1Give ear to this, O priests; give attention, O Israel, and you, family of the king; for you are to be judged; you have been a deceit at Mizpah and a net stretched out on Tabor.
2They have gone deep in the evil ways of Shittim, but I am the judge of all.
3I have knowledge of Ephraim, and Israel is not secret from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have been false to me, Israel has become unclean.
4Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.
5And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; and Ephraim will have a fall through his sins, and the fall of Judah will be the same as theirs.
6They will go, with their flocks and their herds, in search of the Lord, but they will not see him; he has taken himself out of their view.
7They have been false to the Lord; they have given birth to strange children; now the new moon will make them waste with their fields.
