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Judgment on Leaders and Nation

Hosea 5:1-15

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Chapter 5
1 Hear this, O priests! Listen attentively, O house of Israel and house of the king! Give ear, for the judgment is for you, for you have been a trap at a snare, a net spread out on Tabor. 2 And slaughter has deepened the revolters, and I discipline all of them. 3 I have known Ephraim and Israel; it is not hidden from me, for now, Ephraim, you have prostituted; Israel is defiled. 4 They will not give their deeds to return to their God, for a spirit of whoredoms is in their midst, and they have not known the LORD. 5 The hubris of Israel testifies against him, and Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity; Judah also has stumbled with them. 6 With their sheep and their cattle they will go to seek the LORD, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them. 7 They have betrayed the LORD, for they have borne foreign sons; now a new moon will devour them—it devours their portions. 8 Blow the shofar at Gibeah, the trumpet at Ramah; shout at the house of On, after you, Benjamin. 9 Ephraim will become a desolation on the day of rebuke among the tribes of Israel; I have made it known faithfully. 10 The rulers of Judah have become like boundary violators. Upon them I will pour out like waters, having passed over. 11 Ephraim is oppressed, crushed by justice, because he was willing to walk after the divine command. 12 I am like a moth to Ephraim and like rot to the house of Judah. 13 Ephraim saw his disease and Judah his wound. Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to King Jareb, but he could not heal you, and he will not remove the wound from you. 14 For I am the LORD; I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, the LORD, I, the LORD, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and there is no deliverer. 15 I will go and return to my place until they are guilty and seek my face; in their distress they will seek me earnestly.