Hosea 5
1(p) HEAR these things, ye priests; and attend, ye house of Israel; and ye household of the king, give ear. For against you is this indictment, because you are become a snare in the watchtower; and like a net spread upon Itaburion,
2which they who hunt wild beasts have fixed up.
3(J) As for Me, I was your instructor. I acknowledged Ephraim, and Israel did not withdraw from Me. Now because Ephraim went a-whoring, Israel is polluted.
4They did not apply their thoughts to return to their God. For there is a spirit of whoredom in them, and they have not acknowledged the Lord.
5Therefore the haughtiness of Israel shall be humbled at His presence, and Israel and Ephraim shall be weakened for their iniquities. When Juda also shall be weakened with them,
6they will go with sheep and young bulls to seek the Lord, but they shall not find Him, because He hath withdrawn from them.
7Because they have forsaken the Lord, because strange children have been born to them, the canker worm shall now devour them and their portions.
8(p) Sound a trumpet on the mountains; raise a shout on the high places; proclaim in the house of On: Benjamin is confounded,
9Ephraim is become a desolation in the day of rebuke. (J) Among the tribes of Israel I have given faithful warnings.
10The chiefs of Juda are become like the removers of boundaries; upon them I will pour out My fury like water.
11Ephraim tyrannised over his adversary, he trampled down judgment. Because he set the example of going after vanities,
12therefore I will be like a terror to Ephraim, and like a goad to the house of Juda.
13When Ephraim saw his disorder and Juda felt his pain, though Ephraim went to the Assyrians, and sent ambassadors to king Iarim; yet he could not heal you, nor could your pain be assuaged;
14for I am like a panther to Ephraim, and like a lion to the house of Juda. When I tear, I will go and take and there shall be no deliverer.
15I will sally forth and return to My place until they are made desolate, then they will seek My face.