Hosea 5

v. 4 - 7 & 14 - 15
"The wicked things that the people have done
keep them from returning to their God.
They have a spirit of prostitution,
and they don't know the Lord.
The people of Israel's arrogance testifies against them.
Israel and Ephraim stumble because of their sins,
and Judah stumbles with them.
They go with their sheep and their cattle to search for the Lord,
but they can't find him.
He has left them.
They have been unfaithful to the Lord,
because their children do not belong to him.
Now their New Moon Festivals will devour them and their fields.

I will be like a lion to Ephraim
and like a young lion to the nation of Judah.
I will carry them off, and no one will rescue them.
I will go back to my place until they admit that they are guilty.
Then they will search for me.

In their distress they will eagerly look for me."