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| [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. |
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| [2]And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all. |
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| [3]I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou art guilty of lewdness, and Israel is defiled. |
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| [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. |
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| [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. |
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| [6]They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them. |
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| [7]They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions. |
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| [8]Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Beth-aven, after thee, O Benjamin. |
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| [9]Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be. |
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| [10]The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. |
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| [11]Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment. |
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| [12]Therefore will I be to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. |
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| [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. |
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| [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. |
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| [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. |
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