# Hosea 5 [[Hos-04|← Hosea 04]] | [[Hosea]] | [[Hos-06|Hosea 06 →]] *** ###### v1 "Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor. ###### v2 The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I discipline all of them. ###### v3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled. ###### v4 Their deeds won't allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don't know Yahweh. ###### v5 The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them. ###### v6 They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh; but they won't find him. He has withdrawn himself from them. ###### v7 They are unfaithful to Yahweh; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields. ###### v8 "Blow the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah! Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin! ###### v9 Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be. ###### v10 The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water. ###### v11 Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols. ###### v12 Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness. ###### v13 "When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound. ###### v14 For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver. ###### v15 I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly." *** [[Hos-04|← Hosea 04]] | [[Hosea]] | [[Hos-06|Hosea 06 →]]