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6 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah ; but they shall not find him : he hath withdrawn himself from them.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