| 1. Hear this, O priests; and hearken, O house of Israel; and give ear, O house of the king; for yours is the judgment, because you have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. |
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| 2. The extent of their straying they have deepened, and I [will bring] chastisement to all of them. |
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| 3. I knew Ephraim, and Israel was not hidden from Me, for now you have committed harlotry, O Ephraim; Israel was defiled. |
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| 4. They do not abandon their deeds to return to their God, for a spirit of harlotries is within them, and they do not know the Lord. |
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| 5. And the pride of Israel shall be humbled before them, and Israel and Ephraim shall stumble over their iniquity, [and] Judah too shall stumble with them. |
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| 6. With their flocks and with their cattle, they shall go to seek the Lord, but they shall not find [Him]; He has withdrawn from them. |
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| 7. They betrayed the Lord for they begot strange children; now a month shall consume them with their fields. |
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| 8. Sound a shofar in Gibeah, a trumpet in Ramah; shout [in] Beth-aven, "After you, Benjamin!" |
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| 9. Ephraim shall be bewildered on the day of contention; among the tribes of Israel I made known the true [doctrine]. |
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| 10. The princes of Judah were like those who remove the landmark; upon them will I pour My wrath like water. |
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| 11. Ephraim is plundered, broken by judgment, because he desired and followed a command. |
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יא. |
| 12. And I am like a moth to Ephraim and like decay to the house of Judah. |
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| 13. And Ephraim saw his ailment, and Judah his pain, and Ephraim went to Assyria, and he sent to the king of Yarev, but he will not be able to heal you, and he will not remove the pain from you. |
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| 14. For I am like a young lion to Ephraim and like a lion's whelp to the house of Judah; I, yea I, will tear and I will go away; I will carry off and no one will rescue. |
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| 15. I will go away and return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their straits they will seek Me. |
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