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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, you Israelites! Listen closely, O king! For judgment is about to overtake you! For you were like a trap to Mizpah, like a net spread out to catch Tabor. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Those who revolt are knee-deep in slaughter, but I will discipline them all. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3I know Ephraim all too well; the evil of Israel is not hidden from me. For you have engaged in prostitution, O Ephraim; Israel has defiled itself. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Their wicked deeds do not allow them to return to their God; because a spirit of idolatry controls their heart, and they do not acknowledge the LORD. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The arrogance of Israel testifies against it; Israel and Ephraim will be overthrown because of their iniquity. Even Judah will be brought down with them. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Although they bring their flocks and herds to seek the favor of the LORD, They will not find him--he has withdrawn himself from them! |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7They have committed treason against the LORD, because they bore illegitimate children. Soon the new moon festival will devour them and their fields. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Blow the ram's horn in Gibeah! Sound the trumpet in Ramah! Sound the alarm in Beth Aven! Tremble in fear, O Benjamin! |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Ephraim will be ruined in the day of judgment! What I am declaring to the tribes of Israel will certainly take place! |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary markers. I will pour out my rage on them like a torrential flood! |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Ephraim will be oppressed, crushed under judgment, because he was determined to pursue worthless idols. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I will be like a moth to Ephraim, like wood rot to the house of Judah. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria, and begged its great king for help. But he will not be able to heal you! He cannot cure your wound! |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I will be like a lion to Ephraim, like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear them to pieces, then I will carry them off, and no one will be able to rescue them! |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Then I will return again to my lair until they have suffered their punishment. Then they will seek me; in their distress they will earnestly seek me. |
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