Part 3

28:004:016 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

28:004:017 Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.

28:004:018 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.

28:004:019 The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

28:005:001 Hear 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.

28:005:002 And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.

28:005:003 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.

28:005:004 They 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.

28:005:005 And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity: Judah also shall fall with them.

28:005:006 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.

28:005:007 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.

28:005:008 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.

28:005:009 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.

28:005:010 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

28:005:011 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.

28:005:012 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

28:005:013 When 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.

28:005:014 For 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.

28:005:015 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

28:006:001 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

28:006:002 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

28:006:003 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

28:006:004 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

28:006:005 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.

28:006:006 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

28:006:007 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

28:006:008 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

28:006:009 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.