# Hosea 5 (New King James Version)
Impending Judgment on Israel and Judah

##### Chapter 5
###### 1 "Hear this, O priests!  
Take heed, O house of Israel!  
Give ear, O house of the king!  
For yours _is_ the judgment,  
Because you have been a snare to Mizpah  
And a net spread on Tabor.  

###### 2 The revolters are deeply involved in slaughter,  
Though I rebuke them all.  

###### 3 I know Ephraim,  
And Israel is not hidden from Me;  
For now, O Ephraim, you commit harlotry;  
Israel is defiled.

###### 4 "They do not direct their deeds  
Toward turning to their God,  
For the spirit of harlotry is in their midst,  
And they do not know the Lord.  

###### 5 The pride of Israel testifies to his face;  
Therefore Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity;  
Judah also stumbles with them.

###### 6 "With their flocks and herds  
They shall go to seek the Lord,  
But they will not find _Him;_  
He has withdrawn Himself from them.  

###### 7 They have dealt treacherously with the Lord,  
For they have begotten pagan children.  
Now a New Moon shall devour them and their heritage.

###### 8 "Blow the ram's horn in Gibeah,  
The trumpet in Ramah!  
Cry aloud _at_ Beth Aven,  
'_Look_ behind you, O Benjamin!'  

###### 9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke;  
Among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure.

###### 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 _and_ broken in judgment,  
Because he willingly walked by _human_ precept.  

###### 12 Therefore I _will be_ to Ephraim like a moth,  
And to the house of Judah like rottenness.

###### 13 "When Ephraim saw his sickness,  
And Judah _saw_ his wound,  
Then Ephraim went to Assyria  
And sent to King Jareb;  
Yet he cannot cure you,  
Nor heal you of your wound.  

###### 14 For I _will be_ like a lion to Ephraim,  
And like a young lion to the house of Judah.  
I, _even_ I, will tear _them_ and go away;  
I will take _them_ away, and no one shall rescue.  

###### 15 I will return again to My place  
Till they acknowledge their offense.  
Then they will seek My face;  
In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me."