1. “Listen to this, you priests!Pay attention, nation of Israel!Open your ears, royal family!This is my decision about you.You set traps at Mizpahand spread out nets on Mount Tabor.
2. You are deeply involved in sin.So I will punish all of you.
3. I know Ephraim,and Israel isn’t a stranger to me.Now, Ephraim, you are acting like a prostitute,and Israel is unclean.
4. “The wicked things that the people have donekeep them from returning to their God.They have a spirit of prostitution,and they don’t know the Lord.
5. The people of Israel’s arrogance testifies against them.Israel and Ephraim stumble because of their sins,and Judah stumbles with them.
6. They go with their sheep and their cattle to search for the Lord,but they can’t find him.He has left them.
7. They have been unfaithful to the Lord,because their children do not belong to him.Now their New Moon ⌊Festivals⌋ will devour them and their fields.
8. “Blow the ram’s horn in Gibeah.Blow the trumpet in Ramah.Sound the alarm at Beth Aven, you descendants of Benjamin.
9. Ephraim will become a wastelandwhen the time for punishment comes.I will make the truth known among the tribes of Israel.
10. The leaders of Judah are like those who move boundary markers.I will pour my fury on them like water.