Hosea 5

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.

2 The rebels are deep in slaughter;

    but I discipline all of them.

3 I know Ephraim,

    and Israel is not hidden from me;

for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute.

    Israel is defiled.

4 Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God;

    for the spirit of prostitution is within them,

    and they don’t know Yahweh.

5 The pride of Israel testifies to his face.

    Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity.

    Judah also will stumble with them.

6 They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh;

    but they won’t find him.

    He has withdrawn himself from them.

7 They are unfaithful to Yahweh;

    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, Benjamin!

9 Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke.

    Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.

10 The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark.

    I will pour out my wrath on them like water.

11 Ephraim is oppressed,

    he is crushed in judgment;

    Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.

12 Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth,

    and to the house of Judah like rottenness.

13 “When 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.

14 For 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.

15 I will go and return to my place,

    until they acknowledge their offense,

    and seek my face.

    In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”