MLV(i)
1 Hear this, O you* priests and listen, O house of Israel and listen, O house of the king, for to you* is the judgment. For you* have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor.
2 And the revolters have gone deep in making slaughter, but I am a rebuker of them all.
3 I know Ephraim and Israel is not hid from me. For now, O Ephraim, you have played the prostitute; Israel is defiled. 4 Their practices will not allow them to turn to their God, for the spirit of prostitution is within them and they do not know Jehovah. 5 And the pride of Israel testifies to his face.
Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them. 6 They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah, but they will not find him. He has withdrawn himself from them. 7 They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah, for they have borne strange sons. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.
8 Blow you* the cornet in Gibeah and the trumpet in Ramah. Shout an alarm at Beth-aven, behind you, O Benjamin. 9 Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. I have made known what will surely be among the tribes of Israel.
10 The rulers of Judah are like those who remove the landmark. I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. 11 Ephraim is oppressed. He is crushed in judgment, because he was content to walk after man's command.
12 Therefore I am 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 Assyria and sent to King Jareb. But he is not able to heal you*, nor will he 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 carry off and there will be none to deliver. 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 earnestly.
3 I know Ephraim and Israel is not hid from me. For now, O Ephraim, you have played the prostitute; Israel is defiled. 4 Their practices will not allow them to turn to their God, for the spirit of prostitution is within them and they do not know Jehovah. 5 And the pride of Israel testifies to his face.
Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them. 6 They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah, but they will not find him. He has withdrawn himself from them. 7 They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah, for they have borne strange sons. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.
8 Blow you* the cornet in Gibeah and the trumpet in Ramah. Shout an alarm at Beth-aven, behind you, O Benjamin. 9 Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. I have made known what will surely be among the tribes of Israel.
10 The rulers of Judah are like those who remove the landmark. I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. 11 Ephraim is oppressed. He is crushed in judgment, because he was content to walk after man's command.
12 Therefore I am 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 Assyria and sent to King Jareb. But he is not able to heal you*, nor will he 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 carry off and there will be none to deliver. 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 earnestly.