Hosea 5:1-15
Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, you Israelites! Listen, royal house! This judgment is against you: You have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor.
Israel’s arrogance testifies against them; the Israelites, even Ephraim, stumble in their sin; Judah also stumbles with them.
They are unfaithful to the Lord; they give birth to illegitimate children. When they celebrate their New Moon feasts, he will devour their fields.
Judah’s leaders are like those who move boundary stones. I will pour out my wrath on them like a flood of water. Ephraim is oppressed, trampled in judgment, intent on pursuing idols.
“When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his sores, then Ephraim turned to Assyria, and sent to the great king for help. But he is not able to cure you, not able to heal your sores.
For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, like a great lion to Judah. I will tear them to pieces and go away; I will carry them off, with no one to rescue them. Then I will return to my lair until they have borne their guilt and seek my face— in their misery they will earnestly seek me.”
A generation has grown up to who God is a stranger. The alarm is sounded on Judah's borders, for Judah shares the sin to which Israel has become addicted. Not even the great king of Assyria can save them from God's judgment.
These verses probably refer to the Israel/Syria war against Judah. Verse 15 expresses God's longing. Will suffering achieve what prosperity has not, serving, as C.S. Lewis puts it, as God's 'megaphone to rouse a deaf world'?
Why?
The judgment has come upon Israel and Judah for their sins. especially the nobles, the kings and the priests.
God knows everything has been done in his people, no one can hide from the Lord.
But God's love is still in his people, after the anger, God has mercy poured on his people.
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Chap4 責備祭司，Chap 5審判祭司
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How?
Great is the Lord, his love and righteousness endure forever! May my mind and my heart be with the Lord forever!
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