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Hosea 5:1-7

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The People’s Apostasy Rebuked

1Hear this, you priests!

Pay attention, house of Israel!

Listen, you of the house of the king!

For the judgment applies to you,

Because you have been a trap at Mizpah,

And a net spread out on Tabor.

2And the rebels have gone deep in depravity,

But I will discipline all of them.

3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me;

Because now, Ephraim, you have been unfaithful,

Israel has defiled itself.

4Their deeds will not allow them

To return to their God.

For a spirit of infidelity is within them,

And they do not know the Lord.

5Moreover, the pride of Israel testifies against him,

And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their wrongdoing;

Judah also has stumbled with them.

6They will go with their flocks and herds

To seek the Lord, but they will not find Him;

He has withdrawn from them.

7They have dealt treacherously with the Lord,

For they have given birth to illegitimate children.

Now the new moon will devour them with their land.