5: 1 Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, O house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king; for ⁴¹unto you pertaineth the judgment; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
⁴¹Or, against you is the judgment;

5: 2 And the revolters are gone deep ⁴²in making slaughter; but I am a ⁴³rebuker of them all.
⁴²Or, in corruption;
⁴³Hb. rebuke

5: 3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, O Ephraim, thou hast played the harlot, Israel is defiled.
5: 4 ⁴⁴Their doings will not suffer them to turn unto their God; for the spirit of whoredom is ⁴⁵within them, and they know not Jehovah.
⁴⁴Or, They will not frame their doings to turn
⁴⁵Or, in the midst of them,

5: 5 And the ⁴⁶pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity; Judah also shall stumble with them.
⁴⁶Or, excellency

5: 6 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah; but they shall not find him: he hath withdrawn himself from them.
5: 7 They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah; for they have ⁴⁷borne strange children: now shall ⁴⁸the new moon devour them with their ⁴⁹fields.
⁴⁷Or, begotten
⁴⁸Or, a month devour them with their fields.
⁴⁹Or, portions.

5: 8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: sound an alarm at Beth-aven; ⁵⁰behind thee, O Benjamin.
⁵⁰Or, After thee, Benjamin!

5: 9 Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
5: 10 The princes of Judah are like them that remove a landmark: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
5: 11 Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; because he was content to walk after man’s command.
5: 12 ⁵¹Therefore am I unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
⁵¹Or, And I was unto Ephraim as a moth,

5: 13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to Assyria, and sent to ⁵²a king that should contend: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.
⁵²Or, king Jareb: But see footnote on ch. 10:6.

5: 14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and there shall be none to deliver.
5: 15 I will go and return to my place, till they ⁵³acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me ⁵⁴earnestly.
⁵³Or, have borne their guilt,
⁵⁴Or, earnestly, saying,