1. Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, O house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king; for unto you pertaineth the judgment; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
2. And the revolters are gone deep in making slaughter; but I am a rebuker of them all.
3. I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, O Ephraim, thou hast played the harlot, Israel is defiled.
4. Their doings will not suffer them to turn unto their God; for the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not Jehovah.
5. And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity; Judah also shall stumble with them.
6. They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah; but they shall not find him: he hath withdrawn himself from them.
7. They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah; for they have borne strange children: now shall the new moon devour them with their fields.