Hosea 5

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¹Hear 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. ✦ ²And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all. ✦ ³I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled. ✦ ⁴They 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. ✦ ⁵And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them. ✦ ⁶They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them. ✦ ⁷They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions. ✦ ⁸Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin. ✦ ⁹Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be. ✦ ¹⁰The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. ✦ ¹¹Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment. ✦ ¹²Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. ✦ ¹³When 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. ✦ ¹⁴For 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. ✦ ¹⁵I 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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Where this chapter connects

Hos 4 ·9 Hos 5 ·7 Hos 6 ·5 Hos 13 ·5 Hos 9 ·5 Hos 8 ·5 Amos 3 ·4 Amos 5 ·4

Christ at the center

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.

How Hosea 5 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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