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Hosea 5
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5"Listen to this, you priests! Pay attention, people of Israel! Listen, you that belong to the royal family! You are supposed to judge with justice - so judgment will fall on you! You have become a trap at Mizpah, a net spread on Mount Tabor,H8085H3548H7181H1004H3478H238H1004H4428H4941H6341H4709H7568H6566H8396
2a deep pit at Acacia City, and I will punish all of you.H7846H6009H7819H4148
3I know what Israel is like - she cannot hide from me. She has been unfaithful, and her people are unfit to worship me."H3045H669H3478H3582H669H2181H3478H2930

Hosea Warns against Idolatry

4The evil that the people have done keeps them from returning to their God. Idolatry has a powerful hold on them, and they do not acknowledge the LORD.H5414H4611H7725H430H7307H2183H7130H3045H3068
5The arrogance of the people of Israel cries out against them. Their sins make them stumble and fall, and the people of Judah fall with them.H1347H3478H6030H6440H3478H669H3782H5771H3063H3782
6They take their sheep and cattle to offer as sacrifices to the LORD, but it does them no good. They cannot find him, for he has left them.H3212H6629H1241H1245H3068H4672H2502
7They have been unfaithful to the LORD; their children do not belong to him. So now they and their lands will soon be destroyed.H898H3068H3205H2114H1121H2320H398H2506

War between Judah and Israel

8Blow the war trumpets in Gibeah! Sound the alarm in Ramah! Raise the war cry at Bethaven! Into battle, men of Benjamin!H8628H7782H1390H2689H7414H7321H1007H310H1144
9The day of punishment is coming, and Israel will be ruined. People of Israel, this will surely happen!H669H8047H3117H8433H7626H3478H3045H539
10The LORD says, "I am angry because the leaders of Judah have invaded Israel and stolen land from her. So I will pour out punishment on them like a flood.H8269H3063H5253H1366H8210H5678H4325
11Israel is suffering oppression; she has lost land that was rightfully hers, because she insisted on going for help to those who had none to give.H669H6231H7533H4941H2974H1980H310H6673
12I will bring destruction on Israel and ruin on the people of Judah.H669H6211H1004H3063H7538
13"When Israel saw how sick she was and when Judah saw her own wounds, then Israel went to Assyria to ask the great emperor for help, but he could not cure them or heal their wounds.H669H7200H2483H3063H4205H3212H669H804H7971H4428H3377H7378H3201H7495H1455H4205
14I will attack the people of Israel and Judah like a lion. I myself will tear them to pieces and then leave them. When I drag them off, no one will be able to save them.H669H7826H3715H1004H3063H2963H3212H5375H5337
15"I will abandon my people until they have suffered enough for their sins and come looking for me. Perhaps in their suffering they will try to find me."H3212H7725H4725H816H1245H6440H6862H7836


Good News Translation. Scripture taken from the Good News Translation in Today’s English Version- Second Edition Copyright © 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission. More details.
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