1. ‘Hear this, you priests!Pay attention, you Israelites!Listen, royal house!This judgment is against you:you have been a snare at Mizpah,a net spread out on Tabor.
2. The rebels are knee-deep in slaughter.I will discipline all of them.
3. I know all about Ephraim;Israel is not hidden from me.Ephraim, you have now turned to prostitution;Israel is corrupt.
4. ‘Their deeds do not permit themto return to their God.A spirit of prostitution is in their heart;they do not acknowledge the Lord.
5. Israel’s arrogance testifies against them;the Israelites, even Ephraim, stumble in their sin;Judah also stumbles with them.
6. When they go with their flocks and herdsto seek the Lord,they will not find him;he has withdrawn himself from them.