Hear this, priests, and pay attention, house of Israel, and listen closely, house of the king. For there is a judgment against you, because you have become a trap for those you watched over, and a net stretched out over Tabor
And you have led astray victims into the depths, though I am the teacher of them all
I know Ephraim, and Israel has not been hidden from me, yet now Ephraim has committed fornication, and Israel has been contaminated
They will not set their thoughts to return to their God, for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord
And the arrogance of Israel will answer to his face. And Israel and Ephraim will fall in their iniquity, and even Judah will fall with them
With their flocks and their herds, they will go to seek the Lord, and they will not find him. He has taken himself away from them
They have sinned against the Lord. For they have conceived sons that are strangers. Now one month will devour them with all their own
Sound the bugle in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah. Shout in Bethaven, behind your back, O Benjamin
Ephraim will be in desolation on the day of correction, for within the tribes of Israel, I have revealed faith
The leaders of Judah have become like those who assume the end. I will pour my wrath over them like water
Ephraim has been enduring malicious slander and broken judgment, because he began to go after filth
And I will be like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah
And Ephraim saw his own weakness, and Judah his chains. And Ephraim went to Assur, and he sent to the Avenging king. But he will not be able to heal you, nor is he able to release you from your chains
For I will be like a lioness to Ephraim, and like a lion’s offspring to the house of Judah. I myself will seize and go forth. I will take away, and there is no one who can rescue
I will go and return to my place, until you shall grow faint and seek my face