Hosea, 5

1. Hear this, O priests, Pay attention, O house of Israel, O household of the king, give ear! It is you who are called to judgment. For you have become a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

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. In their perversity they have sunk into wickedness, and I am rejected by them all.

2. They have dug the ditch deep at Shittim and so I am going to punish them all.

3. I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; Now Ephraim has played the harlot, Israel is defiled.

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; For the spirit of harlotry is in them, and they do not recognize the LORD.

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. The arrogance of Israel bears witness against him; Ephraim stumbles in his guilt, and Judah stumbles with them.

5. Israel's arrogance is his accuser, the guilt of Israel and Ephraim is their undoing, Judah too will be undone with them.

6. With their flocks and their herds they shall go to seek the LORD, but they shall not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them.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 Though they go in search of Yahweh with their sheep and cattle, they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.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 been untrue to the LORD, for they have begotten illegitimate children; Now shall the new moon devour them together with their fields.

7. They have betrayed Yahweh because they have fathered bastards; now the new moon will devour them and their fields.

8. Blow the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah! Sound the alarm in Beth-aven: "Look behind you, O Benjamin!"

8. Sound the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah, raise the war cry in Beth-Aven, 'We are behind you, Benjamin!'

9. Ephraim shall become a waste on the day of chastisement: Against the tribes of Israel I announce what is sure to be.

9. When the day of punishment comes, Ephraim will be a wasteland; on the tribes of Israel I have pronounced certain doom.

10. The princes of Judah have become like those that move a boundary line; Upon them I will pour out my wrath like water.

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. Is Ephraim maltreated, his rights violated? No, he has willingly gone after filth!

11. Ephraim is oppressed, crushed by the sentence, for having deliberately followed a Lie.

12. I am like a moth for Ephraim, like maggots for the house of Judah.

12. Because of this, I shall be like ringworm for Ephraim and like gangrene for the House of Judah.

13. When Ephraim saw his infirmity, and Judah his sore, Ephraim went to Assyria, and Judah sent to the great king. But he cannot heal you nor take away your sore.

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 am like a lion to Ephraim, like a young lion to the house of Judah; It is I who rend the prey and depart, I carry it away and no one can save it from me.

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 will go back to my place until they pay for their guilt and seek my presence.

15. I shall go back to my place until they confess their guilt and seek me, seek me eagerly in their distress.