HOSEA 5
1 Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, ye house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king, for unto you pertain the judgment; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
2 And the revolters are gone deep in making slaughter; but I am a rebuker of them all.
3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou hast committed whoredom, Israel is defiled.
4 Their doings will not suffer them to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not the LORD.
5 And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity; Judah also shall stumble with them.
6 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him: he hath withdrawn himself from them.
7 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD; for they have borne strange children: now shall the new moon devour them with their fields.
8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: sound an alarm at Beth-aven; behind thee, O Benjamin.
9 Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
10 The princes of Judah are like them that remove the landmark: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
11 Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; because he was content to walk after the command.
12 Therefore am I unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither shall he cure you of your wound.
14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and there shall be none to deliver.
15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me earnestly.
Cross-references
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- 1Hos 9:8, Hos 6:9, Hab 1:15–17, Mic 7:2, Mic 3:9, Hos 4:1, Mal 2:1, Hos 10:15
- 2Hos 9:15, Isa 29:15, Hos 6:9, Rev 3:19, Jer 25:3–7, Jer 6:28, Jer 18:18, Luk 22:2–5
- 3Amo 3:2, Heb 4:13, Isa 7:17, Gen 48:19–20, Hos 5:9, 1Ki 14:14–16, Hos 4:17–18, Deu 33:17
- 4Hos 4:12, 1Jn 2:3–4, Jer 9:24, Hos 4:6, Jhn 8:55, Jhn 16:3, Hos 4:1, 2Th 2:11–12
- 5Hos 7:10, Amo 5:2, Luk 19:22, Ezk 23:31–35, Pro 24:16, Isa 28:1–3, Hos 14:1, Pro 11:21
- 6Pro 1:28, Jhn 7:34, Mic 6:6–7, Lam 3:44, Ezk 8:6, Pro 15:8, Isa 1:11–15, Jer 7:4
- 7Hos 6:7, Psa 144:11, Hos 2:4, Jer 3:20, Ezk 12:28, Psa 144:7, Isa 48:8, Zec 11:8
- 8Jol 2:1, Hos 9:9, Hos 4:15, 1Sa 15:34, Jer 4:5, Jdg 5:14, Hos 8:1, Isa 10:29
- 9Isa 46:10, Zec 1:6, Hos 9:11–17, Isa 28:1–4, Jhn 16:4, Amo 3:14–15, Isa 48:3, Hos 11:5–6
- 10Deu 19:14, Psa 32:6, Psa 93:3–4, Deu 27:17, Pro 17:14, Luk 6:49, 2Ki 16:7–9, Ezk 7:8
- 11Mic 6:16, Deu 28:33, 1Ki 12:26–33, 2Ki 15:16–20, 2Ki 15:29, Amo 5:11–12
- 12Isa 51:8, Job 13:28, Jon 4:7, Pro 12:4, Mrk 9:43–48, Isa 50:9
- 13Jer 30:12, Hos 7:11, Hos 10:6, 2Ki 15:19, Hos 12:1, Jer 30:14–15, Hos 8:9, Mic 1:9
- 14Mic 5:8, Psa 7:2, Hos 13:7–8, Psa 50:22, Amo 3:4–8, Amo 2:14, Isa 5:29, Job 10:16
- 15Isa 26:16, Jer 29:12–14, Psa 78:34, Deu 4:29–31, Psa 50:15, Lev 26:40–42, Jer 3:13, Jer 2:27
Topics in this chapter
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Afflictions and Adversities, Assyria, Backsliders, Beth-Aven, Blindness, Confidence, Ephraim, Example, False Confidence, Holy Spirit, Idolatry, Impenitence, Jareb, Landmarks, Lion, Minister, Christian, Moth, Opportunity, Pride, Ramah, Repentance, Reprobacy, Rulers, Seekers, Sick, the, Sin, Tabor, Wicked (People)