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Hosea 5
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They Wouldn’t Recognize God If They Saw Him

5"Listen to this, priests! Attention, people of Israel! Royal family—all ears! You're in charge of justice around here. But what have you done? Exploited people at Mizpah, ripped them off on Tabor,H8085H3548H7181H1004H3478H238H1004H4428H4941H6341H4709H7568H6566H8396 2Victimized them at Shittim. I'm going to punish the lot of you.H7846H6009H7819H4148 3"I know you, Ephraim, inside and out. Yes, Israel, I see right through you! Ephraim, you've played your sex-and-religion games long enough. All Israel is thoroughly polluted.H3045H669H3478H3582H669H2181H3478H2930 4They couldn't turn to God if they wanted to. Their evil life is a bad habit. Every breath they take is a whore's breath. They wouldn't recognize GOD if they saw me.H5414H4611H7725H430H7307H2183H7130H3045H3068 5"Bloated by arrogance, big as a house, they're a public disgrace, The lot of them—Israel, Ephraim, Judah— lurching and weaving down their guilty streets.H1347H3478H6030H6440H3478H669H3782H5771H3063H3782 6When they decide to get their lives together and go off looking for GOD once again, They'll find it's too late. I, GOD, will be long gone.H3212H6629H1241H1245H3068H4672H2502 7They've played fast and loose with me for too long, filling the country with their bastard offspring. A plague of locusts will devastate their violated land.H898H3068H3205H2114H1121H2320H398H2506 8"Blow the ram's horn shofar in Gibeah, the bugle in Ramah! Signal the invasion of Sin City! Scare the daylights out of Benjamin!H8628H7782H1390H2689H7414H7321H1007H310H1144 9Ephraim will be left wasted, a lifeless moonscape. I'm telling it straight, the unvarnished truth, to the tribes of Israel.H669H8047H3117H8433H7626H3478H3045H539 10"Israel's rulers are crooks and thieves, cheating the people of their land, And I'm angry, good and angry. Every inch of their bodies is going to feel my anger.H8269H3063H5253H1366H8210H5678H4325 11"Brutal Ephraim is himself brutalized— a taste of his own medicine! He was so determined to do it his own worthless way.H669H6231H7533H4941H2974H1980H310H6673 12Therefore I'm pus to Ephraim, dry rot in the house of Judah.H669H6211H1004H3063H7538 13"When Ephraim saw he was sick and Judah saw his pus-filled sores, Ephraim went running to Assyria, went for help to the big king. But he can't heal you. He can't cure your oozing sores.H669H7200H2483H3063H4205H3212H669H804H7971H4428H3377H7378H3201H7495H1455H4205 14"I'm a grizzly charging Ephraim, a grizzly with cubs charging Judah. I'll rip them to pieces—yes, I will! No one can stop me now. I'll drag them off. No one can help them.H669H7826H3715H1004H3063H2963H3212H5375H5337 15Then I'll go back to where I came from until they come to their senses. When they finally hit rock bottom, maybe they'll come looking for me."H3212H7725H4725H816H1245H6440H6862H7836


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