Hosea 5

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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 ⚑

² And the revolters are profound to make slaughter though I have been a rebuker of them all ⚑

³ I know Ephraim and Israel is not hid from me for now O Ephraim thou committest whoredom and Israel is defiled ⚑

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 ⚑

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 ⚑

⁶ They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD but they shall not find him he hath withdrawn himself from them ⚑

⁷ They have dealt treacherously against the LORD for they have begotten strange children now shall a month devour them with their portions ⚑

⁹ Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be ⚑

¹⁰ The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water ⚑

¹² Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth and to the house of Judah as rottenness ⚑

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 ⚑

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 ⚑

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 ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

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