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but they shall not find [him]; he hath withdrawn himself from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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