Hosea 5 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ Ephraim shall be in desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel I have shewn that which shall surely be.

² 0 The princes of Juda are become as they that take up the bound: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

³ 1 Ephraim is under oppression, and broken in judgment: because he began to go after filthiness.

⁴ 2 And I will be like a moth to Ephraim: and like rottenness to the house of Juda.

⁵ 3 And Ephraim saw his sickness, and Juda his band: and Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to the avenging king: and he shall not be able to heal you, neither shall he be able to take off the band from you.

⁶ 4 For I will be like a lioness to Ephraim, and like a lion's whelp to the house of Juda: I, I will catch, and go: I will take away, and there is none that can rescue.

⁷ 5 I will go and return to my place: until you are consumed, and seek my face.

⁸ In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord:

⁹ For he hath taken us, and he will heal us: he will strike, and he will cure us.

¹⁰ He will revive us after two days: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. We shall know, and we shall follow on, that we may know the Lord. His going forth is prepared as the morning light, and he will come to us as the early and the latter rain to the earth.

¹¹ What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do to thee, O Juda? your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth away in the morning.

¹² For this reason have I hewed them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments shall go forth as the light.

¹³ For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.

¹⁴ But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant, there have they dealt treacherously against me.

¹⁵ Galaad is a city of workers of idols, supplanted with blood.