Hosea 5
15 verses
Hosea expands his indictment to include priests, the king's house, and the people of Israel, each playing a role in the systematic corruption of worship and justice that has infected the whole covenant community. The prophet employs hunting and hunting imagery—the LORD as a lion and a moth—to convey judgment that will tear away and waste Ephraim and Judah until they seek His face. Israel's pride and refusal to return to the LORD despite affliction blinds them to their need for repentance and keeps them from recognizing that their only hope lies in God's mercy and restoration. The chapter concludes with an allusion to the coming exile: Assyria will become Israel's judge, yet even this judgment serves the purpose of humbling the people and preparing them for genuine return to God. Hosea thus presents exile not as final abandonment but as a necessary and painful means by which God teaches His covenant people to value His love above all other loyalties.
VERSES IN THIS CHAPTER
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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.
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And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
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I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.
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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.
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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.
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They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the Lord; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.
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They have dealt treacherously against the Lord: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
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Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Beth–aven, after thee, O Benjamin.
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Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
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The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
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Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
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Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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