Hos 1, Hos 5 | ESV | STEP | The word of the Lord that came to Hosea , the son of Beeri , in the days of Uzziah , Jotham , Ahaz , and Hezekiah , kings of Judah , and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash , king of Israel .

1 The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, ^ain the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of ^bJeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

Hosea’s Wife and Children

2 When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, ^c“Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have ^dchildren of whoredom, for ^ethe land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.” 3 So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

4 And the Lord said to him, “Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while ^fI will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and ^gI will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel. 5 And on that day ^hI will break the bow of Israel ⁱin the Valley of Jezreel.”

6 She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, ^j“Call her name No Mercy, ^{▼▼Hebrew Lo-ruhama, which means she has not received mercy} for ^lI will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all. 7 But ^mI will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord their God. I ⁿwill not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen.”

8 When she had weaned No Mercy, she conceived and bore a son. 9 And the Lord said, ^o“Call his name Not My People, ^{▼▼Hebrew Lo-ammi, which means not my people} for ^qyou are not my people, and I am not your God.” ^{▼▼Hebrew I am not yours}

10 ^{▼▼Ch 2:1 in Hebrew} Yet ^tthe number of the children of Israel shall be ^ulike the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. ^vAnd ^win the place where it was said to them, ^x“You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, ^y“Children ^{▼▼Or Sons} of ^aathe living God.” 11 And ^abthe children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and ^acthey shall appoint for themselves one head. And they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

Hosea 5

Punishment Coming for Israel and Judah

1 ^adHear this, O priests!
Pay attention, O house of Israel!
Give ear, O house of the king!
For the judgment is for you;
for ^aeyou have been a snare at Mizpah
and a net spread upon ^afTabor.
2 And ^agthe revolters ^ahhave gone deep into slaughter,
but ^aiI will discipline all of them.
3 ^ajI know Ephraim,
and Israel is not hidden from me;
for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore;
Israel is defiled.
4 ^akTheir deeds do not permit them
to return to their God.
For ^althe spirit of whoredom is within them,
and they know not the Lord.
5 ^amThe pride of Israel testifies to his face; ^{▼▼Or in his presence}
Israel and ^aoEphraim shall stumble in his guilt;
^apJudah also shall stumble with them.
6 ^aqWith their flocks and herds they shall go
to seek the Lord,
^arbut they will not find him;
^ashe has withdrawn from them.
7 ^atThey have dealt faithlessly with the Lord;
for they have borne alien children.
Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.
8 ^auBlow the horn in ^avGibeah,
the trumpet in ^awRamah.
Sound the alarm at ^axBeth-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 ^azthose who move the landmark;
upon them I will pour out
my wrath like water.
11 Ephraim is ^baoppressed, crushed in judgment,
because he was determined to go after filth. ^{▼▼Or to follow human precepts}
12 But I am ^bclike a moth to Ephraim,
and ^bdlike dry rot to the house of Judah.
13 When Ephraim saw his sickness,
and Judah ^behis wound,
then Ephraim went ^bfto Assyria,
and sent to the great king. ^{▼▼Or to King Jareb}
^bhBut he is not able to cure you
or heal ^biyour wound.
14 For I will be ^bjlike a lion to ^bkEphraim,
and like a young lion to the house of ^blJudah.
^bmI, even I, will tear and go away;
I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.
15 ^bnI will return again to my place,
until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,
and ^boin their distress earnestly seek me.