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UST HOS Chapter 5

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5 You priests, listen to this!

You people of Israel, pay attention!

You members of the royal court, listen carefully,

because I am going to judge you.

because you have enticed the people to sin at Mizpah,

and you have made them sin at Mount Tabor.

2 Those who have rebelled against me have killed many people,

so I will punish all of them.

3 I myself know all about you, people of Ephraim;

I can see everything that the people of Israel do.

Indeed, people of Ephraim, you have now been unfaithful to me by worshiping idols,

yes, the people of Israel have made themselves unacceptable to me.

4 They prefer to do evil things,

so they refuse to worship their God any more.

They do this because a strong desire to be physically and spiritually unfaithful is working among them,

and they do not know Yahweh.

5 The way that the people of Israel are so proud makes this clear to everyone.

The people of Israel and Ephraim will fail because of how much they have sinned,

and the people of Judah will fail with them.

6 They will bring their flocks and herds

and try to appease Yahweh by making sacrifices to him,

but he will not receive them

because he has removed himself from them.

7 Those nations have been like an unfaithful wife to Yahweh

because their people are like illegitimate children; they do not belong to Yahweh.

So now, when they bring their sacrifices to the New Moon Festival,

Yahweh will kill them

as they kill the animals that they bring to sacrifice.

8 Blow a horn in Gibeah;

blow a trumpet in Ramah!

Sound the alarm at Beth Aven!

The troops will follow behind you, Benjamin!

9 The people of Ephraim will become desolate

when I punish them.

I have declared to the tribes of Israel

what will certainly happen.

10 The leaders of Judah act like people who steal land by moving boundary markers.

Therefore, I will punish them abundantly.

11 I will cause the people of Ephraim to suffer greatly when I judge them

because they were determined to worship worthless idols.

12 So I will destroy the people of Ephraim, just as moths eat through wool clothing.

I will destroy the people of Judah, just as rot eats through wood.

13 Then the leaders of Ephraim realized that their nation was weak

and the leaders of Judah realized that their people were suffering.

Then the leaders of Ephraim sent messengers to the king of Assyria, asking for his help.

But that king cannot help Ephraim

or take away the suffering of Judah.

14 This is because I will be like a lion to the people of Ephraim;

I will be like a young lion to the people of Judah.

I will be the one who will cause soldiers to kill many of them, and I will stop caring for them.

I will cause soldiers to take them away,

and no one will rescue them.

15 Then I will leave them to themselves,

until they admit that they have sinned and that they need me to forgive them.

When they are greatly suffering,

then they will sincerely ask me to help them.

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