3. I know Ephraim,and Israel is not hidden from me;for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore;Israel is defiled.
4. Their deeds do not permit themto return to their God.For the spirit of whoredom is within them,and they know not the Lord.
5. The pride of Israel testifies to his face;Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt; Judah also shall stumble with them.
6. With their flocks and herds they shall goto seek the Lord, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.
7. They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord;for they have borne alien children.Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.
8. Blow the horn in Gibeah,the trumpet in Ramah.Sound the alarm at Beth-aven;we follow you, O Benjamin!
9. Ephraim shall become a desolationin the day of punishment;among the tribes of IsraelI make known what is sure.
10. The princes of Judah have becomelike those who move the landmark;upon them I will pour outmy wrath like water.
11. Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment,because he was determined to go after filth.
12. But I am like a moth to Ephraim,and like dry rot to the house of Judah.