Hosea 5
1 O ye priests: hear this, take heed, O thou household of Israel: give ear, O thou kingly house: for this punishment will come upon you, that are become a snare unto Mizphah, and a spread net unto the mount of Thabor.
2 They kill sacrifices by heaps, to beguile the people therewith: therefore will I punish them all.
3 I know Ephraim well enough, and Israell is not hid from me: for Ephraim is become an harlot: and Israel is defiled.
4 They are not minded to turn unto their God, for they have an whorish heart, so that they can not know the LORD.
5 But the pride of Israel will be rewarded him in his face, yea both Israel and Ephraim shall fall for their wickedness, and Judah with them also.
6 They shall come with their sheep and bullocks to seek the LORD, but they shall not find him, for he is gone from them.
7 As for the LORD, they have refused him, and brought up bastard children: a month therefore shall devour them with their portions.
8 Blow with the shawmes at Gabea, and with the trumpet in Ramah, cry out at Bethaven upon the yon-side of BenJamin.
9 In that time of the plague shall Ephraim be laid waste, therefore did I faithfully warn the tribes of Israel.
10 Yet are the princes of Juda become like them, that remove the landmarks, therefore will I pour out my wrath upon them like water.
11 Ephraim is oppressed, and can have no right of the law: for why? they follow the doctrines of men.
12 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Juda as a caterpillar.
13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his disease: Ephraim went unto Assur, and sent unto king Jareb: yet could not he help you, nor ease you of your pain.
14 I am unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a lion's whelp to the house of Judah. Even I, I will spoil them, and go my way. I will take them with me, and no man shall rescue them.
15 I will go, and return to my place, till they wax faint, and seek me.