ø     eBIBLE         ȸ             伺뵶     Ǵ    ȸҰ
  eBIBLE       ּ            
Library > Bible versions > NLT (New Living Translation) > Hosea > 5 >
Hosea  


5 : 1 Hear this, O priests!Pay attention, O house of Israel!Give ear, O house of the king!For the judgment is for you;foryou have been a snare at Mizpahand a net spread uponTabor.
5 : 2 Andthe revoltershave gone deep into slaughter,butI will discipline all of them.
5 : 3 I know Ephraim,and Israel is not hidden from me;for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore;Israel is defiled.
5 : 4 Their deeds do not permit themto return to their God.Forthe spirit of whoredom is within them,and they know not theLord.
5 : 5 The pride of Israel testifies to his face;Israel andEphraim shall stumble in his guilt;Judah also shall stumble with them.
5 : 6 With their flocks and herds they shall goto seek theLord,but they will not find him;he has withdrawn from them.
5 : 7 They have dealt faithlessly with theLord;for they have borne alien children.Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.
5 : 8 Blow the horn inGibeah,the trumpet inRamah.Sound the alarm atBeth-aven;we follow you,O Benjamin!
5 : 9 Ephraim shall become a desolationin the day of punishment;among the tribes of IsraelI make known what is sure.
5 : 10 The princes of Judah have becomelikethose who move the landmark;upon them I will pour outmy wrath like water.
5 : 11 Ephraim isoppressed, crushed in judgment,because he was determined to go after filth.
5 : 12 But I amlike a moth to Ephraim,andlike dry rot to the house of Judah.
5 : 13 When Ephraim saw his sickness,and Judahhis wound,then Ephraim wentto Assyria,and sent to the great king.But he is not able to cure youor healyour wound.
5 : 14 For I will belike a lion toEphraim,and like a young lion to the house ofJudah.I, even I, will tear and go away;I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.
5 : 15 I will return again to my place,until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,andin their distress earnestly seek me.