I know [a]Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou art become an harlot, and Israel is defiled.

They will not give their minds to turn unto their God: for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.

And the [b]pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity: Judah also shall fall with them.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 5:3 They boasted themselves not only to be Israelites, but also Ephraimites, because their king Jeroboam came of that tribe.
  2. Hosea 5:5 Meaning, their contemning of all admonitions.

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