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Hosea 5 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

The People’s Apostasy Rebuked

5 Hear this, you priests!
Pay attention, house of Israel!
Listen, you of the house of the king!
For the judgment applies to you,
Because you have been a ^(A)trap at Mizpah,
And a net spread out on Tabor.
²And the ^(B)rebels have ^(C)gone deep in ^[a]depravity,
But I will discipline all of them.
³I ^(D)know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me;
Because now, Ephraim, you have been unfaithful,
Israel has defiled itself.
⁴Their deeds will not allow them
To return to their God.
For a ^(E)spirit of ^[b]infidelity is within them,
And they ^(F)do not know the Lord.
⁵Moreover, the ^(G)pride of Israel testifies against him,
And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their wrongdoing;
^(H)Judah also has stumbled with them.
⁶They will ^(I)go with their flocks and herds
To seek the Lord, but they will ^(J)not find Him;
He has ^(K)withdrawn from them.
⁷They have ^(L)dealt treacherously with the Lord,
For they have given birth to ^[c]^(M)illegitimate children.
Now the ^(N)new moon will devour them with their ^[d]land.

⁸^(O)Blow the horn in ^(P)Gibeah,
And the trumpet in Ramah.
Sound an alarm at Beth-aven:
“^(Q)Behind you, Benjamin!”
⁹Ephraim will become a ^(R)desolation in the ^(S)day of rebuke;
Among the tribes of Israel I ^(T)make known what is trustworthy.
¹⁰The leaders of Judah have become like those who ^(U)displace a boundary marker;
On them I will ^(V)pour out My anger ^(W)like water.
¹¹Ephraim is ^(X)oppressed, broken by judgment,
^(Y)Because he was determined to follow ^[e]man’s command.
¹²Therefore I am like a ^(Z)moth to Ephraim,
And like rottenness to the house of Judah.
¹³When Ephraim saw his sickness,
And Judah his ^[f]sore,
Ephraim then went to ^(AA)Assyria
And sent word to ^[g]^(AB)King Jareb.
But he is ^(AC)unable to heal you,
Or to cure you of your ^[h]sore.
¹⁴For I will be ^(AD)like a lion to Ephraim
And like a young lion to the house of Judah.
^(AE)I, yes I, will tear to pieces and go away,
I will carry away, and there will be ^(AF)no one to rescue.
¹⁵I will go away and return to My place
Until they ^[i]^(AG)acknowledge their guilt and seek My face;
In their distress they will ^(AH)search for Me.

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