Hosea 5
1 to hear: hear this [the] priest and to listen house: household Israel and house: household [the] king to listen for to/for you [the] justice: judgement for snare to be to/for Mizpah and net to spread upon (Mount) Tabor
Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, house of Israel! Listen, members of the royal family!
2 and slaughtering rebellion be deep and I discipline to/for all their
Judgment belongs with you because you have been a snare set at Mizpah and a net spread out on Tabor. You dug a deep trap in Shittim, but I will punish you for all these things you have done.
3 I to know Ephraim and Israel not to hide from me for now to fornicate Ephraim to defile Israel
I know Ephraim very well, and Israel cannot hide from me, for now Ephraim is a prostitute and Israel is defiled.
4 not to give: allow deed their to/for to return: return to(wards) God their for spirit fornication in/on/with entrails: among their and [obj] LORD not to know
Your actions stop you from coming back to your God for a spirit of prostitution is within you and you do not know the Lord.
5 and to answer pride Israel in/on/with face his and Israel and Ephraim to stumble in/on/with iniquity: guilt their to stumble also Judah with them
Israel's pride speaks against them, right in the face. Israel and Ephraim will stumble because of their guilt, and Judah will stumble along with them.
6 in/on/with flock their and in/on/with cattle their to go: went to/for to seek [obj] LORD and not to find to rescue from them
They will go to seek the Lord with their herds and flocks, but they will not find him, for he has given up on them.
7 in/on/with LORD to act treacherously for son: child be a stranger to beget now to eat them month: new moon with portion their
They have been unfaithful to the Lord and have had children that are not his. Now the New Moon will destroy them along with their fields.
8 to blow trumpet in/on/with Gibeah trumpet in/on/with Ramah to shout Beth-aven Beth-aven after you Benjamin
Blow the horn in Gibeah! Sound the trumpet in Ramah! Shout an alarm in Beth-aven! Lead the way, Benjamin!
9 Ephraim to/for horror: destroyed to be in/on/with day rebuke in/on/with tribe Israel to know be faithful
Ephraim will be left desolate on the day of punishment. Among the tribes of Israel I will reveal what is the real truth.
10 to be ruler Judah like/as to remove border: boundary upon them to pour: pour like/as water fury my
The rulers of Judah have become thieves like those who illegally move boundaries. I will pour out my anger like water upon them.
11 to oppress Ephraim to crush justice: judgement for be willing to go: follow after command
The people of Ephraim are crushed, smashed to pieces in judgment because they were determined to follow human commands.
12 and I like/as moth to/for Ephraim and like/as rottenness to/for house: household Judah
I am like a maggot to Ephraim, and like something rotten to the people of Judah.
13 and to see: see Ephraim [obj] sickness his and Judah [obj] wound his and to go: went Ephraim to(wards) Assyria and to send: depart to(wards) king `great` and he/she/it not be able to/for to heal to/for you and not to cure from you wound
When Ephraim saw how sick they were, and Judah saw how wounded they were, Ephraim turned to the great king of Assyria for help, but he could not heal them or cure their wounds.
14 for I like/as lion to/for Ephraim and like/as lion to/for house: household Judah I I to tear and to go: went to lift: bear and nothing to rescue
For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, like a fierce lion to the people of Judah. I will come and tear them to pieces, and carry them off, and no one will be able to rescue them.
15 to go: continue to return: return to(wards) place my till which be guilty and to seek face my in/on/with distress to/for them to seek me
Then I will leave and return to where I came from until they acknowledge their wrongs, and in their distress they will seek my face and beg for my help.”
