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1. Hear ye this, O Priests, and hearken ye house of Israel, and give ye ear, O house of the King: for judgement is towards you, because ye have been a snare on M••zpah, and a net spred upon Tabor.
2. And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
3. I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me:
for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.
4. They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.
5 And the pride of Isra∣el doth testifie to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their ini∣quity: Iudah also shall fall with them.
6. They shall go with their flocks, and with their berds to seek the Lord: but they shall not find him, he hath withdrawn himself from them.
7. They have dealt trea∣cherously against the Lord: for they have begotten strange children, now shall a moneth devour them with their portions.
8. Blow ye the cornet in Gibea, & the trumpet in Ra∣mah; cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.
9. Ephraim shall be de∣solate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israell have I made known that which shall surely be.
10. The Princes of Iu∣dah were like them that re∣move the bound: therefore I will poure out my wrath upon them like water.
11. Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgement: because he willingly walk∣ed after the commandment.
12. Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth: and to the house of Iudah as rottennesse.
13. When Ephraim saw his sicknesse, and Iudah saw his wound: then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Iareb; yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
14. For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Iudah: I, even I, will tear and go away: I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
15. I will goe and re∣turn to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.