Hosea Capítulo 5
Hosea draws on his conjugal experience, in which he was dedicated to his wife, even though he knew she was unfaithful, to illustrate the adultery Israel had committed against God and to show how God's faithful love for his people never changes.
American King James Version
5 : 1 Hear you this, O priests; and listen, you house of Israel; and give you ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because you have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.
5 : 2 And the rebels are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
5 : 3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, you commit prostitution, and Israel is defiled.
5 : 4 They will not frame their doings to turn to their God: for the spirit of prostitutions is in the middle of them, and they have not known the LORD.
5 : 5 And the pride of Israel does testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity: Judah also shall fall with them.
5 : 6 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them.
5 : 7 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
5 : 8 Blow you the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after you, O Benjamin.
5 : 9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
5 : 10 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath on them like water.
5 : 11 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
5 : 12 Therefore will I be to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
5 : 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.
5 : 14 For I will be to 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.
5 : 15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.