1. “Hear this, you priests.Pay attention, you leaders of Israel.Listen, you members of the royal family.Judgment has been handed down against you.For you have led the people into a snareby worshiping the idols at Mizpah and Tabor.
2. You have dug a deep pit to trap them at Acacia Grove.But I will settle with you for what you have done.
3. I know what you are like, O Ephraim.You cannot hide yourself from me, O Israel.You have left me as a prostitute leaves her husband;you are utterly defiled.
4. Your deeds won’t let you return to your God.You are a prostitute through and through,and you do not know the lord.