Hear this, O priests! Give heed, O house of Israel! Listen, O house of the king! For the judgment applies to you, For you have been a asnare at Mizpah And a net spread out on Tabor.
2The arevolters have 1 bgone deep in depravity, But I will chastise all of them.
3I aknow Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me; For now, O Ephraim, you have played the harlot, Israel has defiled itself.
4Their deeds will not allow them To return to their God. For a aspirit of harlotry is within them, And they bdo not know the LORD.
5Moreover, the apride of Israel testifies against him, And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; bJudah also has stumbled with them.
6They will ago with their flocks and herds To seek the LORD, but they will bnot find Him; He has cwithdrawn from them.
7They have adealt treacherously against the LORD, For they have borne 1 billegitimate children. Now the cnew moon will devour them with their 2land.
8aBlow the horn in bGibeah, The trumpet in Ramah. Sound an alarm at Beth-aven: " cBehind you, Benjamin!"
9Ephraim will become a adesolation in the bday of rebuke; Among the tribes of Israel I cdeclare what is sure.
10The princes of Judah have become like those who amove a boundary; On them I will bpour out My wrath clike water.
11Ephraim is aoppressed, crushed in judgment, bBecause he was determined to 1follow man's command.
12Therefore I am like a amoth to Ephraim And like rottenness to the house of Judah.
13When Ephraim saw his sickness, And Judah his 1wound, Then Ephraim went to aAssyria And sent to 2 bKing Jareb. But he is cunable to heal you, Or to cure you of your 1wound.
14For I will be alike a lion to Ephraim And like a young lion to the house of Judah. bI, even I, will tear to pieces and go away, I will carry away, and there will be cnone to deliver.
15I will go away and return to My place Until they 1 aacknowledge their guilt and seek My face; In their affliction they will earnestly bseek Me.