Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, O house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king; for 1 unto you pertaineth the judgment; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. 1) Or against you is the judgment
2And the revolters are gone deep 1 in making slaughter; but I am a 2 rebuker of them all. 1) Or in corruption 2) Heb rebuke
3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, O Ephraim, thou hast played the harlot, Israel is defiled.
41 Their doings will not suffer them to turn unto their God; for the spirit of whoredom is 2 within them, and they know not Jehovah. 1) Or They will not frame their doings 2) Or in the midst of
5And the 1 pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity; Judah also shall stumble with them. 1) Or excellency
6They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah; but they shall not find him: he hath withdrawn himself from them.
7They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah; for they have 1 borne strange children: now shall 2 the new moon devour them with their 3 fields. 1) Or begotten 2) Or a month 3) Heb portions
8Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: sound an alarm at Beth-aven; 1 behind thee, O Benjamin. 1) Or After thee, Benjamin!
9Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
10The princes of Judah are like them that remove the landmark: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
11Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; because he was content to walk after man's command.
121 Therefore am I unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. 1) Or And I was
13When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to Assyria, and sent to 1 king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound. 1) Or a king that should contend
14For 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 carry off, and there shall be none to deliver.
15I will go and return to my place, till they 1 acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me 2 earnestly. 1) Or have borne their guilt 2) Or earnestly, saying