Hosea 5:1-8

English Standard Version

Punishment Coming for Israel and Judah

5 ^(A)Hear this, O priests!
    Pay attention, O house of Israel!
Give ear, O house of the king!
    For the judgment is for you;
for ^(B)you have been a snare at Mizpah
    and a net spread upon ^(C)Tabor.
²And ^(D)the revolters ^(E)have gone deep into slaughter,
    but ^(F)I will discipline all of them.

³^(G)I know Ephraim,
    and Israel is not hidden from me;
for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore;
    Israel is defiled.
⁴^(H)Their deeds do not permit them
    to return to their God.
For ^(I)the spirit of whoredom is within them,
    and they know not the Lord.

⁵^(J)The pride of Israel testifies to his face;^[a]
    Israel and ^(K)Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt;
    ^(L)Judah also shall stumble with them.
⁶^(M)With their flocks and herds they shall go
    to seek the Lord,
^(N)but they will not find him;
    ^(O)he has withdrawn from them.
⁷^(P)They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord;
    for they have borne alien children.
    Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.

⁸^(Q)Blow the horn in ^(R)Gibeah,
the trumpet in ^(S)Ramah.
Sound the alarm at ^(T)Beth-aven;
we follow you,^[b] O Benjamin!

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Footnotes

Hosea 5:5 Or in his presence
Hosea 5:8 Or after you

Hosea 6:6-11

English Standard Version

⁶For ^(A)I desire steadfast love^[a] and not sacrifice,
^(B)the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

⁷But ^(C)like Adam they ^(D)transgressed the covenant;
    ^(E)there they dealt faithlessly with me.
⁸^(F)Gilead is a city of evildoers,
    ^(G)tracked with blood.
⁹As robbers ^(H)lie in wait for a man,
    so the priests band together;
they murder on the way to ^(I)Shechem;
    they commit villainy.
¹⁰In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
    ^(J)Ephraim's whoredom is there; ^(K)Israel is defiled.