Apostasy – The Result

#8 of 11

in the series Hosea

⁸ “Blow the ram’s horn in Gibeah,
The trumpet in Ramah!
Cry aloud at Beth Aven,
‘Look behind you, O Benjamin!’
⁹ Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke;
Among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure.

¹⁰ “The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark;
I will pour out My wrath on them like water.
¹¹ Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment,
Because he willingly walked by human precept.
¹² Therefore I will be to Ephraim like a moth,
And to the house of Judah like rottenness.

¹³ “When Ephraim saw his sickness,
And Judah saw his wound,
Then Ephraim went to Assyria
And sent to King Jareb;
Yet he cannot cure you,
Nor heal you of your wound.
¹⁴ For I will be like a lion to Ephraim,
And like a young lion to the house of Judah.
I, even I, will tear them and go away;
I will take them away, and no one shall rescue.
¹⁵ I will return again to My place
Till they ^[a]acknowledge their offense.
Then they will seek My face;
In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”