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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 Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/hosea/5.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">The Failure of Israel’s Leaders</p><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Hear this, you priests.</p><p class="line2">Pay attention, you leaders of Israel.</p><p class="line1">Listen, you members of the royal family.</p><p class="line2">Judgment has been handed down against you.</p><p class="line1">For you have led the people into a snare</p><p class="line2">by worshiping the idols at Mizpah and Tabor.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>You have dug a deep pit to trap them at Acacia Grove.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a></p><p class="line2">But I will settle with you for what you have done.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I know what you are like, O Ephraim.</p><p class="line2">You cannot hide yourself from me, O Israel.</p><p class="line1">You have left me as a prostitute leaves her husband;</p><p class="line2">you are utterly defiled.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Your deeds won’t let you return to your God.</p><p class="line2">You are a prostitute through and through,</p><p class="line2">and you do not know the LORD.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“The arrogance of Israel testifies against her;</p><p class="line2">Israel and Ephraim will stumble under their load of guilt.</p><p class="line2">Judah, too, will fall with them.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When they come with their flocks and herds</p><p class="line2">to offer sacrifices to the LORD,</p><p class="line1">they will not find him,</p><p class="line2">because he has withdrawn from them.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They have betrayed the honor of the LORD,</p><p class="line2">bearing children that are not his.</p><p class="line1">Now their false religion will devour them</p><p class="line2">along with their wealth.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Sound the alarm in Gibeah!</p><p class="line2">Blow the trumpet in Ramah!</p><p class="line1">Raise the battle cry in Beth-aven<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a>!</p><p class="line2">Lead on into battle, O warriors of Benjamin!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>One thing is certain, Israel<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a>:</p><p class="line2">On your day of punishment,</p><p class="line2">you will become a heap of rubble.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“The leaders of Judah have become like thieves.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a></p><p class="line2">So I will pour my anger on them like a waterfall.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The people of Israel will be crushed and broken by my judgment</p><p class="line2">because they are determined to worship idols.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a></p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I will destroy Israel as a moth consumes wool.</p><p class="line2">I will make Judah as weak as rotten wood.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“When Israel and Judah saw how sick they were,</p><p class="line2">Israel turned to Assyria—</p><p class="line1">to the great king there—</p><p class="line2">but he could neither help nor cure them.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I will be like a lion to Israel,</p><p class="line2">like a strong young lion to Judah.</p><p class="line2">I will tear them to pieces!</p><p class="line1">I will carry them off,</p><p class="line2">and no one will be left to rescue them.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then I will return to my place</p><p class="line2">until they admit their guilt and turn to me.</p><p class="line1">For as soon as trouble comes,</p><p class="line2">they will earnestly search for me.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">5:2 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">at Shittim.</span><span class="ft"> The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">5:7 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">5:8 </span><span class="it">Beth-aven</span><span class="ft"> means “house of wickedness”; it is being used as another name for Bethel, which means “house of God.”</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">5:9 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Ephraim,</span><span class="ft"> referring to the northern kingdom of Israel; also in 5:11, 12, 13, 14.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">5:10 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">like those who move a boundary marker.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">5:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">determined to follow human commands.</span><span class="ft"> The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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