Hosea 5:3

Hosea 5:3

Impending Judgment on Israel and Judah

1 “Hear this, O priests!
Take heed, O house of Israel!
Give ear, O house of the king!
For¹ yours is the judgment,
Because ^ayou have been a snare to Mizpah
And a net spread on Tabor.

2 The revolters are ^adeeply involved in slaughter,
Though I rebuke them all.

3 ^aI know Ephraim,
And Israel is not hidden from Me;
For now, O Ephraim, ^byou commit harlotry;
Israel is defiled.

4 “They¹ do not direct their deeds
Toward turning to their God,
For ^athe spirit of harlotry is in their midst,
And they do not know the Lord.

5 The ^apride of Israel testifies to his face;
Therefore Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity;
Judah also stumbles with them.

6 “With their flocks and herds
^aThey shall go to seek the Lord,
But they will not find Him;
He has withdrawn Himself from them.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Ephraim—the tribe so called, as distinguished from "Israel" here, the other nine tribes. It was always foremost of the tribes of the northern kingdom. For four hundred years in early history, it, with Manasseh and Benjamin, its two dependent tribes, held the pre-eminence in the whole nation. Ephraim is here addressed as foremost in idolatry.

I how . . . not hid from me—notwithstanding their supposed profound cunning (Hosea 5:2; Revelation 2:2, Revelation 2:9, Revelation 2:13, Revelation 2:19).

now—"though I have been a rebuker of all them" (Hosea 5:2) who commit such spiritual whoredoms, thou art now continuing in them.

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