1 Hear this, O ye priests, and attend, ye house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king, for unto you pertaineth the judgment; for ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. 2 And they that fall away are gone deep in making slaughter; and I am rejected of them all. 3 I, even I, know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from Me; for now, O Ephraim, thou hast committed harlotry, Israel is defiled. 4 Their doings will not suffer them to return unto their God; for the spirit of harlotry is within them, and they know not the LORD. 5 But the pride of Israel shall testify to his face; and Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity, Judah also shall stumble with them. 6 With their flocks and with their herds they shall go to seek the LORD, but they shall not find Him; He hath withdrawn Himself from them. 7 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD, for they have begotten strange children; now shall the new moon devour them with their portions. 8 Blow ye the horn in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah; sound an alarm at Beth-aven: 'Behind thee, O Benjamin!' 9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke; among the tribes of Israel do I make known that which shall surely be. 10 The princes of Judah are like them that remove the landmark; I will pour out My wrath upon them like water. 11 Oppressed is Ephraim, crushed in his right; because he willingly walked after filth. 12 Therefore am I unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. 13 And when Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to King Contentious; but he is not able to heal you, neither shall he cure you of your wound. 14 For 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 there shall be none to deliver. 15 I will go and return to My place, till they acknowledge their guilt, and seek My face; in their trouble they will seek Me earnestly:
Hosea 5 JPS Tanakh (1917)
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- Numbers like (22-2) in the text give the Hebrew verse numbering where it differs.
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Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Hosea 9:8; Micah 7:2; Habakkuk 1:15–17; Hosea 6:9; Micah 3:9
- 2 Hosea 9:15; Isaiah 29:15; Hosea 6:9; Hosea 6:5; Hosea 4:2
- 3 Amos 3:2; Hebrews 4:13; Hosea 8:11; 1 Kings 12:26–33; Isaiah 7:17
- 4 Hosea 4:12; 1 John 2:3–4; Jeremiah 22:15–16; Jeremiah 24:7; 2 Thessalonians 2:11–12
- 5 Hosea 7:10; Luke 19:22; Amos 5:2; Proverbs 24:16; Ezekiel 23:31–35
- 6 Proverbs 1:28; John 7:34; Micah 6:6–7; Lamentations 3:44; Proverbs 15:8
- 7 Hosea 6:7; Ezekiel 12:28; Hosea 2:4; Psalm 144:11; Psalm 144:7
- 8 Hosea 4:15; Hosea 9:9; Joel 2:1; 1 Samuel 15:34; Jeremiah 4:5
- 9 Isaiah 46:10; Zechariah 1:6; Hosea 9:11–17; Isaiah 28:1–4; John 16:4
- 10 Deuteronomy 19:14; Psalm 32:6; Psalm 93:3–4; Deuteronomy 27:17; Psalm 88:17
- 11 Micah 6:16; Deuteronomy 28:33; 1 Kings 12:26–33; 2 Kings 15:29; Amos 5:11–12
- 12 Isaiah 51:8; Jonah 4:7; Job 13:28; Isaiah 50:9; Proverbs 12:4
- 13 Hosea 7:11; Jeremiah 30:12; 2 Kings 15:19; Hosea 12:1; Hosea 10:6
- 14 Micah 5:8; Psalm 7:2; Psalm 50:22; Hosea 13:7–8; Amos 2:14
- 15 Isaiah 26:16; Jeremiah 29:12–14; Deuteronomy 4:29–31; Psalm 78:34; Psalm 50:15
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