1 “Hear this, priests, pay attention, house of Israel, listen, royal family! For judgment is coming your way, a5:1 Lit. is toward you because you have been a trap to Mizpah, a snare spread out on Mount b5:1 The Heb. lacks Mount Tabor. ISV — Hosea 5:1
2 The rebels are deep into their slaughter; I am punishing them all. ISV — Hosea 5:2
3 I know Ephraim, and Israel cannot hide from me, since you, Ephraim, have been acting like a prostitute, defiling Israel. ISV — Hosea 5:3
4 “Their actions hinder them from turning to their God, because a spirit of fornication is in their midst, and the LORD they do not know. ISV — Hosea 5:4
5 The arrogance of Israel testifies against him; therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity, and Judah with them. ISV — Hosea 5:5
6 They will go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them. ISV — Hosea 5:6
7 They have been unfaithful to the LORD, having raised unbelieving children. In the coming month they will be devoured, along with their fields. c5:7 Or inheritance ISV — Hosea 5:7
8 “Sound the trumpet in Gibeah, and the alarm in Ramah. Cry out at Beth-aven Go out, d5:8 So LXX.; MT After you Benjamin! ISV — Hosea 5:8
9 Ephraim will be desolate when it is rebuked. I have made known among the tribes of Israel what will surely come about. ISV — Hosea 5:9
10 The princes of Judah have become like those who move boundary markers: I will pour out my anger on them like water. ISV — Hosea 5:10
11 Ephraim is crushed, broken by judgment, because he e5:11 i.e. Ephraim as an individual personifying the northern kingdom of Israel. willingly pursued idols. f5:11 So LXX. MT willingly went away from the command ISV — Hosea 5:11
12 Therefore I will consume g5:12 The Heb. lacks will consume Ephraim like a moth, and the house of Judah as rottenness consumes. ISV — Hosea 5:12
13 When Ephraim examined his illness and Judah his injury, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and inquired of the great king; but he could not cure you nor heal your injury. ISV — Hosea 5:13
14 Therefore I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I—even I—will tear them h5:14 The Heb. lacks them to pieces, and then I will leave. I will take them i5:14 The Heb. lacks them away, and there will be no rescue. ISV — Hosea 5:14
15 “I will leave and go back to my place until they admit their offense and seek my face. When affliction comes to them, they will eagerly seek me.” ISV — Hosea 5:15