1Hear this, O you priests, and listen, O house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king; for to you pertains the judgment; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. 2And the revolters have gone deep in making slaughter; but I am a rebuker of them all. 3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have played the prostitute, Israel is defiled. 4Their doings will not allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they do not know Yehovah. 5And the pride of Israel testifies to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity; Judah also shall stumble with them. 6They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yehovah; but they shall not find him: he has withdrawn himself from them. 7They have dealt treacherously against Yehovah; for they have borne strange children: now the new moon shall devour them with their fields. 8Blow the horn in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: sound an alarm at Beth-aven; behind you, O Benjamin. 9Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel I have made known that which shall surely be. 10The princes of Judah are like those who remove the landmark: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. 11Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; because he was content to walk after man’s command. 12Therefore I am to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. 13When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, nor will he cure you of your wound. 14For 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 off, and there shall be none to deliver. 15I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me earnestly.