Hosea:5-8

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* Hear ye this , O priests ; and hearken , ye house of Israel ; and give ye ear , O house of the king ; for judgment is toward you , because ye have been a snare on Mizpah , and a net spread upon Tabor . * And the revolters are profound to make slaughter , though I have been a rebuker of them all . * I know Ephraim , and Israel is not hid from me : for now , O Ephraim , thou committest whoredom , and Israel is defiled . * They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God : for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them , and they have not known the LORD . * And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face : therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity ; Judah also shall fall with them . * They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD ; but they shall not find him ; he hath withdrawn himself from them . * They have dealt treacherously against the LORD : for they have begotten strange children : now shall a month devour them with their portions . * Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah , and the trumpet in Ramah : cry aloud at Bethaven , after thee , O Benjamin . * Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke : among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be . * The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound : therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water . * Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment , because he willingly walked after the commandment . * Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth , and to the house of Judah as rottenness . * When Ephraim saw his sickness , and Judah saw his wound , then went Ephraim to the Assyrian , and sent to king Jareb : yet could he not heal you , nor cure you of your wound . * For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion , and as a young lion to the house of Judah : I , even I , will tear and go away ; I will take away , and none shall rescue him . * I will go and return to my place , till they acknowledge their offence , and seek my face : in their affliction they will seek me early . * Come , and let us return unto the LORD : for he hath torn , and he will heal us ; he hath smitten , and he will bind us up . * After two days will he revive us : in the third day he will raise us up , and we shall live in his sight . * Then shall we know , if we follow on to know the LORD : his going forth is prepared as the morning ; and he shall come unto us as the rain , as the latter and former rain unto the earth . * O Ephraim , what shall I do unto thee ? O Judah , what shall I do unto thee ? for your goodness is as a morning cloud , and as the early dew it goeth away . * Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets ; I have slain them by the words of my mouth : and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth . * For I desired mercy , and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings . * But they like men have transgressed the covenant : there have they dealt treacherously against me . * Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity , and is polluted with blood . * And as troops of robbers wait for a man , so the company of priests murder in the way by consent : for they commit lewdness . * I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel : there is the whoredom of Ephraim , Israel is defiled . * Also , O Judah , he hath set an harvest for thee , when I returned the captivity of my people . * When I would have healed Israel , then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered , and the wickedness of Samaria : for they commit falsehood ; and the thief cometh in , and the troop of robbers spoileth without . * And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness : now their own doings have beset them about ; they are before my face . * They make the king glad with their wickedness , and the princes with their lies . * They are all adulterers , as an oven heated by the baker , who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough , until it be leavened . * In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine ; he stretched out his hand with scorners . * For they have made ready their heart like an oven , whiles they lie in wait : their baker sleepeth all the night ; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire . * They are all hot as an oven , and have devoured their judges ; all their kings are fallen : there is none among them that calleth unto me . * Ephraim , he hath mixed himself among the people ; Ephraim is a cake not turned . * Strangers have devoured his strength , and he knoweth it not : yea , gray hairs are here and there upon him , yet he knoweth not . * And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face : and they do not return to the LORD their God , nor seek him for all this . * Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart : they call to Egypt , they go to Assyria . * When they shall go , I will spread my net upon them ; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven ; I will chastise them , as their congregation hath heard . * Woe unto them ! for they have fled from me : destruction unto them ! because they have transgressed against me : though I have redeemed them , yet they have spoken lies against me . * And they have not cried unto me with their heart , when they howled upon their beds : they assemble themselves for corn and wine , and they rebel against me . * Though I have bound and strengthened their arms , yet do they imagine mischief against me . * They return , but not to the most High : they are like a deceitful bow : their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue : this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt . * Set the trumpet to thy mouth . He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD , because they have transgressed my covenant , and trespassed against my law . * Israel shall cry unto me , My God , we know thee . * Israel hath cast off the thing that is good : the enemy shall pursue him . * They have set up kings , but not by me : they have made princes , and I knew it not : of their silver and their gold have they made them idols , that they may be cut off . * Thy calf , O Samaria , hath cast thee off ; mine anger is kindled against them : how long will it be ere they attain to innocency ? * For from Israel was it also : the workman made it ; therefore it is not God : but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces . * For they have sown the wind , and they shall reap the whirlwind : it hath no stalk : the bud shall yield no meal : if so be it yield , the strangers shall swallow it up . * Israel is swallowed up : now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure . * For they are gone up to Assyria , a wild ass alone by himself : Ephraim hath hired lovers . * Yea , though they have hired among the nations , now will I gather them , and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes . * Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin , altars shall be unto him to sin . * I have written to him the great things of my law , but they were counted as a strange thing . * They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings , and eat it ; but the LORD accepteth them not ; now will he remember their iniquity , and visit their sins : they shall return to Egypt . * For Israel hath forgotten his Maker , and buildeth temples ; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities : but I will send a fire upon his cities , and it shall devour the palaces thereof . * Rejoice not , O Israel , for joy , as other people : for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God , thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor .

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