n°28 / Hosea 5 :

1Hear ye this, O priests ; and hearken, ye house of Israel ; and give ye ear, O house of the king ; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
2And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me : for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.
4They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God : for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.
5And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face : therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity : Judah also shall fall with them.
6They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD ; but they shall not find him ; he hath withdrawn himself from them.
7They have dealt treacherously against the LORD : for they have begotten strange children : now shall a month devour them with their portions.
8Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah : cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.
9Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke : among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
10The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound : therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
11Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
12Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
13When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb : yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
14For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah : I, even I, will tear and go away ; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
15I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face : in their affliction they will seek me early.