1
Hear ye this, O priests; and attend, O house of Israel; and, O house of the king, give· ye ·ear; for the judgment is toward◦ you, for you have been a trap for Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.
2
And the devious are··deep into slaughter, and I◦ have been a chastisement to them all.
3
I◦ know Ephraim, and Israel is not concealed◦ from Me; for now, O Ephraim, thou committest··harlotry, and Israel is defiled.
4
They will not allow◦ their actions to return unto▵ their God; for the spirit of harlotries is in the midst··of them, and they have not known Jehovah.
5
And the pride of Israel answers to his face; and 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 has set· Himself ·free from them◦.
7
They have acted··treacherously against◦ Jehovah; for they have begotten strange sons: now shall a new··moon devour them with◦ their portions.
8
Sound ye the shophar* in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah; shout at Beth-aven, after thee, O Benjamin.
9
Ephraim shall be for a desolation in the day of reproving; among◦ the tribes◦ of Israel have I made known that which is constant.
10
The princes of Judah were as those who take··away the border marker; therefore I will spill My wrath on them like◦ water.
11
Ephraim is oppressed, fractured in judgment, for he was··content to walk after the mandate.
12
And I◦ will be as a moth to Ephraim, and as rottenness to the house of Judah.
13
And Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound*, and Ephraim went to▵ the Assyrian, and sent to▵ king Jareb; and he◦ was· not ·able to heal for you, nor cure from you the wound*.
14
For I▵ will be to 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 away, and none shall rescue him.
15
I will go, I will return to▵ My place, until they hold· themselves ·as··guilty, and seek My face; in their◦ distress they will seek· Me ·in··the··dawn.
