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CHAPTER 5
Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for
judgment
is
toward you, because ye 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, thou 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 L
ORD
.
5
And the pride of Israel
doth 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 L
ORD
; but they shall
not find
him;
he hath withdrawn himself from them.
7
They have dealt treacherously against the
L
ORD
: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
8
Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah,
and
the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud
at
Beth-aven, 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.
CHAPTER 6
Come, and let us return unto the L
ORD
: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and
he will bind us up.
2
After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we
shall live in his sight.
3
Then shall we know,
if
we follow on to know the L
ORD
: his going forth is
prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter
and
former rain unto
the earth.
4
O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness
is
as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
5
Therefore have I hewed
them
by the
prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments
are as
the light
that
goeth forth.
6
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt
offerings.
7
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously
against me.
8
Gilead
is
a city of them that work iniquity,
and is
polluted with blood.
9
And as troops
of robbers wait for a man,
so
the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit
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