Hos 5, Hos 13 | 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^phe has withdrawn from them.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.

Hosea 13

The Lord’s Relentless Judgment on Israel

1 When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling;
^amhe was exalted in Israel,
but he incurred guilt ^anthrough Baal and died.
2 And now they sin more and more,
and ^aomake for themselves metal images,
idols skillfully made of their silver,
^apall of them the work of craftsmen.
It is said of them,
“Those who offer human sacrifice ^aqkiss calves!”
3 Therefore they shall be ^arlike the morning mist
or ^aslike the dew that goes early away,
^atlike the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor
or ^aulike smoke from a window.
4 But ^avI am the Lord your God
from the land of Egypt;
^awyou know no God but me,
and ^axbesides me there is no savior.
5 ^ayIt was I who knew you in the wilderness,
in the land of drought;
6 ^azbut when they had grazed, ^{▼▼Hebrew according to their pasture} they became full,
^bbthey were filled, and their heart was lifted up;
^bctherefore they forgot me.
7 So ^bdI am to them like a lion;
^belike a leopard I will lurk beside the way.
8 I will fall upon them ^bflike a bear robbed of her cubs;
I will tear open their breast,
and there I will devour them like a lion,
^bgas a wild beast would rip them open.
9 He destroys ^{▼▼Or I will destroy} you, O Israel,
for you are against me, against ^biyour helper.
10 ^bjWhere now is your king, to save you in all your cities?
Where are all your rulers—
those of whom ^bkyou said,
“Give me a king and princes”?
11 ^blI gave you a king in my anger,
and ^bmI took him away in my wrath.
12 The iniquity of Ephraim is ^bnbound up;
his sin is ^bokept in store.
13 ^bpThe pangs of childbirth come for him,
but he is an unwise son,
for at the right time he does not present himself
^bqat the opening of the womb.
14 ^brI shall ransom them from the power of Sheol;
^bsI shall redeem them from Death.
^btO ^buDeath, where are your plagues?
^bvO ^bwSheol, where is your sting?
^bxCompassion is hidden from my eyes.
15 Though ^byhe may flourish among his brothers,
^bzthe east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come,
rising from the wilderness,
^caand his fountain shall dry up;
his spring shall be parched;
it shall strip ^cbhis treasury
of every precious thing.
16 ^{▼▼Ch 14:1 in Hebrew} Samaria ^cdshall bear her guilt,
because ^ceshe has rebelled against her God;
they shall fall by the sword;
^cftheir little ones shall be dashed in pieces,
and their ^cgpregnant women ripped open.