Hosea, 5

1. Hear this, O priests! Give heed, O house of Israel! Hearken, O house of the king! For the judgment pertains to you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

2. And they have made deep the pit of Shittim; but I will chastise all of them.

3. I know E'phraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, O E'phraim, you have played the harlot, Israel is defiled.

4. Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of harlotry is within them, and they know not the LORD.

5. The pride of Israel testifies to his face; E'phraim shall stumble in his guilt; Judah also shall stumble with them.

6. With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the LORD, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.

7. They have dealt faithlessly with the LORD; for they have borne alien children. Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.

8. Blow the horn in Gib'e-ah, the trumpet in Ramah. Sound the alarm at Beth-a'ven; tremble, O Benjamin!

9. E'phraim shall become a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I declare what is sure.

10. The princes of Judah have become like those who remove the landmark; upon them I will pour out my wrath like water.

11. E'phraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to go after vanity.

12. Therefore I am like a moth to E'phraim, and like dry rot to the house of Judah.

13. When E'phraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then E'phraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king. But he is not able to cure you or heal your wound.

14. For I will be like a lion to E'phraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will rend and go away, I will carry off, and none shall rescue.

15. I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress they seek me, saying,

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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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