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1 Hear ye this, O priests; and hear­ken, ye house of Is­rael; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judg­ment is to­ward you, be­cause ye have been a snare on Miz­pah, and a net spread upon Ta­bor. 2 And the re­volters are pro­found to make slaugh­ter, though I have been a re­buk­er of them all. 3 I know Ephraim, and Is­rael is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou com­mittest whore­dom, and Is­rael is de­filed. 4 They will not frame their do­ings to turn unto their God: for the spir­it of whore­doms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD. 5 And the pride of Is­rael doth tes­ti­fy to his face: there­fore shall Is­rael and Ephraim 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; he hath with­drawn him­self from them. 7 They have dealt treach­er­ous­ly against the LORD: for they have be­got­ten strange chil­dren: now shall a month de­vour them with their por­tions. 8 Blow ye the cor­net in Gibeah, and the trum­pet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, af­ter thee, O Ben­jamin. 9 Ephraim shall be des­o­late in the day of re­buke: among the tribes of Is­rael have I made known that which shall sure­ly be. 10 The princes of Ju­dah were like them that re­move the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like wa­ter. 11 Ephraim is op­pressed and bro­ken in judg­ment, be­cause he will­ing­ly walked af­ter the com­mand­ment. 12 There­fore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Ju­dah as rot­ten­ness. 13 When Ephraim saw his sick­ness, and Ju­dah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the As­syr­i­an, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound. 14 For I will be unto 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 him. 15 I will go and re­turn to my place, till they ac­knowl­edge their of­fence, and seek my face: in their af­flic­tion they will seek me ear­ly.