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| 5:1 | `Hear this, O priests, and attend, O house of Israel, And, O house of the king, give ear, For the judgment `is' for you, For, a snare ye have been on Mizpah, And a net spread out on Tabor. |
| 5:2 | And to slaughter sinners have gone deep, And I `am' a fetter to them all. |
| 5:3 | I have known Ephraim, And Israel hath not been hid from me, For now thou hast gone a-whoring, Ephraim, Defiled is Israel. |
| 5:4 | They give not up their habitual doings, To turn back unto their God, For a spirit of whoredoms `is' in their midst, And Jehovah they have not known. |
| 5:5 | And humbled hath been the excellency of Israel to his face, And Israel and Ephraim stumble by their iniquity, Stumbled also hath Judah with them. |
| 5:6 | With their flock and with their herd, They go to seek Jehovah, and do not find, He hath withdrawn from them. |
| 5:7 | Against Jehovah they dealt treacherously, For strange sons they have begotten, Now consume them doth a month `with' their portions. |
| 5:8 | Blow ye a cornet in Gibeah, a trumpet in Ramah, Shout, O Beth-Aven, after thee, O Benjamin. |
| 5:9 | Ephraim is for a desolation in a day of reproof, Among the tribes of Israel I have made known a sure thing. |
| 5:10 | Princes of Judah have been as those removing a border, On them I do pour out as water My wrath. |
| 5:11 | Oppressed is Ephraim, broken in judgment, When he pleased he went after the command. |
| 5:12 | And I `am' as a moth to Ephraim, And as a rotten thing to the house of Judah. |
| 5:13 | And see doth Ephraim his sickness, and Judah his wound, And Ephraim goeth unto Asshur, And sendeth unto a warlike king, And he is not able to give healing to you, Nor doth he remove from you a scar. |
| 5:14 | For I `am' as a lion to Ephraim, And as a young lion to the house of Judah, I -- I tear and go, I bear away, and there is no deliverer. |
| 5:15 | I go -- I turn back unto My place, Till that they are desolate, and have sought My face. In their distress they do seek Me speedily!' |
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| 5:1 | Heare this, o ye prestes: take hede, o thou housholde of Israel: geue eare, o thou kingly house: for this punyshment wil come vpon you, that are become a snare vnto Myspa, and a spred net vnto the mount of Thabor. |
| 5:2 | They kyll sacrifices by heapes, to begyle the people therwith: therfore wil I punysh them all. |
| 5:3 | I knowe Ephraim well ynough, & Israel is not hyd fro me: for Ephraim is become an harlot, and Israel is defyled. |
| 5:4 | They are not mynded to turne vnto their God, for they haue an whorish herte, so yt they can not knowe the LORDE. |
| 5:5 | But the pryde of Israel wil be rewarded him in his face, yee both Israel and Ephraim shal fall for their wickednesse, and Iuda with them also. |
| 5:6 | They shall come with their shepe & bullockes to seke ye LORDE, but they shal not fynde him, for he is gone from them. |
| 5:7 | As for the LORDE, they haue refused him, and brought vp bastarde children: a moneth therfore shall deuoure them with their porcions. |
| 5:8 | Blowe with the shawmes at Gabea, and with the trumpet in Rama, crie out at Bethauen vpon the yonside of Ben Iamin. |
| 5:9 | In the tyme of ye plage shal Ephraim be layed waist, therfore dyd I faithfully warne the trybes of Israel. |
| 5:10 | Yet are the prynces of Iuda become like them, that remoue the londemarckes, therfore wil I poure out my wrath vpon them like water. |
| 5:11 | Ephraim is oppressed, and can haue no right of the lawe: for why? they folowe ye doctrynes of men. |
| 5:12 | Therfore will I be vnto Ephraim as a moth, & to the house of Iuda as a caterpiller. |
| 5:13 | When Ephraim sawe his sicknesse, and Iuda his disease: Ephraim wente vnto Assur, and sent vnto kinge Iareb: yet coude not he helpe you, ner ease you of youre payne. |
| 5:14 | I am vnto Ephraim as a lyon, and as a lyons whelpe to the house of Iuda. Euen I, I wil spoyle them, & go my waye. I wil take them with me, and no man shal rescue them. |
| 5:15 | I wil go, and returne to my place, till they waxe faynt, and seke me. |
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