Hosea 5:11-13

The Voice

¹¹ Ephraim is oppressed, crushed by punishment,
because he insists on pursuing empty ways and trusting others to save him.

¹²    In My judgments I’m like a disease that devours Ephraim as a moth eats wool,
        like an infected wound to the people of Judah.
¹³    But when Ephraim saw how sick he was
        and Judah saw his open sore,
    Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to the great king for relief.
        But a foreign ruler can’t cure you; he can’t heal your sore.