1Hear this, you priests, and listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king; for to you pertains the judgment; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.
2The rebels have gone deep in making slaughter; but I discipline them all.
3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute, Israel is defiled.
4Their doings will not allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don`t know Yahweh.
5The pride of Israel does testify to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity; Judah also shall stumble with them.
6They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh; but they shall not find him: he has withdrawn himself from them.
7They have dealt treacherously against Yahweh; for they have borne strange children: now shall the new moon devour them with their fields.
