¹ Hear you this, O priests; and listen, you house of Israel; and give you ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because you have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor. ² And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, even though I have been a rebuker of them all. ³ I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, you committ whoredom, and Israel is defiled. ⁴ They will not frame their doings to turn to their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD. ⁵ And the pride of Israel does testify to his face: therefore will Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity Judah also will fall with them. ⁶ They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD but they will not find him he has withdrawn himself from them. ⁷ They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have born strange children: now will a month devour them with their portions. ⁸ Blow you the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after you, O Benjamin. ⁹ Ephraim will be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which will surely be. ¹⁰ The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath on them like water. ¹¹ Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment. ¹² Therefore will I be to 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 the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb : yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your 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 take away, and none will rescue [him]. 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 early.