Hos 5
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Hear these things, you priests; and attend, O house of Israel; and hearken, O house
of the king; for the Or, judgement is toward you controversy is with you, because you have been a snare in Or, the watchtower
Scopia, and as a net spread on Itabyrium,
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which they that hunt the prey have fixed: but I Gr. will be your corrector will correct you.
3
I know Ephraim, and Israel Lit. has not departed; Alex. apestin is not far from me: for now Ephraim has gone grievously a-whoring,
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.
5
And the pride of Israel shall be brought low before his face; and Israel and Ephraim
shall Gr. be weak fall in their iniquities; and Judas also shall fall 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find him, for he has withdrawn himself from them.
7
For they have forsaken the Lord; for strange children have been born to them: now
shall the cankerworm devour them and their heritages.
8
Blow you the trumpet on the hills, sound aloud on the heights: proclaim in the house
of On, Benjamin is amazed.
9
Ephraim has come to Gr. vanishing nothing in the days of reproof: in the tribes of Israel I have shown faithful dealings.
10
The princes of Juda became as they that removed the bounds: I will pour out upon them
my fury as water.
11
Ephraim altogether prevailed against his adversary, he trod judgement under foot,
for he began to go after vanities.
12
Therefore I will be as consternation to Ephraim, and as a goad to the house of Juda.
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.
14
Wherefore 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.
15
I will go and return to my place, until they are brought to nothing, and then shall
they seek my face.