The People’s Apostasy Rebuked
Hear this, you priests!Pay attention, house of Israel!Listen, you of the house of the king!For the judgment applies to you,Because you have been a atrap at Mizpah,And a net spread out on Tabor.Hos 9:82 And the arebels have bgone deep in 1depravity,But I will discipline all of them.Or slaughterHos 9:15Is 29:15; Hos 4:2; 6:93 I aknow Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me;Because now, Ephraim, you have been unfaithful,Israel has defiled itself.Amos 3:2; 5:124 Their deeds will not allow themTo return to their God.For a aspirit of 1infidelity is within them,And they bdo not know the LORD.Or prostitutionHos 4:12Hos 4:6, 145 Moreover, the apride of Israel testifies against him,And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their wrongdoing;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 with the LORD,For they have given birth to 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,And 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 cmake known what is trustworthy.Is 28:1-4; Hos 9:11-17Is 37:3Is 46:10; Zech 1:610 The leaders of Judah have become like those who adisplace a boundary marker;On them I will bpour out My anger clike water.Deut 19:14; 27:17Ezek 7:8Ps 32:6; 93:3, 411 Ephraim is aoppressed, broken by judgment,bBecause he was determined to follow 1man’s command.Or with some ancient versions, nothingnessDeut 28:33Mic 6:1612 Therefore I am like a amoth to Ephraim,And like rottenness to the house of Judah.Ps 39:11; Is 51:813 When Ephraim saw his sickness,And Judah his 1sore,Ephraim then went to aAssyriaAnd sent word to 2bKing Jareb.But he is cunable to heal you,Or to cure you of your 3sore.Or ulcerOr another reading is the great king; or the contentious 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, yes I, will tear to pieces and go away,I will carry away, and there will be cno one to rescue.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 distress they will bsearch for Me.Or suffer their punishmentIs 64:7-9; Jer 3:13, 14Ps 50:15; 78:34; Jer 2:27; Hos 3:5