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.
5. And the pride of Israel shall answer in his face: and Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquity, Juda also shall fall with them.
6. With their flocks, and with their herds, they shall go to seek the Lord, and shall not find him: he is withdrawn from them.
7. They have transgressed against the Lord, for they have begotten children that are strangers: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
8. Blow ye the cornet in Gabaa, the trumpet in Rama: howl ye in Bethaven, behind thy back, O Benjamin.
9. Ephraim shall be in desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel I have shewn that which shall surely be.