 10.29, 30; Hos 4.15; 9.9; 10.9 Blow the horn in Gibeah,
the trumpet in Ramah.
Sound the alarm at Beth-aven;
look behind you, Benjamin!
9 # Isa 37.3; 46.10; Zech 1.6 Ephraim shall become a desolation
in the day of punishment;
among the tribes of Israel
I declare what is sure.
10 # Deut 19.14; Ps 93.3, 4; Ezek 7.8 The princes of Judah have become
like those who remove the landmark;
on them I will pour out
my wrath like water.
11Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment,
because he was determined to go after vanity.#5.11 Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain
12 # Ps 39.11; Prov 12.4 Therefore I am like maggots to Ephraim
and like rottenness to the house of Judah.
13 # Jer 30.12; Hos 7.11; 8.9; 10.6; 14.3 When Ephraim saw his sickness
and Judah his wound,
then Ephraim went to Assyria
and sent to the great king.#5.13 Cn: Heb to a king who will contend
But he is not able to cure you
or heal your wound.
14 # Ps 50.22; Hos 13.7, 8; Mic 5.8 For I will be like a lion to Ephraim
and like a young lion to the house of Judah.
I myself will tear and go away;
I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.
15 # Isa 64.7–9; Jer 2.27; Hos 3.5 I will return again to my place
until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face.
In their distress they will beg my favor:

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