^5:1 Hear this, O you^* priests and listen, O house of Israel and listen, O house of the king, for to you^* is the judgment. For you^* have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor. ^5:2 And the revolters have gone deep in making slaughter, but I am a rebuker of them all.

    ^5:3 I know Ephraim and Israel is not hid from me. For now, O Ephraim, you have played the prostitute; Israel is defiled. ^5:4 Their practices will not allow them to turn to their God, for the spirit of prostitution is within them and they do not know Jehovah. ^5:5 And the pride of Israel testifies to his face.

    Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them. ^5:6 They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah, but they will not find him. He has withdrawn himself from them. ^5:7 They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah, for they have borne strange sons. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.

    ^5:8 Blow you^* the cornet in Gibeah and the trumpet in Ramah. Shout an alarm at Beth-aven, behind you, O Benjamin. ^5:9 Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. I have made known what will surely be among the tribes of Israel.

    ^5:10 The rulers of Judah are like those who move the landmark. I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. ^5:11 Ephraim is oppressed. He is crushed in judgment, because he was content to walk after man's command.

    ^5:12 Therefore I am to Ephraim as a moth and to the house of Judah as rottenness. ^5:13 When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to King Jareb. But he is not able to heal you^*, nor will he cure you^* of your^* wound.

    ^5:14 For I will be to Ephraim as a lion and as a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear and go away, I will carry off and there will be none to deliver. ^5:15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offense and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.