The People’s Apostasy Rebuked
Hear this, O priests!Give heed, O house of Israel!Listen, O house of the king!For the judgment applies to you,For you have been a asnare at MizpahAnd a net spread out on Tabor.Hos 9:82 The arevolters have 1bgone deep in depravity,But I will chastise all of them.Or waded deep in slaughterHos 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 the LORD.Hos 4:12Hos 4:6, 145 Moreover, the apride of Israel testifies 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD,For they have borne 1billegitimate children.Now the cnew moon will devour them with their 2land.Lit strangeLit portionsIs 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.Sound an alarm at Beth-aven:“cBehind you, Benjamin!”Joel 2:1Hos 9:9; 10:9Judg 5:149 Ephraim will become a adesolation in the bday of rebuke;Among the tribes of Israel I cdeclare what is sure.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 1follow man’s command.Or with 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 When Ephraim saw his sickness,And Judah his 1wound,Then Ephraim went to aAssyriaAnd sent to 2bKing Jareb.But he is cunable to heal you,Or to cure you of your 3wound.Or ulcerOr the avenging king or 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 earnestly bseek Me.Or bear their punishmentIs 64:7-9; Jer 3:13, 14Ps 50:15; 78:34; Jer 2:27; Hos 3:5