HO-5:1 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.

HO-5:2 And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though

I [have been] a rebuker of them all.

HO-5:3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O

Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, [and] Israel is defiled.

HO-5:4 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.

HO-5:5 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.

HO-5:6 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seek the LORD; but they shall not find [him]; he hath withdrawn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.

HO-5:7 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they

have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them

with their portions.

HO-5:8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, [and] the trumpet in Ramah:

cry aloud [at] Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.

HO-5:9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the

tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.

HO-5:10 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the

bound: [therefore] I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

HO-5:11 Ephraim [is] oppressed [and] broken in judgment, because

he willingly walked after the commandment.

HO-5:12 Therefore [will] I [be] unto Ephraim as a moth, and to

the house of Judah as rottenness.

HO-5:13 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.

HO-5:14 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].

HO-5:15 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. 

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