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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"Hear this, priests, pay attention, house of Israel, listen, royal family! For judgment is coming your way, because you have been a trap to Mizpah, a snare spread out on Mount Tabor. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The rebels are deep into their slaughter; I am punishing them all. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3I know Ephraim, and Israel cannot hide from me, since you, Ephraim, have been acting like a prostitute, defiling Israel. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"Their actions hinder them from turning to their God, because a spirit of fornication is in their midst, and the LORD they do not know. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The arrogance of Israel testifies against him; therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity, and Judah with them. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6They will go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7They have been unfaithful to the LORD, having raised unbelieving children. In the coming month they will be devoured, along with their fields. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Sound the trumpet in Gibeah, and the alarm in Ramah. Cry out at Beth-aven Go out, Benjamin! |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Ephraim will be desolate when it is rebuked. I have made known among the tribes of Israel what will surely come about. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The princes of Judah have become like those who move boundary markers: I will pour out my anger on them like water. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Ephraim is crushed, broken by judgment, because he willingly pursued idols. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Therefore I will consume Ephraim like a moth, and the house of Judah as rottenness consumes. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13When Ephraim examined his illness and Judah his injury, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and inquired of the great king; but he could not cure you nor heal your injury. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Therefore I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I—even I—will tear them to pieces, and then I will leave. I will take them away, and there will be no rescue. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"I will leave and go back to my place until they admit their offense and seek my face. When affliction comes to them, they will eagerly seek me." |
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