Hosea 5:8-15

New American Standard Bible 1995

^8 (A)Blow the horn in ^(B)Gibeah,
The trumpet in Ramah.
Sound an alarm at Beth-aven:
“^(C)Behind you, Benjamin!”
⁹ Ephraim will become a ^(D)desolation in the ^(E)day of rebuke;
Among the tribes of Israel I ^(F)declare what is sure.
¹⁰ The princes of Judah have become like those who ^(G)move a boundary;
On them I will ^(H)pour out My wrath ^(I)like water.
¹¹ Ephraim is ^(J)oppressed, crushed in judgment,
^(K)Because he was determined to ^[a]follow man’s command.
¹² Therefore I am like a ^(L)moth to Ephraim
And like rottenness to the house of Judah.
¹³ When Ephraim saw his sickness,
And Judah his ^[b]wound,
Then Ephraim went to ^(M)Assyria
And sent to ^[c](N)King Jareb.
But he is ^(O)unable to heal you,
Or to cure you of your ^[d]wound.
¹⁴ For I will be ^(P)like a lion to Ephraim
And like a young lion to the house of Judah.
^(Q)I, even I, will tear to pieces and go away,
I will carry away, and there will be ^(R)none to deliver.
¹⁵ I will go away and return to My place
Until they ^[e](S)acknowledge their guilt and seek My face;
In their affliction they will earnestly ^(T)seek Me.