Os 4-6 (King James)

¹ Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
² By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
³ Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
⁴ Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
⁵ Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.
⁶ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
⁷ As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
⁸ They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
⁹ And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
¹⁰ For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.
¹¹ Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
¹² My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
¹³ They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
¹⁴ I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
¹⁵ Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.
¹⁶ For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
¹⁷ Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
¹⁸ Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
¹⁹ The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

Osée 5

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 Bethaven, 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 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: 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.

Osée 6

¹ Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
² After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
³ Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
⁴ O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
⁵ Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
⁶ For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
⁷ But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
⁸ Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
⁹ And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
¹⁰ I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
¹¹ Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

Os 4-6 (Vulgate)

¹ [Audite verbum Domini, filii Israël, quia judicium Domino cum habitatoribus terræ : non est enim veritas, et non est misericordia, et non est scientia Dei in terra.
² Maledictum, et mendacium, et homicidium, et furtum, et adulterium inundaverunt, et sanguis sanguinem tetigit.
³ Propter hoc lugebit terra, et infirmabitur omnis qui habitat in ea, in bestia agri, et in volucre cæli ; sed et pisces maris congregabuntur.
⁴ Verumtamen unusquisque non judicet, et non arguatur vir : populus enim tuus sicut hi qui contradicunt sacerdoti.
⁵ Et corrues hodie, et corruet etiam propheta tecum. Nocte tacere feci matrem tuam.
⁶ Conticuit populus meus, eo quod non habuerit scientiam : quia tu scientiam repulisti, repellam te, ne sacerdotio fungaris mihi ; et oblita es legis Dei tui, obliviscar filiorum tuorum et ego.
⁷ Secundum multitudinem eorum sic peccaverunt mihi : gloriam eorum in ignominiam commutabo.
⁸ Peccata populi mei comedent, et ad iniquitatem eorum sublevabunt animas eorum.
⁹ Et erit sicut populus, sic sacerdos ; et visitabo super eum vias ejus, et cogitationes ejus reddam ei.
¹⁰ Et comedent, et non saturabuntur ; fornicati sunt, et non cessaverunt : quoniam Dominum dereliquerunt in non custodiendo.
¹¹ Fornicatio, et vinum, et ebrietas auferunt cor.
¹² Populus meus in ligno suo interrogavit, et baculus ejus annuntiavit ei ; spiritus enim fornicationum decepit eos, et fornicati sunt a Deo suo.
¹³ Super capita montium sacrificabant, et super colles accendebant thymiama ; subtus quercum, et populum, et terebinthum, quia bona erat umbra ejus ; ideo fornicabuntur filiæ vestræ, et sponsæ vestræ adulteræ erunt.
¹⁴ Non visitabo super filias vestras cum fuerint fornicatæ, et super sponsas vestras cum adulteraverint, quoniam ipsi cum meretricibus conversabantur, et cum effeminatis sacrificabant ; et populus non intelligens vapulabit.
¹⁵ Si fornicaris tu, Israël, non delinquat saltem Juda ; et nolite ingredi in Galgala, et ne ascenderitis in Bethaven, neque juraveritis : Vivit Dominus !
¹⁶ Quoniam sicut vacca lasciviens declinavit Israël ; nunc pascet eos Dominus, quasi agnum in latitudine.
¹⁷ Particeps idolorum Ephraim : dimitte eum.
¹⁸ Separatum est convivium eorum ; fornicatione fornicati sunt : dilexerunt afferre ignominiam protectores ejus.
¹⁹ Ligavit eum spiritus in alis suis, et confundentur a sacrificiis suis.]

Osée 5

¹ [Audite hoc, sacerdotes, et attendite, domus Israël, et domus regis, auscultate : quia vobis judicium est, quoniam laqueus facti estis speculationi, et rete expansum super Thabor.
² Et victimas declinastis in profundum ; et ego eruditor omnium eorum.
³ Ego scio Ephraim, et Israël non est absconditus a me : quia nunc fornicatus est Ephraim ; contaminatus est Israël.
⁴ Non dabunt cogitationes suas ut revertantur ad Deum suum, quia spiritus fornicationum in medio eorum, et Dominum non cognoverunt.
⁵ Et respondebit arrogantia Israël in facie ejus, et Israël et Ephraim ruent in iniquitate sua : ruet etiam Judas cum eis.
⁶ In gregibus suis et in armentis suis vadent ad quærendum Dominum, et non invenient : ablatus est ab eis.
⁷ In Dominum prævaricati sunt, quia filios alienos genuerunt : nunc devorabit eos mensis, cum partibus suis.
⁸ Clangite buccina in Gabaa, tuba in Rama ; ululate in Bethaven, post tergum tuum, Benjamin.
⁹ Ephraim in desolatione erit in die correptionis ; in tribubus Israël ostendi fidem.
¹⁰ Facti sunt principes Juda quasi assumentes terminum ; super eos effundam quasi aquam iram meam.
¹¹ Calumniam patiens est Ephraim, fractus judicio, quoniam cœpit abire post sordes.
¹² Et ego quasi tinea Ephraim, et quasi putredo domui Juda.
¹³ Et vidit Ephraim languorem suum, et Juda vinculum suum ; et abiit Ephraim ad Assur, et misit ad regem ultorem : et ipse non poterit sanare vos, nec solvere poterit a vobis vinculum.
¹⁴ Quoniam ego quasi leæna Ephraim, et quasi catulus leonis domui Juda. Ego, ego capiam, et vadam ; tollam, et non est qui eruat.
¹⁵ Vadens revertar ad locum meum, donec deficiatis, et quæratis faciem meam.]

Osée 6

¹ [In tribulatione sua mane consurgent ad me : Venite, et revertamur ad Dominum,
² quia ipse cepit, et sanabit nos ; percutiet, et curabit nos.
³ Vivificabit nos post duos dies ; in die tertia suscitabit nos, et vivemus in conspectu ejus. Sciemus, sequemurque ut cognoscamus Dominum : quasi diluculum præparatus est egressus ejus, et veniet quasi imber nobis temporaneus et serotinus terræ.
⁴ Quid faciam tibi, Ephraim ? quid faciam tibi, Juda ? misericordia vestra quasi nubes matutina, et quasi ros mane pertransiens.
⁵ Propter hoc dolavi in prophetis ; occidi eos in verbis oris mei : et judicia tua quasi lux egredientur.
⁶ Quia misericordiam volui, et non sacrificium ; et scientiam Dei plus quam holocausta.
⁷ Ipsi autem sicut Adam transgressi sunt pactum : ibi prævaricati sunt in me.
⁸ Galaad civitas operantium idolum, supplantata sanguine.
⁹ Et quasi fauces virorum latronum, particeps sacerdotum, in via interficientium pergentes de Sichem : quia scelus operati sunt.
¹⁰ In domo Israël vidi horrendum : ibi fornicationes Ephraim, contaminatus est Israël.
¹¹ Sed et Juda, pone messem tibi, cum convertero captivitatem populi mei.]