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Hosea 5

Judgment Against Israel

 ² The rebels are deep in slaughter.
       I will discipline all of them.

 ³ I know all about Ephraim;
       Israel is not hidden from me.
       Ephraim, you have now turned to prostitution;
       Israel is corrupt.

 ⁴ "Their deeds do not permit them
       to return to their God.
       A spirit of prostitution is in their heart;
       they do not acknowledge the LORD.

 ⁵ Israel's arrogance testifies against them;
       the Israelites, even Ephraim, stumble in their sin;
       Judah also stumbles with them.

 ⁶ When they go with their flocks and herds
       to seek the LORD,
       they will not find him;
       he has withdrawn himself from them.

 ⁷ They are unfaithful to the LORD;
       they give birth to illegitimate children.
       Now their New Moon festivals
       will devour them and their fields.

 ⁸ "Sound the trumpet in Gibeah,
       the horn in Ramah.
       Raise the battle cry in Beth Aven ^[a] ;
       lead on, O Benjamin.

 ⁹ Ephraim will be laid waste
       on the day of reckoning.
       Among the tribes of Israel
       I proclaim what is certain.

 ¹⁰ Judah's leaders are like those
       who move boundary stones.
       I will pour out my wrath on them
       like a flood of water.

 ¹¹ Ephraim is oppressed,
       trampled in judgment,
       intent on pursuing idols. ^[b]

 ¹² I am like a moth to Ephraim,
       like rot to the people of Judah.

 ¹³ "When Ephraim saw his sickness,
       and Judah his sores,
       then Ephraim turned to Assyria,
       and sent to the great king for help.
       But he is not able to cure you,
       not able to heal your sores.

 ¹⁴ For I will be like a lion to Ephraim,
       like a great lion to Judah.
       I will tear them to pieces and go away;
       I will carry them off, with no one to rescue them.

 ¹⁵ Then I will go back to my place
       until they admit their guilt.
       And they will seek my face;
       in their misery they will earnestly seek me."

Hosea 6

Israel Unrepentant

 ² After two days he will revive us;
       on the third day he will restore us,
       that we may live in his presence.

 ³ Let us acknowledge the LORD;
       let us press on to acknowledge him.
       As surely as the sun rises,
       he will appear;
       he will come to us like the winter rains,
       like the spring rains that water the earth."

 ⁴ "What can I do with you, Ephraim?
       What can I do with you, Judah?
       Your love is like the morning mist,
       like the early dew that disappears.

 ⁵ Therefore I cut you in pieces with my prophets,
       I killed you with the words of my mouth;
       my judgments flashed like lightning upon you.

 ⁶ For I desire mercy, not sacrifice,
       and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.

 ⁷ Like Adam, ^[c] they have broken the covenant—
       they were unfaithful to me there.

 ⁸ Gilead is a city of wicked men,
       stained with footprints of blood.

 ⁹ As marauders lie in ambush for a man,
       so do bands of priests;
       they murder on the road to Shechem,
       committing shameful crimes.

 ¹⁰ I have seen a horrible thing
       in the house of Israel.
       There Ephraim is given to prostitution
       and Israel is defiled.

 ¹¹ "Also for you, Judah,
       a harvest is appointed.
       "Whenever I would restore the fortunes of my people,

Hosea 7

 ¹ whenever I would heal Israel,
       the sins of Ephraim are exposed
       and the crimes of Samaria revealed.
       They practice deceit,
       thieves break into houses,
       bandits rob in the streets;

 ² but they do not realize
       that I remember all their evil deeds.
       Their sins engulf them;
       they are always before me.

 ³ "They delight the king with their wickedness,
       the princes with their lies.

 ⁴ They are all adulterers,
       burning like an oven
       whose fire the baker need not stir
       from the kneading of the dough till it rises.

 ⁵ On the day of the festival of our king
       the princes become inflamed with wine,
       and he joins hands with the mockers.

 ⁶ Their hearts are like an oven;
       they approach him with intrigue.
       Their passion smolders all night;
       in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

 ⁷ All of them are hot as an oven;
       they devour their rulers.
       All their kings fall,
       and none of them calls on me.

 ⁸ "Ephraim mixes with the nations;
       Ephraim is a flat cake not turned over.

 ⁹ Foreigners sap his strength,
       but he does not realize it.
       His hair is sprinkled with gray,
       but he does not notice.

 ¹⁰ Israel's arrogance testifies against him,
       but despite all this
       he does not return to the LORD his God
       or search for him.

 ¹¹ "Ephraim is like a dove,
       easily deceived and senseless—
       now calling to Egypt,
       now turning to Assyria.

 ¹² When they go, I will throw my net over them;
       I will pull them down like birds of the air.
       When I hear them flocking together,
       I will catch them.

 ¹³ Woe to them,
       because they have strayed from me!
       Destruction to them,
       because they have rebelled against me!
       I long to redeem them
       but they speak lies against me.

 ¹⁴ They do not cry out to me from their hearts
       but wail upon their beds.
       They gather together ^[d] for grain and new wine
       but turn away from me.

 ¹⁵ I trained them and strengthened them,
       but they plot evil against me.

 ¹⁶ They do not turn to the Most High;
       they are like a faulty bow.
       Their leaders will fall by the sword
       because of their insolent words.
       For this they will be ridiculed
       in the land of Egypt.

Hosea 8

Israel to Reap the Whirlwind

 ² Israel cries out to me,
       'O our God, we acknowledge you!'

 ³ But Israel has rejected what is good;
       an enemy will pursue him.

 ⁴ They set up kings without my consent;
       they choose princes without my approval.
       With their silver and gold
       they make idols for themselves
       to their own destruction.

 ⁵ Throw out your calf-idol, O Samaria!
       My anger burns against them.
       How long will they be incapable of purity?

 ⁶ They are from Israel!
       This calf—a craftsman has made it;
       it is not God.
       It will be broken in pieces,
       that calf of Samaria.

 ⁷ "They sow the wind
       and reap the whirlwind.
       The stalk has no head;
       it will produce no flour.
       Were it to yield grain,
       foreigners would swallow it up.

 ⁸ Israel is swallowed up;
       now she is among the nations
       like a worthless thing.

 ⁹ For they have gone up to Assyria
       like a wild donkey wandering alone.
       Ephraim has sold herself to lovers.

 ¹⁰ Although they have sold themselves among the nations,
       I will now gather them together.
       They will begin to waste away
       under the oppression of the mighty king.

 ¹¹ "Though Ephraim built many altars for sin offerings,
       these have become altars for sinning.

 ¹² I wrote for them the many things of my law,
       but they regarded them as something alien.

 ¹³ They offer sacrifices given to me
       and they eat the meat,
       but the LORD is not pleased with them.
       Now he will remember their wickedness
       and punish their sins:
       They will return to Egypt.

 ¹⁴ Israel has forgotten his Maker
       and built palaces;
       Judah has fortified many towns.
       But I will send fire upon their cities
       that will consume their fortresses."

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