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align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../hosea/4.htm" title="Hosea 4">◄</a> Hosea 5 <a href="../hosea/6.htm" title="Hosea 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Impending Judgment on Israel and Judah</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-1"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Hear this, O priests!</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Give heed, O house of Israel!</span></span><br /><span class="text">Listen, O house of the king!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">For the judgment pertains to you;</span></span><br /><span class="text">for you have been a snare at Mizpah,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and a net spread upon Tabor,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>and a pit dug deep in Shittim;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26427a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">but I will punish all of them.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>I know Ephraim,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and Israel is not hidden from me;</span></span><br /><span class="text">for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Israel is defiled.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Their deeds do not permit them</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">to return to their God.</span></span><br /><span class="text">For the spirit of whoredom is within them,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and they do not know the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Israel’s pride testifies against him;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Ephraim<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26430b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> stumbles in his guilt;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Judah also stumbles with them.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>With their flocks and herds they shall go</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">to seek the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>,</span></span><br /><span class="text">but they will not find him;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">he has withdrawn from them.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>They have dealt faithlessly with the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for they have borne illegitimate children.</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Now the new moon shall devour them along with their fields.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Blow the horn in Gibeah,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the trumpet in Ramah.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Sound the alarm at Beth-aven;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">look behind you, Benjamin!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Ephraim shall become a desolation</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">in the day of punishment;</span></span><br /><span class="text">among the tribes of Israel</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I declare what is sure.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>The princes of Judah have become</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">like those who remove the landmark;</span></span><br /><span class="text">on them I will pour out</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">my wrath like water.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">because he was determined to go after vanity.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26436c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Therefore I am like maggots to Ephraim,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and like rottenness to the house of Judah.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>When Ephraim saw his sickness,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and Judah his wound,</span></span><br /><span class="text">then Ephraim went to Assyria,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and sent to the great king.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26438d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span class="text">But he is not able to cure you</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or heal your wound.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>For I will be like a lion to Ephraim,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and like a young lion to the house of Judah.</span></span><br /><span class="text">I myself will tear and go away;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>I will return again to my place</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face.</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">In their distress they will beg my favor:</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 5:2">Hosea 5:2</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 5:5">Hosea 5:5</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>Israel and Ephraim</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 5:11">Hosea 5:11</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 5:13">Hosea 5:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>to a king who will contend</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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