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Hosea 5

The People's Apostasy Rebuked

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Hear this, O priests! Give heed, O house of Israel! Listen, O house of the king! For the judgment applies to you, For you have been a  asnare at Mizpah And a net spread out on Tabor.

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The  arevolters have  1 bgone deep in depravity, But I will chastise all of them.

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I  aknow Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me; For now, O Ephraim, you have played the harlot, Israel has defiled itself.

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Their deeds will not allow them To return to their God. For a  aspirit of harlotry is within them, And they  bdo not know the LORD.

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Moreover, the  apride of Israel testifies against him, And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity;  bJudah also has stumbled with them.

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They will  ago with their flocks and herds To seek the LORD, but they will  bnot find Him; He has  cwithdrawn from them.

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They have  adealt treacherously against the LORD, For they have borne  1 billegitimate children. Now the  cnew moon will devour them with their  2land.

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 aBlow the horn in  bGibeah, The trumpet in Ramah. Sound an alarm at Beth-aven: " cBehind you, Benjamin!"

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Ephraim will become a  adesolation in the  bday of rebuke; Among the tribes of Israel I  cdeclare what is sure.

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The princes of Judah have become like those who  amove a boundary; On them I will  bpour out My wrath  clike water.

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Ephraim is  aoppressed, crushed in judgment,  bBecause he was determined to  1follow man's command.

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Therefore I am like a  amoth to Ephraim And like rottenness to the house of Judah.

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When Ephraim saw his sickness, And Judah his  1wound, Then Ephraim went to  aAssyria And sent to  2 bKing Jareb. But he is  cunable to heal you, Or to cure you of your  1wound.

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For I will be  alike a lion to Ephraim And like a young lion to the house of Judah.  bI, even I, will tear to pieces and go away, I will carry away, and there will be  cnone to deliver.

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I will go away and return to My place Until they  1 aacknowledge their guilt and seek My face; In their affliction they will earnestly  bseek Me.



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