Hosea 5

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¹“Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor. ✦ ²The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I discipline all of them. ✦ ³I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled. ✦ ⁴Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don’t know Yahweh. ✦ ⁵The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them. ✦ ⁶They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh; but they won’t find him. He has withdrawn himself from them. ✦ ⁷They are unfaithful to Yahweh; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields. ✦ ⁸“Blow the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah! Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin! ✦ ⁹Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be. ✦ ¹⁰The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water. ✦ ¹¹Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols. ✦ ¹²Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness. ✦ ¹³“When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound. ✦ ¹⁴For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver. ✦ ¹⁵I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.” ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Hos 4 ·9 Hos 5 ·7 Hos 6 ·5 Hos 9 ·5 Hos 8 ·5 Hos 13 ·5 2 Kgs 15 ·4 Amos 5 ·4

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God's relentless love for an unfaithful bride dramatizes the gospel: 'Out of Egypt I called my son' is fulfilled in Jesus, who redeems an adulterous people at his own cost.

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