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^1 (a)Hear this, O priests!
    Pay attention, O house of Israel!
Give ear, O house of the king!
    For the judgment is for you;
for ^(b)you have been a snare at Mizpah
    and a net spread upon ^(c)Tabor.
² And ^(d)the revolters ^(e)have gone deep into slaughter,
    but ^(f)I will discipline all of them.

^3 (g)I know Ephraim,
    and Israel is not hidden from me;
for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore;
    Israel is defiled.
^4 (h)Their deeds do not permit them
    to return to their God.
For ⁽ⁱ⁾the spirit of whoredom is within them,
    and they know not the Lord.

^5 (j)The pride of Israel testifies to his face;^[a]
    Israel and ^(k)Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt;
    ^(l)Judah also shall stumble with them.
^6 (m)With their flocks and herds they shall go
    to seek the Lord,
⁽ⁿ⁾but they will not find him;
    ^(o)he has withdrawn from them.
^7 (p)They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord;
    for they have borne alien children.
    Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.

^8 (q)Blow the horn in ^(r)Gibeah,
    the trumpet in ^(s)Ramah.
Sound the alarm at ^(t)Beth-aven;
    we follow you,^[b] O Benjamin!
⁹ Ephraim shall become a desolation
    in the day of punishment;
among the tribes of Israel
    I make known what is sure.
¹⁰ The princes of Judah have become
    like ^(u)those who move the landmark;
upon them I will pour out
    my wrath like water.
¹¹ Ephraim is ^(v)oppressed, crushed in judgment,
    because he was determined to go after filth.^[c]
12 But I am ^(w)like a moth to Ephraim,
    and ^(x)like dry rot to the house of Judah.

¹³ When Ephraim saw his sickness,
    and Judah ^(y)his wound,
then Ephraim went ^(z)to Assyria,
    and sent to the great king.^[d]
(aa)But he is not able to cure you
    or heal ^(ab)your wound.
¹⁴ For I will be ^(ac)like a lion to ^(ad)Ephraim,
    and like a young lion to the house of ^(ae)Judah.
^(af)I, even I, will tear and go away;
    I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.

^15 (ag)I will return again to my place,
    until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,
    and ^(ah)in their distress earnestly seek me.