Hosea 5 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

The People's Apostasy Rebuked

Hos 5:1Hear this, O priests!
Give heed, O house of Israel!
Listen, O house of the king!
For the judgment applies to you,
For you have been a snare at Mizpah
And a net spread out on Tabor.

Hos 5:2

Hos 5:2The revolters have [fn]gone deep in depravity,
But I will chastise all of them.

Hos 5:3

Hos 5:3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me;
For now, O Ephraim, you have played the harlot,
Israel has defiled itself.

Hos 5:4

Hos 5:4Their deeds will not allow them
To return to their God.
For a spirit of harlotry is within them,
And they do not know the LORD.

Hos 5:5

Hos 5:5Moreover, the pride of Israel testifies against him,
And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity;
Judah also has stumbled with them.

Hos 5:6

Hos 5:6They will go with their flocks and herds
To seek the LORD, but they will not find Him;
He has withdrawn from them.

Hos 5:7

Hos 5:7They have dealt treacherously against the LORD,
For they have borne [fn]illegitimate children.
Now the new moon will devour them with their [fn]land.

Hos 5:8

Hos 5:8Blow the horn in Gibeah,
The trumpet in Ramah.
Sound an alarm at Beth-aven:
“Behind you, Benjamin!”

Hos 5:9

Hos 5:9Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke;
Among the tribes of Israel I declare what is sure.

Hos 5:10

Hos 5:10The princes of Judah have become like those who move a boundary;
On them I will pour out My wrath like water.

Hos 5:11

Hos 5:11Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment,
Because he was determined to [fn]follow man’s command.

Hos 5:12

Hos 5:12Therefore I am like a moth to Ephraim
And like rottenness to the house of Judah.

Hos 5:13

Hos 5:13When Ephraim saw his sickness,
And Judah his [fn]wound,
Then Ephraim went to Assyria
And sent to [fn]King Jareb.
But he is unable to heal you,
Or to cure you of your [fn]wound.

Hos 5:14

Hos 5:14For I will be like a lion to Ephraim
And like a young lion to the house of Judah.
I, even I, will tear to pieces and go away,
I will carry away, and there will be none to deliver.

Hos 5:15

Hos 5:15I will go away and return to My place
Until they [fn]acknowledge their guilt and seek My face;
In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.

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NASB95 Footnotes

(5:2)

Or, waded deep in slaughter

(5:7)

Literally: strange

(5:7)

Literally: portions

(5:11)

Or, with some ancient versions, follow nothingness

(5:13)

Or, ulcer

(5:13)

Or, the avenging king or the great king

(5:15)

Or, bear their punishment

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