Judgment on Israel and Judah

1“ Hear this, O priests!

And pay attention, O house of Israel!

And house is toward you, turn your ear!

Indeed unto you⁺ is the judgment,

because you⁺ have been a snare at Mizpah,

and a net spread out on Tabor.

2And into slaughter the rebels are deep;

and I will discipline all of them.

3I know Ephraim,†

and Israel is not hidden from Me;

for now, you engage in prositution,

O Ephraim;

Israel is defiled.

4Their deeds do not permit them

to return to their God;

for the spirit of prostitution is in their midst,

and YHWH they do not know.

5And answers the pride of Israel to his face;

and Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity;

Judah also stumbles with them.

6With their flocks and herds they will go

to seek YHWH,

and they will not find;

He has withdrawn from them.

7To YHWH they were unfaithful,

for they have borne strange sons.

Now the New Moon† will devour them

with their portions!

8Blow the shofar in Gibeah,

the trumpet in Ramah!

Give a shout in Beth-Aven;†

after you, O Benjamin!

9Ephraim will become as a desolation

on the day of rebuke;

among the tribes of Israel

I make known what is certain.

10The princes of Judah have become

like those moving a landmark;†

on them I will pour out

my wrath like the waters.

11Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment,

because he was willing to walk after worthless idols.†

12And I am like a moth to Ephraim,

and like rot to the house of Judah.

13When Ephraim saw his sickness,

and Judah his wound,

Ephraim went to Assyria,

and he sent to the great king;†

and he is not able to bring healing to you⁺,

and he cannot remove your⁺ wound.

14For I am like a lion to Ephraim,

and like a young lion to the house of Judah.

I—I, will tear them

and go away;

I will take them,

and no one is delivering.

15I will go—I will turn back to My place,

until that they acknowledge their guilt and seek My face;

in affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”