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The Prophecy
of Osee 5
Hear ye this, O priests, and hearken, O ye house of
Israel, and give ear, O house of the king: for there
is a judgment against you, because you have been a snare
to them whom you should have watched over, and a net
spread upon Thabor.
And you have turned aside victims into the depth: and
I am, the teacher of them all.
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now
Ephraim hath committed fornication, Israel is defiled.
They will not set their thoughts to return to their
God: for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of
them, and they have not known the Lord.
And the pride of Israel shall answer in his face: and
Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquity, Juda
also shall fall with them.
With their flocks, and with their herds, they shall
go to seek the Lord, and shall not find him: he is withdrawn
from them.
They have transgressed against the Lord, for they have
begotten children that are strangers: now shall a month
devour them with their portions.
Blow ye the cornet in Gabaa, the trumpet in Rama: howl
ye in Bethaven, behind thy back, O Benjamin.
Ephraim shall be in desolation in the day of rebuke:
among the tribes of Israel I have shewn that which shall
surely be.
The princes of Juda are become as they that take up
the bound: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
Ephraim is under oppression, and broken in judgment:
because he began to go after filthiness.
And I will be like a moth to Ephraim: and like rottenness
to the house of Juda.
And Ephraim saw his sickness, and Juda his band: and
Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to the avenging
king: and he shall not be able to heal you, neither
shall he be able to take off the band from you.
For I will be like a lioness to Ephraim, and like a
lion's whelp to the house of Juda: I, I will catch,
and go: I will take away, and there is none that can
rescue.
I will go and return to my place: until you are consumed,
and seek my face.
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