Hosea 5:1-5 — Legacy Standard Bible

Yahweh Withdraws from Israel

5Hear this, O priests!Give heed, O house of Israel!Give ear, O house of the king!For the judgment is for you,For you have been a ^asnare at MizpahAnd a net spread out on Tabor.²And the ^arevolters have ^bdug deep into slaughtering,But I will chastise all of them.³I ^aknow Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me;For now, O Ephraim, you have played the harlot;Israel has defiled itself.⁴Their deeds will not allow themTo return to their God.For a ^aspirit of harlotry is within them,And they ^bdo not know Yahweh.⁵Moreover, the ^apride of Israel answers against him,And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity;^bJudah also has stumbled with them.