Hosea 5:3-14

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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.

Their deeds will not allow them

To return to their God.

For a ^aspirit of harlotry is within them,

And they ^bdo not know Yahweh.

Moreover, the ^apride of Israel answers against him,

And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity;

^bJudah also has stumbled with them.

They will ^ago with their flocks and herds

To seek Yahweh, but they will ^bnot find Him;

He has ^cwithdrawn from them.

They have ^adealt treacherously against Yahweh,

For they have borne ^bchildren of strangers.

Now the ^cnew moon will devour them with their portions.

^aBlow the horn in ^bGibeah,

The trumpet in Ramah.

Make a loud shout at Beth‑aven:

“^cBehind you, Benjamin!”

Ephraim will become a ^adesolation in the ^bday of reproof;

Among the tribes of Israel I ^cwill make known what is true.

The princes of Judah have become like those who ^amove a boundary;

On them I will ^bpour out My wrath ^clike water.

Ephraim is ^aoppressed, crushed in judgment,

^bBecause he was determined to ¹walk after man’s command.

Therefore I am like a ^amoth to Ephraim

And like rottenness to the house of Judah.

Then Ephraim saw his sickness,

And Judah his sore,

So Ephraim went to ^aAssyria

And sent to ¹^bKing Jareb.

But he is ^cunable to heal you

Or to cure you of your sore.

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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Yet it is I who taught Ephraim to walk;

¹I ^atook them in My arms;

But they did not know that I ^bhealed them.

I ^aled them with cords of a man, with bonds of love,

And ^bI became to them as one who lifts the yoke from their jaws;

And I bent down and ^cfed them.

¹They will not return to the land of Egypt;

But Assyria—he will be ²their king

Because they ^arefused to return to Me.

And the ^asword will whirl against ¹their cities

And will consume ¹their gate bars

And ^bdevour them because of their ^ccounsels.

So My people are hung up on ^aturning from Me.

Though ¹they call ²them to the One on high,

None at all exalts Him.

^aHow can I give you up, O Ephraim?

How can I surrender you, O Israel?

How can I give you over to be like ^bAdmah?

How can I make you like ^bZeboiim?

My heart is turned over within Me;

¹All My compassions are stirred.

I will ^anot execute My burning anger;

I will not make Ephraim a ruin ^bagain.

For ^cI am God and not man, the ^dHoly One in your midst,

And I will not come in ¹wrath.

They will ^awalk after Yahweh;

He will ^broar like a lion;

Indeed, He will roar,

And His sons will come ^ctrembling from the west.

They will come trembling like birds from ^aEgypt

And like ^bdoves from the land of ^aAssyria;

And I will ^csettle them in their houses, declares Yahweh.

¹Ephraim surrounds Me with ²^alies

And the house of Israel with deceit;

And Judah is also unruly against God,

Even against the Holy One who is faithful.