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Pay attention, nation of Israel! Open your ears, royal family! This is my decision about you. You set traps at Mizpah and spread out nets on Mount Tabor.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>You are deeply involved in sin. So I will punish all of you. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I know Ephraim, and Israel isn't a stranger to me. Now, Ephraim, you are acting like a prostitute, and Israel is unclean. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>"The wicked things that the people have done keep them from returning to their God. They have a spirit of prostitution, and they don't know the LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The people of Israel's arrogance testifies against them. Israel and Ephraim stumble because of their sins, and Judah stumbles with them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>They go with their sheep and their cattle to search for the LORD, but they can't find him. He has left them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They have been unfaithful to the LORD, because their children do not belong to him. Now their New Moon [Festivals] will devour them and their fields.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>"Blow the ram's horn in Gibeah. Blow the trumpet in Ramah. Sound the alarm at Beth Aven, you descendants of Benjamin.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Ephraim will become a wasteland when the time for punishment comes. I will make the truth known among the tribes of Israel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The leaders of Judah are like those who move boundary markers. I will pour my fury on them like water.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Ephraim is oppressed-crushed by punishment, because its people are determined to chase idols. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I will destroy Ephraim as a moth destroys clothing. I will destroy the nation of Judah as rot destroys wood.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>"When Ephraim saw that he was sick and when Judah saw his own wounds, Ephraim went to Assyria to ask the great king for help. But the king couldn't cure them or heal their wounds. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I will be like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the nation of Judah. I will carry [them] off, and no one will rescue [them].</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I will go back to my place until they admit that they are guilty. Then they will search for me. In their distress they will eagerly look for me."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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