Hos 5:3-14, 11:3-12 | ESV | STEP | I know Ephraim , and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, O Ephraim , you have played the whore ; Israel is defiled .

Hosea 5:3-14

3 ^aI know Ephraim,
and Israel is not hidden from me;
for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore;
Israel is defiled.
4 ^bTheir deeds do not permit them
to return to their God.
For ^cthe spirit of whoredom is within them,
and they know not the Lord.
5 ^dThe pride of Israel testifies to his face; ^{▼▼Or in his presence}
Israel and ^fEphraim shall stumble in his guilt;
^gJudah also shall stumble with them.
6 ^hWith their flocks and herds they shall go
to seek the Lord,
ⁱbut they will not find him;
^jhe has withdrawn from them.
7 ^kThey have dealt faithlessly with the Lord;
for they have borne alien children.
Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.
8 ^lBlow the horn in ^mGibeah,
the trumpet in ⁿRamah.
Sound the alarm at ^oBeth-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 ^qthose who move the landmark;
upon them I will pour out
my wrath like water.
11 Ephraim is ^roppressed, crushed in judgment,
because he was determined to go after filth. ^{▼▼Or to follow human precepts}
12 But I am ^tlike a moth to Ephraim,
and ^ulike dry rot to the house of Judah.
13 When Ephraim saw his sickness,
and Judah ^vhis wound,
then Ephraim went ^wto Assyria,
and sent to the great king. ^{▼▼Or to King Jareb}
^yBut he is not able to cure you
or heal ^zyour wound.
14 For I will be ^aalike a lion to ^abEphraim,
and like a young lion to the house of ^acJudah.
^adI, even I, will tear and go away;
I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.

Hosea 11:3-12

3 Yet it was ^aeI who taught Ephraim to walk;
I took them up by their arms,
but they did not know that ^afI healed them.
4 ^agI led them with cords of kindness, ^{▼▼Or humaneness; Hebrew man}
with the bands of love,
and ^aiI became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws,
and ^ajI bent down to them and fed them.
5 ^akThey shall not ^{▼▼Or surely} return to the land of Egypt,
but ^amAssyria shall be their king,
^anbecause ^aothey have refused to return to me.
6 ^apThe sword shall rage against their cities,
consume the bars of their gates,
and devour them ^aqbecause of their own counsels.
7 My people are bent ^aron turning away from me,
and though ^asthey call out to the Most High,
he shall not raise them up at all.
8 How can I give you up, O Ephraim?
How can I hand you over, O Israel?
^atHow can I make you ^aulike Admah?
How can I treat you ^avlike Zeboiim?
^awMy heart recoils within me;
my compassion grows warm and tender.
9 I will not execute my burning anger;
I will not again destroy Ephraim;
^axfor I am God and not a man,
^aythe Holy One in your midst,
and I will not come in wrath. ^{▼▼Or into the city}
10 ^baThey shall go after the Lord;
^bbhe will roar like a lion;
when he roars,
his children shall come trembling ^bcfrom the west;
11 they shall come trembling like birds ^bdfrom Egypt,
and ^belike doves ^bffrom the land of Assyria,
and I will return them to their homes, declares the Lord.
12 ^{▼▼Ch 12:1 in Hebrew} Ephraim ^bhhas surrounded me with lies,
and the house of Israel with deceit,
but Judah still walks with God
and is faithful to the Holy One.