Hosea 5

"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 will not allow them to turn to their God;

For the spirit of prostitution is within them,

And they do not know Allah.

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 Allah;

But they will not find him.

He has withdrawn himself from them.

⁷They are unfaithful to Allah;

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, Binyamin!

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.

¹³When 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."