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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 upon Tabor.
2 And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, 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 commit 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 [Yahweh].
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6 They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD [Yahweh]; but they will not find [him]; he has withdrawn himself from them.
7 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD [Yahweh]: for they have begotten 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 upon 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.