### Douay Rheims Bible

Hosea 4

## The Book of Hosea

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| # Chapter 5
#### 1 | Hear ye this, O priests, and hearken, O ye house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king: for there is a judgment against you, because you have been a snare to them whom you should have watched over, and a net spread upon Thabor.
#### 2 | And you have turned aside victims into the depth: and I am, the teacher of them all.
#### 3 | I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now Ephraim hath committed fornication, Israel is defiled.
#### 4 | They will not set their thoughts to return to their God: for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.
#### 5 | And the pride of Israel shall answer in his face: and Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquity, Juda also shall fall with them.
#### 6 | With their flocks, and with their herds, they shall go to seek the Lord, and shall not find him: he is withdrawn from them.
#### 7 | They have transgressed against the Lord, for they have begotten children that are strangers: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
#### 8 | Blow ye the cornet in Gabaa, the trumpet in Rama: howl ye in Bethaven, behind thy back, O Benjamin.
#### 9 | Ephraim shall be in desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel I have shewn that which shall surely be.
#### 10 | The princes of Juda are become as they that take up the bound: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
#### 11 | Ephraim is under oppression, and broken in judgment: because he began to go after filthiness.
#### 12 | And I will be like a moth to Ephraim: and like rottenness to the house of Juda.
#### 13 | And Ephraim saw his sickness, and Juda his band: and Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to the avenging king: and he shall not be able to heal you, neither shall he be able to take off the band from you.
#### 14 | For I will be like a lioness to Ephraim, and like a lion's whelp to the house of Juda: I, I will catch, and go: I will take away, and there is none that can rescue.
#### 15 | I will go and return to my place: until you are consumed, and seek my face.

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