---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Hosea from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 5
verse_count: 15
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Hosea, chap. 5, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Hosea 5

*God's judgments against Israel for their manifold sins.*

**1** 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.
**2** And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
**3** I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.
**4** 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.
**5** 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.
**6** They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the Lord: but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.
**7** They have dealt treacherously against the Lord: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
**8** Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah; cry aloud at Beth-aven, after thee, O Benjamin.
**9** Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke; among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
**10** The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound; therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
**11** Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
**12** Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
**13** 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.
**14** I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
**15** 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.