| Chapter 5 |
1 |
Hear this, you priests, and listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king; for to you pertains the judgment; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor. |
2 |
The rebels have gone deep in making slaughter; but I discipline them all. |
3 |
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute, Israel is defiled. |
4 |
Their doings will not allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don`t know Yahweh. |
5 |
The pride of Israel does testify to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity; Judah also shall stumble with them. |
6 |
They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh; but they shall not find him: he has withdrawn himself from them. |
7 |
They have dealt treacherously against Yahweh; for they have borne strange children: now shall the new moon devour them with their fields. |
8 |
Blow you the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: sound an alarm at Beth-aven; behind you, Benjamin. |
9 |
Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be. |
10 |
The princes of Judah are like those who remove the landmark: I will pour out my wrath on them like water. |
11 |
Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; because he was content to walk after man`s command. |
12 |
Therefore am I to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. |
13 |
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound. |
14 |
For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and there shall be none to deliver. |
15 |
I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me earnestly. |
