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Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, house of Israel! Listen, you of the house of the king! For the judgment applies to you, Because you have been a ^(C1)trap at Mizpah, And a net spread out on Tabor.

And the ^(C1)rebels have ^(C2)gone deep in ^(F1)depravity, But I will discipline all of them.

I ^(C1)know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me; Because now, Ephraim, you have been unfaithful, Israel has defiled itself.

Their deeds will not allow them To return to their God. For a ^(C1)spirit of ^(F1)infidelity is within them, And they ^(C2)do not know the LORD.

Moreover, the ^(C1)pride of Israel testifies against him, And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their wrongdoing; ^(C2)Judah also has stumbled with them.

They will ^(C1)go with their flocks and herds To seek the LORD, but they will ^(C2)not find Him; He has ^(C3)withdrawn from them.

They have ^(C1)dealt treacherously with the LORD, For they have given birth to ^(F1)(C2)illegitimate children. Now the ^(C3)new moon will devour them with their ^(F2)land.

^(C1)Blow the horn in ^(C2)Gibeah, And the trumpet in Ramah. Sound an alarm at Beth-aven: "^(C3)Behind you, Benjamin!"

Ephraim will become a ^(C1)desolation in the ^(C2)day of rebuke; Among the tribes of Israel I ^(C3)make known what is trustworthy.

The leaders of Judah have become like those who ^(C1)displace a boundary marker; On them I will ^(C2)pour out My anger ^(C3)like water.

Ephraim is ^(C1)oppressed, broken by judgment, ^(C2)Because he was determined to follow ^(F1)man's command.

Therefore I am like a ^(C1)moth to Ephraim, And like rottenness to the house of Judah.

When Ephraim saw his sickness, And Judah his ^(F1)sore, Ephraim then went to ^(C1)Assyria And sent word to ^(F2)(C2)King Jareb. But he is ^(C3)unable to heal you, Or to cure you of your ^(F1)sore.

For I will be ^(C1)like a lion to Ephraim And like a young lion to the house of Judah. ^(C2)I, yes I, will tear to pieces and go away, I will carry away, and there will be ^(C3)no one to rescue.

I will go away and return to My place Until they ^(F1)(C1)acknowledge their guilt and seek My face; In their distress they will ^(C2)search for Me.