bes - 5

bes@Hosea:5:1 @ Hear these things, ye priests; and attend, O house of Israel; and hearken, O house of the king; for the (note:)Or, judgement is toward you(:note) controversy is with you, because ye have been a snare in Or, the watchtower Scopia, and as a net spread on Itabyrium,

bes@Hosea:5:2 @ which they that hunt the prey have fixed: but I (note:)Gr. will be your corrector(:note) will correct you.

bes@Hosea:5:3 @ I know Ephraim, and Israel (note:)Lit. has not departed; Alex. apestin(:note) is not far from me: for now Ephraim has gone grievously a-whoring, Israel is defiled.

bes@Hosea:5:4 @ They have not framed their counsels to return to their God, for the spirit of fornication is in them, and they have not known the Lord.

bes@Hosea:5:5 @ And the pride of Israel shall be brought low before his face; and Israel and Ephraim shall (note:)Gr. be weak(:note) fall in their iniquities; and Judas also shall fall with them.

bes@Hosea:5:6 @ They shall go with sheep and calves diligently to seek the Lord; but they shall not find him, for he has withdrawn himself from them.

bes@Hosea:5:7 @ For they have forsaken the Lord; for strange children have been born to them: now shall the cankerworm devour them and their heritages.

bes@Hosea:5:8 @ Blow ye the trumpet on the hills, sound aloud on the heights: proclaim in the house of On, Benjamin is amazed.

bes@Hosea:5:9 @ Ephraim has come to (note:)Gr. vanishing(:note) nought in the days of reproof: in the tribes of Israel I have shown faithful dealings.

bes@Hosea:5:10 @ The princes of Juda became as they that removed the bounds: I will pour out upon them my fury as water.

bes@Hosea:5:11 @ Ephraim altogether prevailed against his adversary, he trod judgement under foot, for he began to go after vanities.

bes@Hosea:5:12 @ Therefore I will be as consternation to Ephraim, and as a goad to the house of Juda.

bes@Hosea:5:13 @ And Ephraim saw his disease, and Judas his pain; then Ephraim went to the Assyrians, and sent ambassadors to king Jarim: but he could not heal you, and your pain shall in nowise cease from you.

bes@Hosea:5:14 @ Wherefore I am as a panther to Ephraim, and as a lion to the house of Juda: and I will tear, and go away; and I will take, and there shall be none to deliver.

bes@Hosea:5:15 @ I will go and return to my place, until they are brought to nought, and then shall they seek my face.

Hosea 5