| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New Living Translation |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“Hear this, you priests. Pay attention, you leaders of Israel. Listen, you members of the royal family. Judgment has been handed down against you. For you have led the people into a snare by worshiping the idols at Mizpah and Tabor. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2You have dug a deep pit to trap them at Acacia Grove. But I will settle with you for what you have done. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3I know what you are like, O Ephraim. You cannot hide yourself from me, O Israel. You have left me as a prostitute leaves her husband; you are utterly defiled. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Your deeds won’t let you return to your God. You are a prostitute through and through, and you do not know the LORD. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5“The arrogance of Israel testifies against her; Israel and Ephraim will stumble under their load of guilt. Judah, too, will fall with them. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6When they come with their flocks and herds to offer sacrifices to the LORD, they will not find him, because he has withdrawn from them. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7They have betrayed the honor of the LORD, bearing children that are not his. Now their false religion will devour them along with their wealth. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8“Sound the alarm in Gibeah! Blow the trumpet in Ramah! Raise the battle cry in Beth-aven ! Lead on into battle, O warriors of Benjamin! |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9One thing is certain, Israel : On your day of punishment, you will become a heap of rubble. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10“The leaders of Judah have become like thieves. So I will pour my anger on them like a waterfall. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11The people of Israel will be crushed and broken by my judgment because they are determined to worship idols. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I will destroy Israel as a moth consumes wool. I will make Judah as weak as rotten wood. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13“When Israel and Judah saw how sick they were, Israel turned to Assyria— to the great king there— but he could neither help nor cure them. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I will be like a lion to Israel, like a strong young lion to Judah. I will tear them to pieces! I will carry them off, and no one will be left to rescue them. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Then I will return to my place until they admit their guilt and turn to me. For as soon as trouble comes, they will earnestly search for me.” |
| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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