1 Listen to this, priests; take heed, house of Israel; house of the king, give ear! For this judgment is yours: you have been a trap at Mizpah and a net stretched over Tabor.
2 The rebels have sunk deep into slaughter, but I am a rebuke to them all.
3 I am the one who knows Ephraim, and Israel is not concealed from me; for you, Ephraim, have now played the harlot, and Israel has become unclean.
4 Their deeds will not let them turn back to their God, for a spirit of harlotry is in their midst, and the LORD they do not know.
5 The pride of Israel bears witness against him to his face; Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity, and Judah too will stumble with them.
6 They will come with their sheep and their cattle to seek the LORD, and they will not find him; he has pulled away from them.
7 They have betrayed the LORD, for they have fathered foreign children; now a new moon will devour them with their portions.
8 Sound the ram's horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah; raise the war cry at Beth-aven: "Behind you, Benjamin!"
9 Ephraim will be a ruin on the day of reproof; among the tribes of Israel I have made known what will surely be.
10 Judah's princes are like men who shift a boundary marker; I will pour out my fury on them like water.
11 Ephraim is oppressed and crushed by judgment, because he was bent on walking after the command.
12 So I am as a moth to Ephraim, and as decay to the house of Judah.
13 Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his sore; then Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to King Jareb. But he cannot heal you or take your sore away.
14 For I will be as a lion to Ephraim, as a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear them and walk off; I will carry them away, with no one to deliver.
15 I will go back to my place until they bear their guilt and seek my face; in their distress they will search for me eagerly.