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Chapter 5
Priests, nobles and king are the ruin of the nation
1
Listen to this, priests, attend, House of Israel, listen, royal household, you who are responsible for justice, for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net outspread on Tabor.
2
They are entrenched in their deceitfulness and so I am going to punish them all.
3
I know all about Ephraim, Israel has no secrets for me; yes Ephraim, you have played the whore, Israel has defiled himself.
4
Their deeds do not allow them to return to their God, since a prostituting spirit possesses them; they do not know Yahweh.
5
The arrogance of Israelis his own accuser, the iniquity of Ephraim knocks him down, and down comes Judah with him.
6
Though they go in search of Yahweh with their sheep and oxen, they do not find him; for he has withdrawn from them.
7
They have proved unfaithful to Yahweh, they have fathered bastards, and now the destroyer will devour them, them and their estates.
The brothers’ war
8
Sound the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah, give the alarm at Beth-aven, call Benjamin to arms!
9
Ephraim shall be laid waste when the day comes for punishment; I pronounce certain doom for the tribes of Israel[*a].
10
The leaders of Judah are like men who displace the boundary mark; I mean to pour my anger out on them in a flood.
11
Ephraim is an oppressor, he tramples on justice, so set is he on his pursuit of nothingness.
12
Very well, I myself will be the moth of Ephraim, the canker of the House of Judah.
The folly of foreign alliances
13
Ephraim has seen how sick he is and Judah the extent of his wound, so Ephraim has turned to Assyria, Judah has appealed to the Great King[*b]; but he has no power to cure you nor to heal your wound.
14
For I mean to be like a lion to Ephraim, like a young lion to the House of Judah; I, yes I, will tear to pieces, then go my way, I will carry off my prey, and no one can snatch it from me.
Yahweh abandons his people
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Yes, I am going to return to my dwelling place until they confess their guilt and seek my face; they will search for me in their misery.
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