Hosea 5:3

The Priests Are A Snare

² they dug a deep pit [in] Shittim, but I [am] a punishment for all of them. ³ I myself know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; because now you have played the whore, Ephraim-- Israel is defiled. ⁴ Their deeds do not permit them to return them to God. Because a spirit of whoredom [is] in their midst, they do not know Yahweh.

Played the Harlot

Ephraim

Israel

Amos 3:2

"You only have I {chosen} of all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

Genesis 48:19-20

But his father refused and said, "I know, my son; I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great, but his younger brother shall be greater than him, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations."

Deuteronomy 33:17

[As] the firstborn of his ox, majesty {belongs to him}, and his horns [are] [the] horns of a wild ox; with them he drives people together, and they [are] the myriads of Ephraim, and they [are] the thousands of Manasseh."

1 Kings 12:26-33

Then Jeroboam {said to himself}, "Now the kingdom will return to the house of David

1 Kings 14:14-16

Yahweh will raise up a king for himself over Israel who will even now cut off the house of Jeroboam this day.

Isaiah 7:5

Because Aram has plotted evil against you [with] Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying,

Isaiah 7:8-9

For the head of Aram [is] Damascus, and the head of Damascus [is] Rezin, and in sixty-five years from now Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people.

Isaiah 7:17

"Yahweh will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your ancestor days that have not come since [the] day Ephraim departed from Judah: the king of Assyria."

Ezekiel 23:5-21

And Oholah prostituted [herself] {while she was still mine}, and she lusted for her lovers, for Assyria [who was] nearby,

Hosea 4:17-18

Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.

Hosea 5:9

Ephraim will be a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I will reveal what is true.

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed [in] judgment, because he was determined to go after filth.

Hosea 5:13

And [when] Ephraim saw his illness, and Judah his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria, he sent to the great king. But he was unable to cure you and heal your wound.

Hosea 6:4

What will I do with you, Ephraim? What will I do with you, Judah? Your love [is] like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes away early in the morning.

Hosea 8:11

When Ephraim multiplied altars to expiate sins, they became to him altars to sin [on].

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim herds [the] wind and [is] pursuing [the] east wind all day long; he multiplies deception and violence and he {makes a treaty with Assyria}, and oil is brought to Egypt.

Hosea 13:1

When Ephraim spoke, [there was] terror; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.

Amos 5:12

For I know your transgressions [are] many and your sins [are] numerous, [you] foes of [the] righteous, those who take a bribe, and {those who} push aside [the] poor [ones] in the gate!

Hebrews 4:13

And no creature is hidden in the sight of him, but all [things are] naked and laid bare to the eyes of him to whom {we must give our account}.

Revelation 3:15

'I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot!