Hosea 5 (New American Standard Bible)

Hosea 5

The People's Apostasy Rebuked

    ¹Hear this, O priests!
         Give heed, O house of Israel!
         Listen, O house of the king!
         For the judgment applies to you,
         For you have been a ^(A)snare at Mizpah
         And a net spread out on Tabor.
    ²The ^(B)revolters have ^(C)gone deep in depravity,
         But I will chastise all of them.
    ³I ^(D)know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me;
         For now, O Ephraim, you have played the harlot,
         Israel has defiled itself.
    ⁴Their deeds will not allow them
         To return to their God.
         For a ^(E)spirit of harlotry is within them,
         And they ^(F)do not know the LORD.
    ⁵Moreover, the ^(G)pride of Israel testifies against him,
         And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity;
         ^(H)Judah also has stumbled with them.
    ⁶They will ^(I)go with their flocks and herds
         To seek the LORD, but they will ^(J)not find Him;
         He has ^(K)withdrawn from them.
    ⁷They have ^(L)dealt treacherously against the LORD,
         For they have borne ^(M)illegitimate children
         Now the ^(N)new moon will devour them with their land.
    ^8(O)Blow the horn in ^(P)Gibeah,
         The trumpet in Ramah
         Sound an alarm at Beth-aven:
         "^(Q)Behind you, Benjamin!"
    ⁹Ephraim will become a ^(R)desolation in the ^(S)day of rebuke;
         Among the tribes of Israel I ^(T)declare what is sure.
    ¹⁰The princes of Judah have become like those who ^(U)move a boundary;
         On them I will ^(V)pour out My wrath ^(W)like water.
    ¹¹Ephraim is ^(X)oppressed, crushed in judgment,
         ^(Y)Because he was determined to follow man's command.
    ¹²Therefore I am like a ^(Z)moth to Ephraim
         And like rottenness to the house of Judah.
    ¹³When Ephraim saw his sickness,
         And Judah his wound,
         Then Ephraim went to ^(AA)Assyria
         And sent to ^(AB)King Jareb
         But he is ^(AC)unable to heal you,
         Or to cure you of your wound.
    ¹⁴For I will be ^(AD)like a lion to Ephraim
         And like a young lion to the house of Judah
         ^(AE)I, even I, will tear to pieces and go away,
         I will carry away, and there will be ^(AF)none to deliver.
    ¹⁵I will go away and return to My place
         Until they ^(AG)acknowledge their guilt and seek My face;
         In their affliction they will earnestly ^(AH)seek Me.