Osee 5

¹Hear ye this o Priests, and attend ye house of Israel, and you the king's house harken: because there is judgement for you, because you are become a snare to speculation, & a net spread upon Thabor.

²And victims you have declined into the depth: & I the teacher of them all.

³I know Ephraim, & Israel is not hid from me: because now hath Ephraim fornicated, Israel is contaminated.

⁴They will not give their cogitations to return to their God, because the spirit of fornications is in the midst of them, & they have not known the Lord.

⁵And the arrogancy of Israel shall answer in his face: and Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquity, Judas also shall fall with them.

⁶In their flocks and in their herds they shall go to seek the Lord, and shall not find: he is taken away from them.

⁷They have prevaricated against the Lord, because they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their parts.

⁸Sound with the trumpet in Gabaa, & with the shalm in Rama: howl ye in Bethaven, behind thy back o Benjamin.

⁹Ephraim shall be in desolation in the day of correction: in the tribes of Israel I have shewed faith.

¹⁰The princes of Juda are become as they that take the bound: I will pour out my wrath as water upon them.

¹¹Ephraim is suffering calumny, broken in judgement: because he began to go after filthiness.

¹²And I as it were a moth to Ephraim: & as the rot to the house of Juda.

¹³And Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judas his band: and Ephraim went to Assur, and sent to the king revenger: and he shall not be able to heal you, neither shall he be able to loose the band from you.

¹⁴Because I as it were a lioness to Ephraim, and as a lion's whelp to the house of Juda: I, I will take, and go: I will take away, and there is none that can deliver.

¹⁵Going I will return to my place: until you fail and seek my face.