Hosea 第5章
Punishment Coming for Israel and Judah
Pay attention, O house of Israel!
Give ear, O house of the king!
For the judgment is for you;
and a net spread upon 5:1 Judg. 4:6Tabor.
but 5:2 [Ps. 50:21]I will discipline all of them.
and Israel is not hidden from me;
for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore;
Israel is defiled.
to return to their God.
For 5:4 ch. 4:12the spirit of whoredom is within them,
and they know not the Lord.
Israel and 5:5 See ch. 6:4Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt;
5:5 See ch. 6:4Judah also shall stumble with them.
to seek the Lord,
5:6 ch. 9:12he has withdrawn from them.
for they have borne alien children.
Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.
the trumpet in 5:8 Josh. 18:25Ramah.
Sound the alarm at 5:8 See ch. 4:15Beth-aven;
we follow you,5:8 Or after you O Benjamin!
9Ephraim shall become a desolation
in the day of punishment;
among the tribes of Israel
I make known what is sure.
10The princes of Judah have become
like 5:10 Deut. 19:14those who move the landmark;
upon them I will pour out
my wrath like water.
11Ephraim is 5:11 Deut. 28:33; Amos 4:1oppressed, crushed in judgment,
because he was determined to go after filth.5:11 Or to follow human precepts
and 5:12 [Job 13:28]like dry rot to the house of Judah.
13When Ephraim saw his sickness,
then Ephraim went 5:13 ch. 7:11; 8:9; 12:1; 2 Kgs. 15:19to Assyria,
and sent to the great king.5:13 Or to King Jareb
5:13 ch. 14:3But he is not able to cure you
and like a young lion to the house of 5:14 See ch. 6:4Judah.
5:14 [Mic. 5:8]I, even I, will tear and go away;
I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.
155:15 [Jer. 29:10-12; Ezek. 6:9]; See Lev. 26:40-42I will return again to my place,
until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,
and 5:15 Isa. 26:16in their distress earnestly seek me.
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