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Oséias 5

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1Ouvi isto, ó sacerdotes, e escutae, ó casa de Israel, e escutae, ó casa do rei, porque a vós toca este juizo, visto que fostes um laço para Mispah, e rede estendida sobre Tabor.

2E, matando sacrificios errados, abaixaram até ao profundo; mas eu serei a correcção de todos elles.

3Eu conheço a Ephraim, e Israel não se me esconde; porque agora tens fornicado, ó Ephraim, e se contaminou Israel.

4Não querem ordenar as suas acções afim de voltarem para o seu Deus, porque o espirito das fornicações está no meio d'elles, e não conhecem ao Senhor

5A soberba de Israel testificará pois no seu rosto: e Israel e Ephraim cairão pela sua injustiça, e Judah cairá juntamente com elles.

6Então irão com as suas ovelhas, e com as suas vaccas, para buscarem ao Senhor, mas não o acharão: elle se retirou d'elles.

7Aleivosamente se houveram contra o Senhor, porque geraram filhos estranhos: agora a lua nova os consumirá com as suas porções.

8Tocae a buzina em Gibeath, a trombeta em Rama: gritae altamente em Beth-aven; após ti, a Benjamin.

9Ephraim será para assolação no dia do castigo: entre as tribus de Israel manifestei o que certo está.

10Os principes de Judah foram feitos como os que traspassam os limites: derramarei pois o meu furor sobre elles como agua.

11Ephraim opprimido e quebrantado é no juizo, porque assim quiz: andou após o mandamento.

12Portanto a Ephraim serei como a traça, e á casa de Judah como a podridão.

13Vendo pois Ephraim a sua enfermidade, e Judah a sua inchação, subiu Ephraim á Assyria e enviou ao rei Jareb; mas elle não poderá sarar-vos, nem vos curará a inchação.

14Porque a Ephraim serei como um leão, e como um leãosinho á casa de Judah!: eu, eu o despedaçarei, e ir-me-hei embora; eu levarei, e não haverá quem livre

15Andarei, e tornarei ao meu logar, até que se reconheçam culpados e busquem a minha face: estando elles angustiados, de madrugada me buscarão.

📖 Chapter study

Summary

Judgment extends to the priests, the people, and the royal house; Israel and Judah are accused of unfaithfulness and of seeking help in foreign alliances (Assyria) instead of in God.

Explanation

Here the criticism turns specifically against the political and religious leaders who should have guided the people back to God but instead became 'a snare' and 'a net' that trap them ever deeper in sin. The mention of king Jareb (an ironic nickname for the Assyrian king, meaning something like 'great contender') shows the futility of seeking security in human powers instead of in God. The final phrase, that they 'will seek my face' when in distress, reveals the biblical pattern that it is often crisis that brings us back to God. Today's application is to examine whom we truly trust when we face hardship.

Fun facts

  • Blowing the trumpet (shofar) in Gibeah and Ramah (v.8) was the war alarm signal used in Israel — the prophet announces that the alarm should sound because of the people's own sin.
  • 'Ephraim' is used throughout the book as a synonym for the Northern Kingdom, because it was the largest and most influential of the ten tribes that made up Israel.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. Oséias 5:1God summons the priests, the people, and the royal family to hear the judgment: they became hunting traps at Mizpah and on Mount Tabor, places that should have been only for worship.
  2. Oséias 5:2By offering twisted sacrifices, they sank deeper and deeper into corruption; so God Himself will be the one to correct them all.
  3. Oséias 5:3God is not deceived: He knows Ephraim and knows about the unfaithfulness that has contaminated all of Israel, even if the people try to hide.
  4. Oséias 5:4The people do not even try to change their lives, because idolatry ("the spirit of whoredoms") has already taken over their hearts to the point that they no longer recognize the Lord.
  5. Oséias 5:5Israel's arrogance is visible on the people's own face; the fall caused by injustice will not strike Israel and Ephraim alone, it will drag Judah down with them.
  6. Oséias 5:6Even bringing the usual sacrifices (sheep and cattle), they will not find God, because He had already withdrawn from them beforehand.
  7. Oséias 5:7Betrayal against the Lord for begetting "strange children" (the fruit of mixed worship); even their own religious celebrations, like the new moon, will turn against them.
  8. Oséias 5:8Blowing the cornet at Gibeah and the trumpet at Ramah was the alarm system of the time — one city warning another that danger, probably a war between Israel and Judah, was coming.
  9. Oséias 5:9Ephraim will be devastated on the day of punishment — God makes it clear, before all the tribes of Israel, that this is the certain sentence.
  10. Oséias 5:10The leaders of Judah are also accused of "removing the bound" (stealing land, committing injustice), which brings God's wrath down on them like a flood.
  11. Oséias 5:11Ephraim is being oppressed in judgment because he chose, of his own will, to follow a wrong path instead of God's true commandment.
  12. Oséias 5:12God compares Himself to a moth and to rot — not a sudden attack, but a slow, internal corrosion that destroys Ephraim and Judah from within.
  13. Oséias 5:13"King Jareb" is probably not a proper name but a mocking nickname for the king of Assyria; the text shows Ephraim seeking Assyrian military help instead of seeking the Lord — an alliance that will cost dearly.
  14. Oséias 5:14God compares Himself to a lion tearing its prey apart, a shocking image used to make clear that the announced punishment comes from Him, not only from enemy nations.
  15. Oséias 5:15God promises to withdraw until the people acknowledge their own guilt; only in distress, at daybreak, will they finally seek Him with their whole heart.

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