Hosea 5:1-8

New International Version

Judgment Against Israel

5 “Hear this, you priests!
    Pay attention, you Israelites!
Listen, royal house!
    This judgment^(A) is against you:
You have been a snare^(B) at Mizpah,
    a net^(C) spread out on Tabor.
²The rebels are knee-deep in slaughter.^(D)
    I will discipline all of them.^(E)
³I know all about Ephraim;
    Israel is not hidden^(F) from me.
Ephraim, you have now turned to prostitution;
    Israel is corrupt.^(G)

⁴“Their deeds do not permit them
    to return^(H) to their God.
A spirit of prostitution^(I) is in their heart;
    they do not acknowledge^(J) the Lord.
⁵Israel’s arrogance testifies^(K) against them;
    the Israelites, even Ephraim, stumble^(L) in their sin;
    Judah also stumbles with them.^(M)
⁶When they go with their flocks and herds
    to seek the Lord,^(N)
they will not find him;
    he has withdrawn^(O) himself from them.
⁷They are unfaithful^(P) to the Lord;
    they give birth to illegitimate^(Q) children.
When they celebrate their New Moon feasts,^(R)
    he will devour^[a]^(S) their fields.

⁸“Sound the trumpet^(T) in Gibeah,^(U)
the horn in Ramah.^(V)
Raise the battle cry in Beth Aven^[b];^(W)
lead on, Benjamin.

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Footnotes

Hosea 5:7 Or Now their New Moon feasts / will devour them and
Hosea 5:8 Beth Aven means house of wickedness (a derogatory name for Bethel, which means house of God).

Hosea 6:6-11

New International Version

⁶For I desire mercy, not sacrifice,^(A)
    and acknowledgment^(B) of God rather than burnt offerings.^(C)
⁷As at Adam,^[a] they have broken the covenant;^(D)
    they were unfaithful^(E) to me there.
⁸Gilead is a city of evildoers,^(F)
    stained with footprints of blood.
⁹As marauders lie in ambush for a victim,^(G)
    so do bands of priests;
they murder^(H) on the road to Shechem,
    carrying out their wicked schemes.^(I)
¹⁰I have seen a horrible^(J) thing in Israel:
    There Ephraim is given to prostitution,
    Israel is defiled.^(K)