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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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/hosea/5.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Punishment Coming for Israel and Judah</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Hear this, O priests!</span><br /><span class="indent">Pay attention, O house of Israel!</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Give ear, O house of the king!</span><br /><span class="indent">For the judgment is for you;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for you have been a snare at Mizpah</span><br /><span class="indent">and a net spread upon Tabor.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And the revolters have gone deep into slaughter,</span><br /><span class="indent">but I will discipline all of them.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I know Ephraim,</span><br /><span class="indent">and Israel is not hidden from me;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore;</span><br /><span class="indent">Israel is defiled.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Their deeds do not permit them</span><br /><span class="indent">to return to their God.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">For the spirit of whoredom is within them,</span><br /><span class="indent">and they know not the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The pride of Israel testifies to his face;<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or in his presence">a</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt;</span><br /><span class="indent">Judah also shall stumble with them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">With their flocks and herds they shall go</span><br /><span class="indent">to seek the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">but they will not find him;</span><br /><span class="indent">he has withdrawn from them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They have dealt faithlessly with the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="indent">for they have borne alien children.</span><br /><span class="indent">Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Blow the horn in Gibeah,</span><br /><span class="indent">the trumpet in Ramah.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Sound the alarm at Beth-aven;</span><br /><span class="indent">we follow you,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or after you">b</a></sup></span> O Benjamin!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Ephraim shall become a desolation</span><br /><span class="indent">in the day of punishment;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">among the tribes of Israel</span><br /><span class="indent">I make known what is sure.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The princes of Judah have become</span><br /><span class="indent">like those who move the landmark;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">upon them I will pour out</span><br /><span class="indent">my wrath like water.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment,</span><br /><span class="indent">because he was determined to go after filth.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or to follow human precepts">c</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But I am like a moth to Ephraim,</span><br /><span class="indent">and like dry rot to the house of Judah.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">When Ephraim saw his sickness,</span><br /><span class="indent">and Judah his wound,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">then Ephraim went to Assyria,</span><br /><span class="indent">and sent to the great king.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or to King Jareb">d</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="ln-group">But he is not able to cure you</span><br /><span class="indent">or heal your wound.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For I will be like a lion to Ephraim,</span><br /><span class="indent">and like a young lion to the house of Judah.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I, even I, will tear and go away;</span><br /><span class="indent">I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will return again to my place,</span><br /><span class="indent">until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,</span><br /><span class="indent">and in their distress earnestly seek me.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> Or <i>in his presence</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> Or <i>after you</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">to</span> follow human precepts</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">to</span> King Jareb</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® 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