1 Hear this, you priests, listen, House of Israel, pay attention, royal House, for it is you who have justice in your care, but you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net outspread on Tabor.
2 They have dug the ditch deep at Shittim and so I am going to punish them all.
3 Ephraim have I known, Israel is not hidden from me; and yet, Ephraim, you have played the whore, Israel is befouled.
4 Their deeds do not allow them to return to their God, since an urge to play the whore possesses them and they no longer know Yahweh.
5 Israel's arrogance is his accuser, the guilt of Israel and Ephraim is their undoing, Judah too will be undone with them.
6 Though they go in search of Yahweh with their sheep and cattle, they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.
7 They have betrayed Yahweh because they have fathered bastards; now the new moon will devour them and their fields.
8 Sound the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah, raise the war cry in Beth-Aven, 'We are behind you, Benjamin!'
9 When the day of punishment comes, Ephraim will be a wasteland; on the tribes of Israel I have pronounced certain doom.
10 The rulers of Judah act like men who move the boundary stone; I shall pour my wrath out on them like a flood.
11 Ephraim is oppressed, crushed by the sentence, for having deliberately followed a Lie.
12 Because of this, I shall be like ringworm for Ephraim and like gangrene for the House of Judah.
13 Once Ephraim realised that he was sick and Judah that he had an ulcer, Ephraim then went to Assyria, he sent messengers to the Great King; but he has no power to cure you or to heal you of your sore;
14 for I shall be like a lion to Ephraim, like a young lion to the House of Judah; I myself shall rend them, then go my way, shall carry them off, beyond hope of rescue.
15 I shall go back to my place until they confess their guilt and seek me, seek me eagerly in their distress.
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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