1. Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment [is] towards you, because ye 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, thou art guilty of lewdness, [and] Israel is defiled.
4. They will not frame their doings to turn to their God for the spirit of lewdness [is] in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.
5. And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.
6. They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find [him]; he hath withdrawn himself from them.
7. They have dealt treacherously against the LORD for they have begotten strange children now shall a month devour them with their portions.
8. Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, [and] the trumpet in Ramah cry aloud [at] Beth-aven, after thee, O Benjamin.
9. Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall 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 Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb yet he could 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 shall rescue [him].
15. I will go [and] return to my place, till they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face in their affliction they will seek me early.