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The People’s Apostasy Rebuked
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.
The Arevolters have 1Bgone deep in depravity,
But I will chastise all of them.
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 the Lord.
Moreover, the Apride of Israel testifies 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 the Lord, but they will Bnot find Him;
He has Cwithdrawn from them.
They have Adealt treacherously against the Lord,
For they have borne 1Billegitimate children.
Now the Cnew moon will devour them with their 2land.
 
ABlow the horn in BGibeah,
The trumpet in Ramah.
Sound an alarm at Beth-aven:
CBehind you, Benjamin!”
Ephraim will become a Adesolation in the Bday of rebuke;
Among the tribes of Israel I Cdeclare what is sure.
10 The princes of Judah have become like those who Amove a boundary;
On them I will Bpour out My wrath Clike water.
11  Ephraim is Aoppressed, crushed in judgment,
BBecause he was determined to 1follow man’s command.
12 Therefore I am like a Amoth to Ephraim
And like rottenness to the house of Judah.
13 When Ephraim saw his sickness,
And Judah his 1wound,
Then Ephraim went to AAssyria
And sent to 2BKing Jareb.
But he is Cunable to heal you,
Or to cure you of your 1wound.
14 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.
15 I will go away and return to My place
Until they 1Aacknowledge their guilt and seek My face;
In their affliction they will earnestly Bseek Me.
A 5:1 Hos 9:8 A 5:2 Hos 9:15 1 5:2 Or waded deep in slaughter B 5:2 Is 29:15; Hos 4:2; 6:9 A 5:3 Amos 3:2; 5:12 A 5:4 Hos 4:12 B 5:4 Hos 4:6, 14 A 5:5 Hos 7:10 B 5:5 Ezek 23:31-35 A 5:6 Hos 8:13; Mic 6:6, 7 B 5:6 Prov 1:28; Is 1:15; Jer 14:12 C 5:6 Ezek 8:6 A 5:7 Is 48:8; Jer 3:20; Hos 6:7 1 5:7 Lit strange B 5:7 Hos 2:4 C 5:7 Is 1:14; Hos 2:11 2 5:7 Lit portions A 5:8 Joel 2:1 B 5:8 Hos 9:9; 10:9 C 5:8 Judg 5:14 A 5:9 Is 28:1-4; Hos 9:11-17 B 5:9 Is 37:3 C 5:9 Is 46:10; Zech 1:6 A 5:10 Deut 19:14; 27:17 B 5:10 Ezek 7:8 C 5:10 Ps 32:6; 93:3, 4 A 5:11 Deut 28:33 B 5:11 Mic 6:16 1 5:11 Or with some ancient versions, follow nothingness A 5:12 Ps 39:11; Is 51:8 1 5:13 Or ulcer A 5:13 Hos 7:11; 8:9; 12:1 2 5:13 Or the avenging king or the great king B 5:13 Hos 10:6 C 5:13 Jer 30:12-15 1 5:13 Or ulcer A 5:14 Ps 7:2; Hos 13:7, 8; Amos 3:4 B 5:14 Ps 50:22 C 5:14 Mic 5:8 1 5:15 Or bear their punishment A 5:15 Is 64:7-9; Jer 3:13, 14 B 5:15 Ps 50:15; 78:34; Jer 2:27; Hos 3:5