{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/kjv/hos005.htm","path":"bib/kjv/hos005.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/hos005.htm","text":"1\u00a0Hear 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.\n \n2\u00a0And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.\n \n3\u00a0I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.\n \n4\u00a0They 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.\n \n5\u00a0And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity: Judah also shall fall with them.\n \n6\u00a0They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.\n \n7\u00a0They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.\n \n8\u00a0Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.\n \n9\u00a0Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.\n \n10\u00a0The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.\n \n11\u00a0Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.\n \n12\u00a0Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.\n \n13\u00a0When 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.\n \n14\u00a0For 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.\n \n15\u00a0I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.","title":"King James Version: Hosea: Hosea Chapter 5","type":"page"}