¹Hear this, priests; pay attention, house of Israel; house of the king, give ear! For the justice belongs to you. For you have been a trap at Mizpah and a net spread out over Tabor.

²And the rebels have made deep slaughter, but I am discipline for all of them.

³I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now you have prostituted yourself, O Ephraim; Israel has defiled itself.

⁴Their deeds will not let them return to their God, for a spirit of whoredoms is in their midst, and they have not known Yahweh.

⁵And the pride of Israel testifies to his face; Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their guilt, and Judah has also stumbled with them.

⁶With their flocks and with their herds they will go to seek Yahweh, but they will not find him; he has pulled himself away from them.

⁷They have betrayed Yahweh, for they have borne foreign children; now a month will devour them along with their portions.

⁸Blow the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah; sound the alarm at Beth Aven: after you, O Benjamin!

⁹Ephraim will become a desolation on the day of rebuke; among the tribes of Israel I have made known what is sure.

¹⁰The officials of Judah have become like those who move a boundary; I will pour out my overflowing wrath on them like water.

¹¹Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in justice, for he was determined to go after a command.

¹²And I am like the moth to Ephraim, and like rot to the house of Judah.

¹³And Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound; and Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to King Jareb, but he cannot heal you, and the wound will not go away from you.

¹⁴For I am like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah; I, even I, will tear to pieces and go away; I will carry off, and there is no deliverer.

¹⁵I will go, I will return to my place, until they are held guilty and seek my face; in their distress they will seek me early.