| 1: Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel;
and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you,
because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
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| 2: And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I
have been a rebuker of them all. |
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| 3:
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O
Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled. |
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| 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. |
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| 5: And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore
shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall
with them. |
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| 6: They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek
the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from
them. |
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| 7: They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have
begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their
portions. |
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| 8: Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry
aloud at Beth-aven, after thee, O Benjamin. |
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| 9: Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the
tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be. |
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| 10: The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound:
therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. |
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| 11: Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he
willingly walked after the commandment. |
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| 12: Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house
of Judah as rottenness. |
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| 13: When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then
went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not
heal you, nor cure you of your wound. |
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| 14: For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to
the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away,
and none shall rescue him. |
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| 15: I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their
offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early. |
