Hosea 5:1-5

Lexham English Bible

5 Hear this, O priests!
Give heed, O house of Israel!
Listen, O house of the king!
    Because the judgment applies to you;
because you have been a snare for Mizpah,
    and a net spread out on Tabor;
² they dug a deep pit^[a] in Shittim,
    but I am a punishment for all of them.
³ I myself know Ephraim,
    and Israel is not hidden from me;
because now you have played the whore, O Ephraim—
    Israel is defiled.
⁴ Their deeds do not permit them
    to return them to God.
Because a spirit of whoredom is in their midst,
    they do not know Yahweh.
⁵ The pride of Israel testifies against him,^[b]
    and Israel and Ephraim stumble in their guilt,
        and Judah stumbles with them.