New American Standard Bible 2020

Hosea 5

The People’s Apostasy Rebuked

1Hear 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 1trap at Mizpah, And a net spread out on Tabor.2And the 2rebels have 3gone deep in 4depravity, But I will discipline all of them.3I 5know 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 6spirit of 7infidelity is within them, And they 8do not know the Lord.5Moreover, the 9pride of Israel testifies against him, And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their wrongdoing; 10Judah also has stumbled with them.6They will 11go with their flocks and herds To seek the Lord, but they will 12not find Him; He has 13withdrawn from them.7They have 14dealt treacherously with the Lord, For they have given birth to 15 16illegitimate children. Now the 17new moon will devour them with their 18land.

8 19Blow the horn in 20Gibeah, And the trumpet in Ramah. Sound an alarm at Beth-aven: “21Behind you, Benjamin!”9Ephraim will become a 22desolation in the 23day of rebuke; Among the tribes of Israel I 24make known what is trustworthy.10The leaders of Judah have become like those who 25displace a boundary marker; On them I will 26pour out My anger 27like water.11Ephraim is 28oppressed, broken by judgment, 29Because he was determined to follow 30man’s command.12Therefore I am like a 31moth to Ephraim, And like rottenness to the house of Judah.13When Ephraim saw his sickness, And Judah his 32sore, Ephraim then went to 33Assyria And sent word to 34 35King Jareb. But he is 36unable to heal you, Or to cure you of your 37sore.14For I will be 38like a lion to Ephraim And like a young lion to the house of Judah. 39I, yes I, will tear to pieces and go away, I will carry away, and there will be 40no one to rescue.15I will go away and return to My place Until they 41 42acknowledge their guilt and seek My face; In their distress they will 43search for Me.

Notes

1. Hosea 5:1 Hos 9:8 ↩
2. Hosea 5:2 Hos 9:15 ↩
3. Hosea 5:2 Is 29:15; Hos 4:2; 6:9 ↩
4. Hosea 5:2 Or slaughter ↩
5. Hosea 5:3 Amos 3:2; 5:12 ↩
6. Hosea 5:4 Hos 4:12 ↩
7. Hosea 5:4 Or prostitution ↩
8. Hosea 5:4 Hos 4:6, 14 ↩
9. Hosea 5:5 Hos 7:10 ↩
10. Hosea 5:5 Ezek 23:31-35 ↩
11. Hosea 5:6 Hos 8:13; Mic 6:6, 7 ↩
12. Hosea 5:6 Prov 1:28; Is 1:15; Jer 14:12 ↩
13. Hosea 5:6 Ezek 8:6 ↩
14. Hosea 5:7 Is 48:8; Jer 3:20; Hos 6:7 ↩
15. Hosea 5:7 Lit strange ↩
16. Hosea 5:7 Hos 2:4 ↩
17. Hosea 5:7 Is 1:14; Hos 2:11 ↩
18. Hosea 5:7 Lit portions ↩
19. Hosea 5:8 Joel 2:1 ↩
20. Hosea 5:8 Hos 9:9; 10:9 ↩
21. Hosea 5:8 Judg 5:14 ↩
22. Hosea 5:9 Is 28:1-4; Hos 9:11-17 ↩
23. Hosea 5:9 Is 37:3 ↩
24. Hosea 5:9 Is 46:10; Zech 1:6 ↩
25. Hosea 5:10 Deut 19:14; 27:17 ↩
26. Hosea 5:10 Ezek 7:8 ↩
27. Hosea 5:10 Ps 32:6; 93:3, 4 ↩
28. Hosea 5:11 Deut 28:33 ↩
29. Hosea 5:11 Mic 6:16 ↩
30. Hosea 5:11 Or with some ancient versions, nothingness ↩
31. Hosea 5:12 Ps 39:11; Is 51:8 ↩
32. Hosea 5:13 Or ulcer ↩
33. Hosea 5:13 Hos 7:11; 8:9; 12:1 ↩
34. Hosea 5:13 Or another reading is the great king; or the contentious king ↩
35. Hosea 5:13 Hos 10:6 ↩
36. Hosea 5:13 Jer 30:12-15 ↩
37. Hosea 5:13 Or ulcer ↩
38. Hosea 5:14 Ps 7:2; Hos 13:7, 8; Amos 3:4 ↩
39. Hosea 5:14 Ps 50:22 ↩
40. Hosea 5:14 Mic 5:8 ↩
41. Hosea 5:15 Or suffer their punishment ↩
42. Hosea 5:15 Is 64:7-9; Jer 3:13, 14 ↩
43. Hosea 5:15 Ps 50:15; 78:34; Jer 2:27; Hos 3:5 ↩

The People’s Apostasy Rebuked

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