Hos 5 | ESV | STEP | Hear this, O priests ! Pay attention , O house of Israel ! Give ear , O house of the king ! For the judgment is for you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor .

Hosea 5

Punishment Coming for Israel and Judah

1 ^aHear this, O priests!
Pay attention, O house of Israel!
Give ear, O house of the king!
For the judgment is for you;
for ^byou have been a snare at Mizpah
and a net spread upon ^cTabor.
2 And ^dthe revolters ^ehave gone deep into slaughter,
but ^fI will discipline all of them.
3 ^gI know Ephraim,
and Israel is not hidden from me;
for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore;
Israel is defiled.
4 ^hTheir deeds do not permit them
to return to their God.
For ⁱthe spirit of whoredom is within them,
and they know not the Lord.
5 ^jThe pride of Israel testifies to his face; ^{▼▼Or in his presence}
Israel and ^lEphraim shall stumble in his guilt;
^mJudah also shall stumble with them.
6 ⁿWith their flocks and herds they shall go
to seek the Lord,
^obut they will not find him;
^phe has withdrawn from them.
7 ^qThey have dealt faithlessly with the Lord;
for they have borne alien children.
Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.
8 ^rBlow the horn in ^sGibeah,
the trumpet in ^tRamah.
Sound the alarm at ^uBeth-aven;
we follow you, ^{▼▼Or after you} O Benjamin!
9 Ephraim shall become a desolation
in the day of punishment;
among the tribes of Israel
I make known what is sure.
10 The princes of Judah have become
like ^wthose who move the landmark;
upon them I will pour out
my wrath like water.
11 Ephraim is ^xoppressed, crushed in judgment,
because he was determined to go after filth. ^{▼▼Or to follow human precepts}
12 But I am ^zlike a moth to Ephraim,
and ^aalike dry rot to the house of Judah.
13 When Ephraim saw his sickness,
and Judah ^abhis wound,
then Ephraim went ^acto Assyria,
and sent to the great king. ^{▼▼Or to King Jareb}
^aeBut he is not able to cure you
or heal ^afyour wound.
14 For I will be ^aglike a lion to ^ahEphraim,
and like a young lion to the house of ^aiJudah.
^ajI, even I, will tear and go away;
I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.
15 ^akI will return again to my place,
until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,
and ^alin their distress earnestly seek me.