Hosea:5

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* 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 , * which they that hunt the prey have fixed : but I (note :)Gr . will be your corrector (:note ) will correct you . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * They shall go with sheep and calves diligently to seek the Lord ; but they shall not find him , for he has withdrawn himself from them . * For they have forsaken the Lord ; for strange children have been born to them : now shall the cankerworm devour them and their heritages . * Blow ye the trumpet on the hills , sound aloud on the heights : proclaim in the house of On , Benjamin is amazed . * Ephraim has come to (note :)Gr . vanishing (:note ) nought in the days of reproof : in the tribes of Israel I have shown faithful dealings . * The princes of Juda became as they that removed the bounds : I will pour out upon them my fury as water . * Ephraim altogether prevailed against his adversary , he trod judgement under foot , for he began to go after vanities . * Therefore I will be as consternation to Ephraim , and as a goad to the house of Juda . * 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 . * 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 . * I will go and return to my place , until they are brought to nought , and then shall they seek my face .

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