1. Hear ye this, O priests, and hearken, O ye house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king: for there is a judgment against you, because you have been a snare to them whom you should have watched over, and a net spread upon Thabor.
2. And you have turned aside victims into the depth: and I am, the teacher of them all.
3. I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now Ephraim hath committed fornication, Israel is defiled.
4. They will not set their thoughts to return to their God: for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.