Hos 5:3-4 | 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 5:3-4

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.