Yahweh Withdraws from Israel
Hear this, O priests!Give heed, O house of Israel!Give ear, O house of the king!For the judgment is for you,For you have been a asnare at MizpahAnd a net spread out on Tabor.Hos 9:82 And the arevolters have bdug deep into slaughtering,But I will chastise all of them.Hos 9:15Is 29:15; Hos 4:2; 6:93 I aknow Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me;For now, O Ephraim, you have played the harlot;Israel has defiled itself.Amos 3:2; 5:124 Their deeds will not allow themTo return to their God.For a aspirit of harlotry is within them,And they bdo not know Yahweh.Hos 4:12Hos 4:6, 145 Moreover, the apride of Israel answers against him,And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity;bJudah also has stumbled with them.Hos 7:10Ezek 23:31-356 They will ago with their flocks and herdsTo seek Yahweh, but they will bnot find Him;He has cwithdrawn from them.Hos 8:13; Mic 6:6, 7Prov 1:28; Is 1:15; Jer 14:12Ezek 8:67 They have adealt treacherously against Yahweh,For they have borne bchildren of strangers.Now the cnew moon will devour them with their portions.Is 48:8; Jer 3:20; Hos 6:7Hos 2:4Is 1:14; Hos 2:11
8 aBlow the horn in bGibeah,The trumpet in Ramah.Make a loud shout at Beth-aven:“cBehind you, Benjamin!”Joel 2:1Hos 9:9; 10:9Judg 5:149 Ephraim will become a adesolation in the bday of reproof;Among the tribes of Israel I cwill make known what is true.Is 28:1-4; Hos 9:11-17Is 37:3Is 46:10; Zech 1:610 The princes of Judah have become like those who amove a boundary;On them I will bpour out My wrath clike water.Deut 19:14; 27:17Ezek 7:8Ps 32:6; 93:3, 411 Ephraim is aoppressed, crushed in judgment,bBecause he was determined to 1walk after man’s command.Some ancient versions follow nothingnessDeut 28:33Mic 6:1612 Therefore I am like a amoth to EphraimAnd like rottenness to the house of Judah.Ps 39:11; Is 51:813 Then Ephraim saw his sickness,And Judah his sore,So Ephraim went to aAssyriaAnd sent to 1bKing Jareb.But he is cunable to heal youOr to cure you of your sore.Or the avenging king, the great kingHos 7:11; 8:9; 12:1Hos 10:6Jer 30:12-1514 For I will be alike a lion to EphraimAnd like a young lion to the house of Judah.bI, even I, will tear to pieces and go away;I will carry away, and there will be cnone to deliver.Ps 7:2; Hos 13:7, 8; Amos 3:4Ps 50:22Mic 5:815 I will go away and return to My placeUntil they 1aacknowledge their guilt and seek My face;In their affliction they will bseek Me earnestly.Or bear their punishmentIs 64:7-9; Jer 3:13, 14Ps 50:15; 78:34; Jer 2:27; Hos 3:5