1 Hear this, O priests! and you, people of Israel, pay attention! Hear, officials of the king for you are to be judged. You have been a snare at Mizpah and a net on Tabor,
2 and a deep pit at Shittim, so I am to punish you all.
3 I know what Israel is like; he cannot hide from me. Ephraim is playing the harlot; Israel is a people which defiles itself.
4 Their deeds prevent them from returning to their God; a spirit of prostitution has taken hold of them and they do not know Yahweh.
5 The pride of Israel is witness against him; this people are failing because of their guilt.
6 With their sheep and bulls they will go in search of Yahweh, but they will not find him for he has gone far from them.
7 He found they were unfaithful and their children were not his. So now the destroyer will do away with them and their lands will be devastated.
8 Blow the horn at Gibeah, the trumpet at Ramah, raise the battlecry in Beth-aven! For Benjamin has been defeated,
9 the day has come in which Ephraim is ruined. Let the tribes of Israel know that this is about to occur!
10 The princes of Judah are like those who remove border stones and I shall pour out my anger on them like a flood.
11 In the same way those of Ephraim are oppressors and trample justice.
12 I will be like a moth for Ephraim, like rot for Judah.
13 Ephraim saw he was sick and Judah saw his ulcer. Then Ephraim turned to the great King of Assyria for help, but he will not cure you or heal your sores.
14 I will be like a leopard for Ephraim and like a lion for Judah. I will tear them to pieces and leave them. When I carry them off, no one will rescue them.
15 Then I will go away and return to my place until they admit their guilt and come back to me, for in their anguish they will earnestly seek me.
Versículos relacionados com Hosea, 5:
Hosea Chapter 5 deals with divine rebuke to the people of Israel for their sins, especially their infidelity to God and their lack of repentance. Following are five selected verses from other parts of the Bible that address topics related to this chapter:
Jeremiah 8:4-5: "Thus saith the Lord, they do not repent, to give glory to my name, saying, The Lord is great, and is worthy of being praised? However, these people are rebellious and stubborn in their hearts ; they walked away and gone. " This verse addresses God's call to repentance and sins confession, a central theme in Hosea 5.
Proverbs 28:13: "Which covers your transgressions will never prosper, but what confesses them and leaves them, will reach mercy." This verse highlights the importance of sincere repentance and the confession of sins to achieve divine forgiveness, something that the people of Israel were failing to do.
Isaiah 1:16-17: "Wash, purify you; take away from my eyes the evil of your acts; cease to do evil. Orphan, defended the cause of the widow. " These verses show God's emphasis on righteousness and in the practice of goodness and love of neighbor, things that the people of Israel were neglecting.
Psalm 51:3-4: "For I recognize my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. I have sinned against you, and I did what is bad before your eyes; pronounce the sentence, and blameless in judging. " These verses express a deep sense of guilt and personal repentance, something that the people of Israel needed to experience.
Isaiah 59:2: "But your iniquities make separation between you and your God, and your sins cover your face from you, that you may not hear you." This verse highlights the reality of spiritual separation caused by sin and the need to seek reconciliation with God through repentance and confession.
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