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title: "Commentary on Hosea"
author: "John Calvin"
translator: "John Owen"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Commentaries"
section: 77 of 86
url: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-hosea/77/
cite: "John Calvin, tr. John Owen, Commentary on Hosea, section 77. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-hosea/77/"
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# Commentary on Hosea

*John Calvin, tr. John Owen*

Calvin on Hosea, the prophet of a faithful God and an unfaithful people.

## 77. Chapter 5

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-hosea/77/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-hosea/77/#p-N

[¶0] 1 Hear this, ye priests, and attend, ye house of Israel, And ye house of the king, give ear, — For to you is judgment; For a snare have you been in Mizpah, And a net expanded over Tabor.

[¶1] 2 And turning aside in sacrificing they are deeply fixed; Yet a correction have I been to them all.

[¶2] 3 I have known Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; For thou Ephraim art wanton, polluted is Israel.

[¶3] 4 They apply not their endeavors to turn to their God; For the spirit of wantonness is in the midst of them. And Jehovah they have not known

[¶4] 5 And testify does the pride of Israel to his face: Israel then and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquity, Fall also shall Judah with them.

[¶5] 6 With their sheep and their herds shall they go to seek Jehovah; But shall not find him: he has separated himself from them.

[¶6] 7 With Jehovah have they dealt perfidiously; For strange children have they begotten: Now devour them shall a month, together with their portions.

[¶7] 8 Sound the cornet in Gibeah, blow the trumpet in Ramah, Blow also the horn in Bethaven after thee, Benjamin: —

[¶8] 9 Ephraim shall be a waste in the day of correction; Among the tribes of Israel have I taught this truth.

[¶9] 10 The princes of Judah have been as those who remove the boundary; On them will I pour, as waters, my fury.

[¶10] 11 Exposed to plunder has Ephraim been, broken by judgment; For he willingly walked after the commandments.

[¶11] 12 And as a moth have I been to Ephraim, And as a worm to the house of Judah;

[¶12] 13 And Ephraim saw his disease, and Judah his wound; Ephraim went to Assur, and sent to king Jareb: Yet he could not heal you, nor will he cure you of your wound;

[¶13] 14 For as a lion shall I be to Ephraim, And as a young lion to the house of Judah: I — I will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall deliver. —

[¶14] 15 I will go, I will return to my place, Until they confess that they have sinned, and seek my face: When they shall have affliction, they will seek me: —