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¹ HEAR this, O priests; and give ear, O house of Israel; and listen, O house of the king; for the judgment is for you, because you have been a snare to prophets and a net spread upon Tabor.² And the hunters who hunt have laid hidden snares, but I will chastise them all.³ I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now Ephraim has committed whoredom, and Israel is defiled.⁴ Their evil devices will not permit them to turn to their God; for the spirit of whoredom is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.⁵ And the pride of Israel shall be humbled before his presence; and Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.⁶ They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him, because he has withdrawn himself from them.⁷ They have dealt falsely with the LORD, for they have begotten alien children.

⁸ Blow the trumpet in Ramtha, blow the horn in Ramtha; cry aloud at Beth-aon; the enemy is after you, O Benjamin.⁹ Ephraim shall be desolate in the clay of rebuke; among the tribes of Israel I have made known that which shall surely be.¹⁰ The princes of Judah were like those who remove a landmark; therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.¹¹ Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly went after vain things.¹² Therefore I will be as a tempest to Ephraim, and to the house of Judah as a lion.¹³ When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah saw his wounds, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king; but he cannot heal you nor cure you of your wounds.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.¹⁵ I will return and go to my place, till they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face; in their affliction they will seek me early.