Hosea 5
5
The Priests Are a Snare
1Hear this, O priests!
Give heed, O house of Israel!
Listen, O house of the king!
Because the judgment applies to you;
because you have been a snare for Mizpah,
and a net spread out on Tabor;
2they dug a deep pit#Hebrew uncertain in Shittim,
but I am a punishment for all of them.
3I myself know Ephraim,
and Israel is not hidden from me;
because now you have played the whore, O Ephraim—
Israel is defiled.
4Their deeds do not permit them
to return them to God.
Because a spirit of whoredom is in their midst,
they do not know Yahweh.
5The pride of Israel testifies against him,#Literally “against his face;” see 7:10
and Israel and Ephraim stumble in their guilt,
and Judah stumbles with them.
6With their flocks#Hebrew “flock” and herds#Hebrew “herd” they will go
to seek Yahweh, but they will not find him;
he has withdrawn from them.
7They have dealt faithlessly with Yahweh
because they have borne illegitimate children.
Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.
8Blow the horn#Hebrew “shofar” in Gibeah,
the trumpet in Ramah.
Sound the alarm in Beth-aven;
look behind you, Benjamin.
9Ephraim will be a desolation
in the day of punishment;
among the tribes of Israel
I will reveal what is true.
10The princes of Judah have become
like those who remove a landmark;
on them I will pour out
my wrath like water.
11Ephraim is oppressed,
crushed in judgment,
because he was determined
to go after filth.#Hebrew uncertain; another possible translation is “that he follows human commands”
12But I am like a maggot to Ephraim
and like rottenness to the house of Judah.
13And when Ephraim saw his illness,
and Judah his wound,
Ephraim went to Assyria,
he sent to the great king.#Some translate literally “King Jareb” (see the NASB, NKJV)
But he was unable to cure you
and heal your wound.
14Because I will be like a lion to Ephraim
and like a fierce strong lion to the house of Judah.
I myself will tear and I will go;
I will carry off, and there is no one who delivers.
15I will return again#Literally “I will go, I will return” to my place
until they acknowledge their guilt
and seek my face;
in their distress they will search#Or “they will beg favor of” me.
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