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 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah; but they shall not find him: he hath withdrawn himself from them.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.
8. Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: sound an alarm at Beth-aven; behind thee, O Benjamin.
9. Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
10. The princes of Judah are like them that remove the landmark: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
11. Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; because he was content to walk after man’s command.