Hosea 5:1–9
1“Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.↗
2The rebels are deep in slaughter, but I discipline all of them.↗
3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.↗
4Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God, for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don’t know the LORD.↗
5The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them.↗
6They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD, but they won’t find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.↗
7They are unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.↗
8“Blow the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah! Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin!↗
9Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.↗
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