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| 1"Hear this, priests, pay attention, house of Israel, listen, royal family! For judgment is coming your way, because you have been a trap to Mizpah, a snare spread out on Mount Tabor. | 1Hear this, O priests! Pay attention, O house of Israel! Give ear, O house of the king! For the judgment is for you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor. |
| 2The rebels are deep into their slaughter; I am punishing them all. | 2And the revolters have gone deep into slaughter, but I will discipline all of them. |
| 3I know Ephraim, and Israel cannot hide from me, since you, Ephraim, have been acting like a prostitute, defiling Israel. | 3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore; Israel is defiled. |
| 4"Their actions hinder them from turning to their God, because a spirit of fornication is in their midst, and the LORD they do not know. | 4Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not the LORD. |
| 5The arrogance of Israel testifies against him; therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity, and Judah with them. | 5The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt; Judah also shall stumble with them. |
| 6They will go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them. | 6With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the LORD, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them. |
| 7They have been unfaithful to the LORD, having raised unbelieving children. In the coming month they will be devoured, along with their fields. | 7They have dealt faithlessly with the LORD; for they have borne alien children. Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields. |
| 8"Sound the trumpet in Gibeah, and the alarm in Ramah. Cry out at Beth-aven Go out, Benjamin! | 8Blow the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah. Sound the alarm at Beth-aven; we follow you, O Benjamin! |
| 9Ephraim will be desolate when it is rebuked. I have made known among the tribes of Israel what will surely come about. | 9Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure. |
| 10The princes of Judah have become like those who move boundary markers: I will pour out my anger on them like water. | 10The princes of Judah have become like those who move the landmark; upon them I will pour out my wrath like water. |
| 11Ephraim is crushed, broken by judgment, because he willingly pursued idols. | 11Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to go after filth. |
| 12Therefore I will consume Ephraim like a moth, and the house of Judah as rottenness consumes. | 12But I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like dry rot to the house of Judah. |
| 13When Ephraim examined his illness and Judah his injury, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and inquired of the great king; but he could not cure you nor heal your injury. | 13When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king. But he is not able to cure you or heal your wound. |
| 14Therefore I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I—even I—will tear them to pieces, and then I will leave. I will take them away, and there will be no rescue. | 14For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and no one shall rescue. |
| 15"I will leave and go back to my place until they admit their offense and seek my face. When affliction comes to them, they will eagerly seek me." | 15I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress earnestly seek me. |
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