Osee 5
1 Hear these things, you priests; and attend, O house of Israel; and listen, O house of the king; for the controversy is with you, because you have been a snare in Scopia, and as a net spread on Itabyrium,
Hear this, priests! Attend, Israelites! Listen, royal family! For you is the judgment: a snare you have become at Mizpeh, and a net spread out on Tabor,
2 which they that hunt the prey have fixed: but I will correct you.
the rebels are deep in slaughter, but I will discipline all.
3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not far from me: for now Ephraim has gone grievously a-whoring, Israel is defiled.
I know Ephraim, Israel is not hidden from me, for you, Ephraim, have committed prostitution and Israel is defiled.
4 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.
Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of prostitution is within them, they do not know the Lord.
5 And the pride of Israel shall be brought low before his face; and Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquities; and Judas also shall fall with them.
Israel’s arrogance testifies against them, Israel, even Ephraim, stumble in their sin, and Judah also stumbles with them.
6 They shall go with sheep and calves diligently to seek the Lord; but they shall not find him, for he has withdrawn himself from them.
With their sheep and their cattle they will go to seek the Lord but they will not find him, he has withdrawn from them,
7 For they have forsaken the Lord; for strange children have been born to them: now shall the cankerworm devour them and their heritages.
for they have been untrue to the Lord, their children are strangers. Their new moon festivals will soon destroy them and their fields.
8 Blow you the trumpet on the hills, sound aloud on the heights: proclaim in the house of On, Benjamin is amazed.
Blow the trumpet in Gibeah, the clarion in Ramah! Raise the alarm in Beth-aven: we are with you, Benjamin!
9 Ephraim has come to nothing in the days of reproof: in the tribes of Israel I have shown faithful [dealings].
Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of punishment, concerning the tribes of Israel I make known what is certain.
10 The princes of Juda became as they that removed the bounds: I will pour out upon them my fury as water.
The princes of Israel have become like thieves who move boundary stones. On them I will pour out my wrath like a flood.
11 Ephraim altogether prevailed against his adversary, he trod judgement under foot, for he began to go after vanities.
Ephraim will be oppressed, crushed by judgment, for they are determined to go after vanity.
12 Therefore I [will be] as consternation to Ephraim, and as a goad to the house of Juda.
So I am like a moth to Ephraim, like rottenness to the house of Judah.
13 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.
For when Ephraim saw their sickness and Israel their wound, Ephraim turned to Assyria, to its patron king. But he cannot heal you nor relieve you of your wound.
14 Therefore 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.
For I myself will be like a lion to Ephraim, like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, yes I, will rend and go my way, I will carry off and none will rescue.
15 I will go and return to my place, until they are brought to nothing, and [then] shall they seek my face.
I will return to my place, until in remorse they seek my presence. When they are in distress they will quickly seek me,
