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title: Hosea 5
slug: kjv/hosea-5
createdAt: 2024-08-25T02:45:56.600Z
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**1 **Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment *is* toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

**2 **And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I *have been* a rebuker of them all.

**3 **I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, *and* Israel is defiled.

**4 **They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms *is* in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

**5 **And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall 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**6 **They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find *him*; he hath withdrawn himself from them.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 begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.

**8 **Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, *and* the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud *at* Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.

**9 **Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.

**10 **The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: *therefore* I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

**11 **Ephraim *is* oppressed *and* broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.

**12 **Therefore *will* I *be* 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 the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor 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 take away, and none shall rescue *him*.

**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 early.