Hosea 5

¹ Hear this, you priests! And attend, house of Israel! And house of the king, give ear, for, for you is the judgment; for a snare you become to the watch, and a net spread over a quarry, which seizers of prey set up. ² And those who swerve deepen the ruin, yet I am the Discipliner for them all. ³ I know Ephraim, and Israel is not suppressed from Me, for now, Ephraim, you cause prostitution, and Israel is defiled. ⁴ Their actions will not allow them to return to their Elohim, for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and Yahweh they do not know. ⁵ The pomp of Israel answers to his face, and Israel and Ephraim are being stumbled in their depravity; moreover, Judah stumbles with them. ⁶ With their flock and with their herd they shall go to seek Yahweh, and they shall not find Him; He liberates Himself from them. ⁷ They are treacherous against Yahweh, for they generate alien sons. Now the beetle shall devour them with their portions. ⁸ Blow a trumpet in Gibeah! A bugle in Ramah! Shout in Beth-aven: Look behind you, Benjamin! ⁹ Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of correction; among the tribes of Israel I make known what is faithful. ¹⁰ The chiefs of Judah become as the movers of a boundary: I will pour out on them My rage, as water. ¹¹ Ephraim shall be extorted and bruised in judgment, for he is disposed to go after futilities. ¹² And I will be as a moth to Ephraim, and as rottenness to the house of Judah. ¹³ And Ephraim is seeing his illness, and Judah his malady; and Ephraim is going to Assyria, and he is sending messengers to king Jareb, yet he will not be able to heal you, nor will he cure you of your malady; ¹⁴ for I will be as a black lion to Ephraim, and as a sheltered lion to the house of Judah. I, I, will tear to pieces and go and carry off, and there is no rescuing. ¹⁵ For I will go and return to My place till they are pleading guilty, and they seek My face. In their distress they will seek Me early, saying: