Hosea 5 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹ *Listen to this, you Kohanim! Listen, house of Yisra'el, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mitzpah, and a net spread on Tavor.

² The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I discipline all of them.

³ I know Efrayim, and Yisra'el is not hidden from me; for now, Efrayim, you have played the prostitute. Yisra'el is defiled.

⁴ Their deeds won't allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don't know the LORD.

⁵ The pride of Yisra'el testifies to his face. Therefore Yisra'el and Efrayim will stumble in their iniquity. Yehudah also will stumble with them.

⁶ They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they won't find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.

⁷ They are unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.

⁸ *Blow the cornet in Gevah, and the shofar in Ramah! Sound a battle cry at Beit-Aven, behind you, Binyamin!

⁹ Efrayim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Yisra'el, I have made known that which will surely be.

¹⁰ The princes of Yehudah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.

¹¹ Efrayim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.

¹² Therefore I am to Efrayim like a moth, and to the house of Yehudah like rottenness.

¹³ *When Efrayim saw his sickness, and Yehudah his wound, Then Efrayim went to Ashur, and sent to king Yarev: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.

¹⁴ For I will be to Efrayim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Yehudah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.

¹⁵ I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.*