1. Hear this, O priests! Give heed, O house of Israel! Listen, O house of the king! Because the judgment applies to you; because you have been a snare for Mizpah, and a net spread out on Tabor;
2. they dug a deep pit in Shittim, but I am a punishment for all of them.
3. I myself know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; because now you have played the whore, O Ephraim— Israel is defiled.
4. Their deeds do not permit them to return them to God. Because a spirit of whoredom is in their midst, they do not know Yahweh.
5. The pride of Israel testifies against him, and Israel and Ephraim stumble in their guilt, and Judah stumbles with them.
6. With their flocks and herds they will go to seek Yahweh, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.
7. They have dealt faithlessly with Yahweh because they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.