New Living Translation (NLT)
Hosea 5
2 You have dug a deep pit to trap them at Acacia Grove. But I will settle with you for what you have done.
3 I know what you are like, O Ephraim. You cannot hide yourself from me, O Israel. You have left me as a prostitute leaves her husband; you are utterly defiled.
4 Your deeds won’t let you return to your God. You are a prostitute through and through, and you do not know the LORD.
5 “The arrogance of Israel testifies against her; Israel and Ephraim will stumble under their load of guilt. Judah, too, will fall with them.
6 When they come with their flocks and herds to offer sacrifices to the LORD, they will not find him, because he has withdrawn from them.
7 They have betrayed the honor of the LORD, bearing children that are not his. Now their false religion will devour them along with their wealth.
8 “Sound the alarm in Gibeah! Blow the trumpet in Ramah! Raise the battle cry in Beth-aven! Lead on into battle, O warriors of Benjamin!
9 One thing is certain, Israel: On your day of punishment, you will become a heap of rubble.
10 “The leaders of Judah have become like thieves. So I will pour my anger on them like a waterfall.
11 The people of Israel will be crushed and broken by my judgment because they are determined to worship idols.
12 I will destroy Israel as a moth consumes wool. I will make Judah as weak as rotten wood.
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