Hosea 5

1 Hear this, priests, and pay attention, house of Israel, and listen closely, house of the king. For there is a judgment against you, because you have become a trap for those you watched over, and a net stretched out over Tabor.

Audite hoc sacerdotes, et attendite domus Israel, et domus regis auscultate: quia vobis iudicium est, quoniam laqueus facti estis speculationi, et rete expansum super Thabor.

2 And you have led astray victims into the depths, though I am the teacher of them all.

Et victimas declinastis in profundum: et ego eruditor omnium eorum.

3 I know Ephraim, and Israel has not been hidden from me, yet now Ephraim has committed fornication, and Israel has been contaminated.

Ego scio Ephraim, et Israel non est absconditus a me: quia nunc fornicatus est Ephraim, contaminatus est Israel.

4 They will not set their thoughts to return to their God, for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.

Non dabunt cogitationes suas ut revertantur ad Deum suum: quia spiritus fornicationum in medio eorum, et Dominum non cognoverunt.

5 And the arrogance of Israel will answer to his face. And Israel and Ephraim will fall in their iniquity, and even Judah will fall with them.

Et respondebit arrogantia Israel in facie eius: et Israel, et Ephraim ruent in iniquitate sua, ruet etiam Iudas cum eis.

6 With their flocks and their herds, they will go to seek the Lord, and they will not find him. He has taken himself away from them.

In gregibus suis, et in armentis suis vadent ad quærendum Dominum, et non invenient: ablatus est ab eis.

7 They have sinned against the Lord. For they have conceived sons that are strangers. Now one month will devour them with all their own.

In Dominum prævaricati sunt, quia filios alienos genuerunt: nunc devorabit eos mensis cum partibus suis.

8 Sound the bugle in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah. Shout in Bethaven, behind your back, O Benjamin.

Clangite buccina in Gabaa, tuba in Rama: ululate in Bethaven, post tergum tuum Beniamin.

9 Ephraim will be in desolation on the day of correction, for within the tribes of Israel, I have revealed faith.

Ephraim in desolatione erit in die correptionis: in tribubus Israel ostendi fidem.

10 The leaders of Judah have become like those who assume the end. I will pour my wrath over them like water.

Facti sunt principes Iuda quasi assumentes terminum: super eos effundam quasi aquam iram meam.

11 Ephraim has been enduring malicious slander and broken judgment, because he began to go after filth.

Calumniam patiens est Ephraim, fractus iudicio: quoniam cœpit abire post sordes.

12 And I will be like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.

Et ego quasi tinea Ephraim: et quasi putredo domui Iuda.

13 And Ephraim saw his own weakness, and Judah his chains. And Ephraim went to Assur, and he sent to the Avenging king. But he will not be able to heal you, nor is he able to release you from your chains.

Et vidit Ephraim languorem suum, et Iuda vinculum suum: et abiit Ephraim ad Assur, et misit ad regem Ultorem: et ipse non poterit sanare vos, nec solvere poterit a vobis vinculum.

14 For I will be like a lioness to Ephraim, and like a lion’s offspring to the house of Judah. I myself will seize and go forth. I will take away, and there is no one who can rescue.

Quoniam ego quasi leæna Ephraim, et quasi catulus leonis domui Iuda: ego ego capiam, et vadam: tollam, et non est qui eruat.

15 I will go and return to my place, until you shall grow faint and seek my face.

Vadens revertar ad locum meum: donec deficiatis, et quæratis faciem meam.