Hosea 5

Great^{(i) 1} O ye prestes: heare this, take hede, O the housholde of Israel: gene care, O thou kyngly house, for it wer youre parte to se Iudgement done, but you are become a snare vnto Myzphah, and a spred net vnto the mount of Thabor. ² They kyll sacrifyces by heapes, And turne farre from the Lord, & I haue bene a rebuker of them all. ³ I know Ephraim well ynough, & Israel is not hyd fro me: for Ephraim is become an harlot: & Israel is defyled. ⁴ They are not mynded to turne vnto their God, for they haue an whorysh hert, so that they cannot knowe the Lord. ⁵ But the pryde of Israel will be rewarded him in hys face, yee, both Israell & Ephraim shall fall for theyr wickednesse, and Iuda wt them also. ⁶ They shall come with their shepe and bullockes to seke the Lorde, but they shall not fynde him, for he is gone from them. ⁷ As for the Lorde, they haue refused him, and brought vp bastarde children: a moneth therfore shall deuoure them with their porcyons. ⁸ Blowe with the shawmes at Gibea, and wt the trompet in Ramah, crye out at Bethauen vpon the yonsyde of BenIamin. ⁹ In the tyme of the plage shall Ephraim he layed waste, therfore dyd I faythfully warne the trybes of Israel. ¹⁰ Yet are the princes of Iuda become lyke them that remoue the landemarckes, therfore wyll I poure out my wrath vpon them lyke water. ¹¹ Ephraim is oppressed, & can haue no right of the lawe: for why? they folowe the doctrynes of vngodly men. ¹² Therfore will I be vnto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Iuda as a caterpyller. ¹³ When Ephraim sawe hys sycknesse, and Iuda hys dysease, Ephraim wente vnto Assur, and sent vnto kyng Iareb: yet coulde not he helpe you, ner ease you of your payne. ¹⁴ I am vnto Ephraim as a lyon, and as a lyons whelpe to the house of Iuda. Euen, I will spoyle them, & go my waye. I wyll take them wyth me, and no man shall rescue them. ¹⁵ I will go, and returne to my place, tyll they knowledge that they haue synned and seke me.