Hosea 5
1
v Hear this, O priests!
Pay attention, O house of Israel!
Give ear, O house of the king!
For the judgment is for you;
for w you have been a snare at Mizpah
and a net spread upon x Tabor.
2
And y the revolters z have gone deep into slaughter,
but a I will discipline all of them.
3
b I know Ephraim,
and Israel is not hidden from me;
for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore;
Israel is defiled.
4
c Their deeds do not permit them
to return to their God.
For d the spirit of whoredom is within them,
and they know not the Lord.
5
e The pride of Israel testifies to his face;
Israel and f Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt;
f Judah also shall stumble with them.
6
g With their flocks and herds they shall go
to seek the Lord,
g but they will not find him;
h he has withdrawn from them.
7
i They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord;
for they have borne alien children.
Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.
8
j Blow the horn in k Gibeah,
the trumpet in l Ramah.
Sound the alarm at m Beth-aven;
we follow you, O Benjamin!
9
Ephraim shall become a desolation
in the day of punishment;
among the tribes of Israel
I make known what is sure.
10
The princes of Judah have become
like n those who move the landmark;
upon them I will pour out
my wrath like water.
11
Ephraim is o oppressed, crushed in judgment,
because he was determined to go after filth.
12
But I am p like a moth to Ephraim,
and p like dry rot to the house of Judah.
13
When Ephraim saw his sickness,
and Judah q his wound,
then Ephraim went r to Assyria,
and sent to the great king.
s But he is not able to cure you
or heal q your wound.
14
For I will be t like a lion to u Ephraim,
and like a young lion to the house of u Judah.
v I, even I, will tear and go away;
I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.
15
w I will return again to my place,
until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,
and x in their distress earnestly seek me.
-
Cross References
Hosea 4:1
Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel, for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land.
Joel 1:2
Hear this, you elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?
Amos 3:1
Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:
Micah 1:2
Hear, you peoples, all of you; pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it, and let the Lord God be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
-
Cross References
Hosea 6:9
As robbers lie in wait for a man, so the priests band together; they murder on the way to Shechem; they commit villainy.
Hosea 9:8
The prophet is the watchman of Ephraim with my God; yet a fowler's snare is on all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
-
Cross References
Judges 4:6
She sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali and said to him, "Has not the Lord, the God of Israel, commanded you, 'Go, gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking 10,000 from the people of Naphtali and the people of Zebulun.
-
Cross References
Hosea 9:15
Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal; there I began to hate them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.
-
Cross References
Hosea 9:9
They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins.
Isaiah 29:15
Ah, you who hide deep from the Lord your counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us? Who knows us?
-
Cross References
Psalms 50:21
These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.
-
Cross References
Amos 3:2
You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
Amos 5:12
For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins - you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.
-
Cross References
Isaiah 59:2
But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
-
Cross References
Hosea 4:12
My people inquire of a piece of wood, and their walking staff gives them oracles. For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray, and they have left their God to play the whore.
-
Cross References
Hosea 7:10
The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him, for all this.
-
Cross References
Hosea 6:4
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.
-
Cross References
Hosea 6:4
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.
-
Cross References
Hosea 6:6
For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Isaiah 1:11
What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord ; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.
-
Cross References
Hosea 6:6
For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Isaiah 1:11
What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord ; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.
-
Cross References
Hosea 9:12
Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them!
-
Cross References
Hosea 6:7
But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.
-
Cross References
Hosea 8:1
Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law.
Jeremiah 4:5
Declare in Judah, and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say, "Blow the trumpet through the land; cry aloud and say, 'Assemble, and let us go into the fortified cities!
-
Cross References
Hosea 9:9
They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins.
Hosea 10:9
From the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, O Israel; there they have continued. Shall not the war against the unjust overtake them in Gibeah?
-
Cross References
Joshua 18:25
Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth.
-
Cross References
Hosea 4:15
Though you play the whore, O Israel, let not Judah become guilty. Enter not into Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-aven, and swear not, "As the Lord lives.
-
Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:14
You shall not move your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set, in the inheritance that you will hold in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
-
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:33
A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually.
Amos 4:1
"Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to your husbands, 'Bring, that we may drink!'
-
Cross References
Job 13:28
Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
-
Cross References
Job 13:28
Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
-
Cross References
Isaiah 1:5 - 6
Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
-
Cross References
Isaiah 1:5 - 6
Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
-
Cross References
Hosea 7:11
Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense, calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.
Hosea 8:9
For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey wandering alone; Ephraim has hired lovers.
Hosea 12:1
Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.
2 Kings 15:19
Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that he might help him to confirm his hold on the royal power.
-
Cross References
Hosea 14:3
Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses; and we will say no more, 'Our God,' to the work of our hands. In you the orphan finds mercy.
-
Cross References
Hosea 13:7
So I am to them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.
-
Cross References
Hosea 6:4
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.
-
Cross References
Hosea 6:4
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.
-
Cross References
Micah 5:8
And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which, when it goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.
-
Cross References
Jeremiah 29:10 - 12
For thus says the Lord : When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place.
Ezekiel 6:9
Then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.
Leviticus 26:40 - 42
But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me.
-
Cross References
Isaiah 26:16
O Lord, in distress they sought you; they poured out a whispered prayer when your discipline was upon them.
English Standard Version (ESV) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers.