"Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, And give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; For you have been a snare at Mizpah, And a net spread on Tabor.
Hosea 5:8-15 relate the severe terms of the "sentence" imposed upon them by the true God. There shall be war and strife  (Hosea 5:8); Ephraim shall be made a desolation  (Hosea 5:9); God's wrath shall be poured out upon them  (Hosea 5:10); Ephraim (Israel) shall be crushed in judgment because he followed men and not God  (Hosea 5:12); Ephraim will seek human remedies for his ills, but will be frustrated, because it is actually God who is his enemy; God will be like a lion in seizing Israel as a prey; and then God will withdraw himself from Israel until they seek him earnestly  (Hosea 5:13-15).