Hosea 5:3 - Forerunner Commentary

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He has withdrawn Himself from them.

7 They have ^adealt treacherously with the Lord,
For they have begotten¹ pagan children.
Now a New Moon shall devour them and their heritage.

8 “Blow^a the ram’s horn in Gibeah,
The trumpet in Ramah!
^bCry aloud at ^cBeth Aven,
‘Look behind you, O Benjamin!’

9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke;
Among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure.

10 “The princes of Judah are like those who ^aremove a landmark;
I will pour out My wrath on them like water.

11 Ephraim is ^aoppressed and broken in judgment,
Because he willingly walked by ^bhuman precept.

12 Therefore I will be to Ephraim like a moth,
And to the house of Judah ^alike rottenness.

13 “When Ephraim saw his sickness,
And Judah saw his ^awound,
Then Ephraim went ^bto Assyria
And sent to King Jareb;
Yet he cannot cure you,
Nor heal you of your wound.

14 For ^aI will be like a lion to Ephraim,
And like a young lion to the house of Judah.
^bI, even I, will tear them and go away;
I will take them away, and no one shall rescue.

15 I will return again to My place
Till they¹ acknowledge their offense.
Then they will seek My face;
In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”

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