Hosea 5:1-15The Charge against the Princes1 “Hear these things, O priests, and pay attention, O house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king, because judgment is against you, because you have become a trap for the watchtower, and like a net stretching out for Tabor, 2 which those who hunt the prey planted firmly. I am your teacher. 3 I knew Ephraim, and Israel is not far from me, because now Ephraim has committed fornication; Israel has been defiled. 4 They did not give their counsels to turn toward their God, because a spirit of fornication is in them, and they did not recognize the Lord. 5 And the pride of Israel will be humbled to his face, and Israel and Ephraim will fall sick by their injustices, and Judah will also fall sick with them. 6 With sheep and calves they will go to seek out the Lord, and they will not find him, because he has turned away from them, 7 because they forsook the Lord, because foreign children were fathered by them. Now the mildew will devour them and their inheritances. 8 Trumpet with a war trumpet upon the hills. Peal it out upon the high places. Make proclamation in the house of Beth-aven, Benjamin was amazed. 9 Ephraim came to destruction in the day of reproof. I showed reliable things among the tribes of Israel. 10 The rulers of Judah became like those who alter boundaries. Against them I will pour out my fury like water. 11 Ephraim has oppressed his opponent, he has trampled the judgment, because he began to follow the vain things. 12 And I am like trouble to Ephraim, and like a goad to the house of Judah. 13 And Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his pain. And Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent ambassadors to King Jarim, and he was not able to heal you, and pain has not ceased from you. 14 Because I am like a panther to Ephraim, and like a lion to the house of Judah, and I will snatch them away, and I will go and take them, and there will be no one who rescues them. 15 I will go and return to my place until which time they are destroyed, and they will seek my face.”

Rick Brannan, Ken M. Penner et al., The Lexham English Septuagint, Second Edition (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2020), Ho 5:1–15.

Hosea 4The Charge against the Priests and the People1 “Hear a word of the Lord, O sons of Israel, because the Lord has a dispute with those who inhabit the land, because there is no truth or mercy or knowledge of God in the land. 2 A curse and a lie and murder and theft and adultery has been poured out upon the land, and bloodshed is mixed upon bloodshed. 3 On account of this, the land will lament and be diminished with all those that dwell in her, with the wild beasts of the field, and with the reptiles of the land, and with the birds of the heavens; even the fish of the sea will come to an end, 4 in order that nobody may either judge or reproach anybody. But my people will be like a priest who is opposed. 5 And he will be sick during the day, and a prophet will be sick with you. I have made your mother like night. 6 My people has become as if it possesses no knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, so I will reject you from being a priest to me. And you forgot the law of your God, so I will forget your children. 7 In accordance with their multitude, thus they sinned against me. I will turn their glory into dishonor. 8 They will eat the sins of my people, and they will take their souls by their injustices. 9 And just as the people will be, so also the priest, and I will avenge against him his ways, and I will repay him his counsels. 10 And they will eat and never be full; they prostituted themselves and did not prosper, because they neglected the Lord, to guard fornication. 11 The heart of my people received both wine and intoxicating drink. 12 They inquired with omens, and they would bring news to him with his rods. They were led astray by a spirit of fornication, and they have fornicated away from their God. 13 They would sacrifice upon the summits of the mountains, and make offerings upon the hills, under an oak and a white poplar and a shady tree, because it is good shelter. Because of this, your daughters will commit fornication, and your brides will commit adultery. 14 And I will not look upon your daughters when they prostitute themselves, and upon your brides when they commit adultery, because the men would mingle with the prostitutes, and make offerings with those who have been brought to an end, and the people who understand would entwine with a prostitute. 15 But you, O Israel, do not be ignorant, And you, O Judah, do not enter into Gilgal, and do not go up into the house of Beth-aven, and do not swear by the living Lord. 16 Because Israel used to be irritated like an irritated heifer. Now the Lord will tend them like a lamb in open space. 17 Ephraim, partaking in idols, set traps for himself. 18 He chose Canaanites; fornicating themselves, they were sexually immoral. They loved dishonor through its insolence. 19 You are a commotion of wind in its wings, and they will be put to shame by their altars.”

1 Corinthians 1:26-31 (NKJV)

26 For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. 27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; 28 and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, 29 that no flesh should glory in His presence. 30 But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God–and righteousness and sanctification and redemption– 31 that, as it is written, “He who glories, let him glory in the LORD.”