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Hosea 5

1 Against the Priests and rulers of Israél 13 The help of man is in vain.
1.O ye Priests, hear this, and hearken ye, ô house of Israél, and give ye ear, ô house of the King: for judgement is toward you, because you have been a asnare on Mizpáh, and a net spread upon Tabór.
2.Yet they were profound, to decline to bslaughter, though I have been a erebuker of them all.
3.I know dEphráim, and Israél is not hid from me: for now, ô Ephráim thou art become an harlot, and Israél is defiled.
4.They will not give their minds to turn unto their God: for the spirit of fornication is in the middes of them, and they have not knowen the Lord.
5.And the epride of Israél doeth testify to his face, therefore shal Israél and Ephráim fall in their iniquity: Judáh also shal fall with them.
6.They shal go with their sheep, and with their bullocks to seek the Lord; but they shal not find him: for he hath withdrawn him self from them.
7.They have transgressed against the Lord: for they have begotten fstrange children: now shal ga month devour them with their portions.
8.Blow ye the trumpet in Gibeáh, and the shaume in Ramáh: cry out at Beth-áven, after thee, ô hBenjamin.
9.Ephráim shalbe desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israél have I caused to iknow the truth.
10.The princes of Judáh were like them that rremove the bonds: therefore will I pour out my wrath upon them like water.
11.Ephráim is oppressed, and broken in judgement, because he willingly walked after the lcommandment.
12.Therefore will I be unto Ephráim as a moth, and to the house of Judáh as a rottenness.
13.When Ephráim saw his sickness, and Judáh his wound, then went Ephráim unto mAsshúr, and sent unto King nJaréb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
14.For I will be unto Ephráim as a lion, and as a lion’s whelp to the house of Judáh: I, even I will spoil, and go away: I will take away, and none shall rescue it.
15.I will go, and return to my place, till they acknowledge their faute, and seek me · in their affliction they will seek me diligently.

Notes

1-a.
The Priests and princes caught the poor people in their snares as the fowlers did the birds, in these two high mountains.
2-b.
Notwithstanding they seemed to be given altogether to holiness, and to sacrifices, which here he calls slaughter in contempt.
2-c.
Though I admonished them continually by my Prophets.
3-d.
They boasted themselves not only to be Israelites, but also Ephraimites, because their King Jeroboam came of that tribe.
5-e.
Meaning, their contemning of all admonitions.
7-f.
That is their children are degenerate, so that there is no hope in them.
7-g.
Their destruction is not far off.
8-h.
That is, all Israel comprehended under this part, signifying that the Lord’s plagues should pursue them from place to place till they were destroyed.
9-i.
By the success they shall know that I have surely determined this.
10-k.
They have turned up side down all political order, and all manner of religion.
11-l.
To wit, after King Jeroboam’s commandment and did not rather follow God.
13-m.
Instead of seeking for remedy at God’s hand.
13-n.
Who was King of the Assyrians.