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The People's Apostasy Rebuked

¹ Hear this, O priests!
Give heed, O house of Israel!
Listen, O house of the king!
For the judgment applies to you,
For you have been a ^(C1)snare at Mizpah
And a net spread out on Tabor.

² The ^(C1)revolters have ^(F1)(C2)gone deep in depravity,
But I will chastise all of them.

³ I ^(C1)know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me;
For now, O Ephraim, you have played the harlot,
Israel has defiled itself.

⁴ Their deeds will not allow them
To return to their God.
For a ^(C1)spirit of harlotry is within them,
And they ^(C2)do not know the LORD.

⁵ Moreover, the ^(C1)pride of Israel testifies against him,
And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity;
^(C2)Judah also has stumbled with them.

⁶ 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He has ^(C3)withdrawn from them.

⁷ They have ^(C1)dealt treacherously against the LORD,
For they have borne ^(F1)(C2)illegitimate children.
Now the ^(C3)new moon will devour them with their ^(F2)land.

^8 (C1)Blow the horn in ^(C2)Gibeah,
The trumpet in Ramah.
Sound an alarm at Beth-aven:
"^(C3)Behind you, Benjamin!"

⁹ Ephraim will become a ^(C1)desolation in the ^(C2)day of rebuke;
Among the tribes of Israel I ^(C3)declare what is sure.

¹⁰ The princes of Judah have become like those who ^(C1)move a boundary;
On them I will ^(C2)pour out My wrath ^(C3)like water.

¹¹ Ephraim is ^(C1)oppressed, crushed in judgment,
^(C2)Because he was determined to ^(F1)follow man's command.

¹² Therefore I am like a ^(C1)moth to Ephraim
And like rottenness to the house of Judah.

¹³ When Ephraim saw his sickness,
And Judah his ^(F1)wound,
Then Ephraim went to ^(C1)Assyria
And sent to ^(F2)(C2)King Jareb.
But he is ^(C3)unable to heal you,
Or to cure you of your ^(F1)wound.

¹⁴ For I will be ^(C1)like a lion to Ephraim
And like a young lion to the house of Judah.
^(C2)I, even I, will tear to pieces and go away,
I will carry away, and there will be ^(C3)none to deliver.

¹⁵ I will go away and return to My place
Until they ^(F1)(C1)acknowledge their guilt and seek My face;
In their affliction they will earnestly ^(C2)seek Me.