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    Hosea 5

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    Ephraim sees sickness, Judah a wound, and Assyria receives the medical call—only to be told that the great king cannot heal either.

    Snares, flocks, and the hungry New Moonvv. 1–7

    The priests, Israel, and the royal house are summoned to hear judgment. Mizpah has become a snare and Tabor a net; the rebels are deep in slaughter, while Ephraim and Israel are exposed as plainly as a badly hidden secret. Their deeds have made return impossible, and even Judah stumbles with them. They bring flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but the search ends with the LORD withdrawn. Then the New Moon appears, rather unexpectedly, as something with an appetite for people and land.

    Trumpets, boundary stones, and a useless physicianvv. 8–14

    The alarm runs through Gibeah, Ramah, Beth-aven, and Benjamin. Ephraim is declared destined for waste, while Judah’s princes are compared to men shifting boundary stones—a small movement with remarkably large consequences. Ephraim follows worthless idols and is crushed in judgment; the LORD is a moth to Ephraim and decay to Judah, then a lion and a young lion. Ephraim sees sickness and Judah a wound, so Ephraim turns to Assyria and sends to the great king. The proposed healer, however, cannot cure the sickness or heal the wound.

    The retreatv. 15

    After tearing them away, the LORD returns to His place. The silence is not explained further; the next movement belongs to them, when they admit their guilt and seek His face in their affliction.

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    1. Hos 5:1“Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O royal house! For this judgment is against you because you have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor.

    2. Hos 5:2The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I will chastise them all.

    3. Hos 5:3I know all about Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me. For now, O Ephraim, you have turned to prostitution; Israel is defiled.

    4. Hos 5:4Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the LORD.

    5. Hos 5:5Israel’s arrogance testifies against them; Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; even Judah stumbles with them.

    6. Hos 5:6They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.

    7. Hos 5:7They have been unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the New Moon will devour them along with their land.

    8. Hos 5:8Blow the ram’s horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah; raise the battle cry in Beth-aven: Lead on, O Benjamin!

    9. Hos 5:9Ephraim will be laid waste on the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel I proclaim what is certain.

    10. Hos 5:10The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary stones; I will pour out My fury upon them like water.

    11. Hos 5:11Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols.

    12. Hos 5:12So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.

    13. Hos 5:13When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.

    14. Hos 5:14For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them to pieces and then go away. I will carry them off where no one can rescue them.

    15. Hos 5:15Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 15Isaiah 26:16O LORD, they sought You in their distress; when You disciplined them, they poured out a quiet prayer.
    • 15Jeremiah 29:12–14Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
    • 1Hosea 9:8The prophet is Ephraim’s watchman, along with my God, yet the snare of the fowler lies on all his paths. Hostility is in the house of his God!
    • 14Psalms 7:2or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
    • 14Micah 5:8Then the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through, with no one to rescue them.
    • 15Psalms 78:34When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.
    • 15Deuteronomy 4:29–31But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
    • 4Hosea 4:12My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.
    • 5Hosea 7:10Israel’s arrogance testifies against them, yet they do not return to the LORD their God; despite all this, they do not seek Him.
    • 6John 7:34You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”
    • 6Proverbs 1:28Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
    • 13Hosea 7:11So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove—calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.
    • 13Jeremiah 30:12For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.
    • 15Leviticus 26:40–42But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—
    • 2Hosea 9:15All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.
    • 2Isaiah 29:15Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”

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