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Chapter 5  
     
1.
 Hear you this, O priests; and hearken, you house of Israel; and give you ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because you have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
  
2.
 And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
  
3.
 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, you committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.
  
4.
 They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.
  
5.
 And the pride of Israel does testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity: Judah also shall fall with them.
  
6.
 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the Lord; but they shall not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them.
  
7.
 They have dealt treacherously against the Lord: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
  
8.
 Blow you the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.
  
9.
 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
  
10.
 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
  
11.
 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
  
12.
 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
  
13.
 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
  
14.
 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
  
15.
 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
  

 
 
 

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