1. “Listen to this, you priests!Pay attention, nation of Israel!Open your ears, royal family!This is my decision about you.You set traps at Mizpahand spread out nets on Mount Tabor.
2. You are deeply involved in sin.So I will punish all of you.
3. I know Ephraim,and Israel isn’t a stranger to me.Now, Ephraim, you are acting like a prostitute,and Israel is unclean.
4. “The wicked things that the people have donekeep them from returning to their God.They have a spirit of prostitution,and they don’t know the Lord.
5. The people of Israel’s arrogance testifies against them.Israel and Ephraim stumble because of their sins,and Judah stumbles with them.
6. They go with their sheep and their cattle to search for the Lord,but they can’t find him.He has left them.
7. They have been unfaithful to the Lord,because their children do not belong to him.Now their New Moon ⌊Festivals⌋ will devour them and their fields.