Hosea 5:1-7

New American Standard Bible 1995

5 Hear 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.
² The ^(B)revolters have ^[a](C)gone deep in depravity,
But I will chastise all of them.
³ I ^(D)know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me;
For now, O Ephraim, you have played the harlot,
Israel has defiled itself.
⁴ Their 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.
⁵ Moreover, the ^(G)pride of Israel testifies against him,
And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity;
^(H)Judah also has stumbled with them.
⁶ They 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He has ^(K)withdrawn from them.
⁷ They have ^(L)dealt treacherously against the Lord,
For they have borne ^[b](M)illegitimate children.
Now the ^(N)new moon will devour them with their ^[c]land.