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vch. 4:1; Joel 1:2; Amos 3:1; Mic. 1:2 Hear this, O priests!
Pay attention, O house of Israel!
Give ear, O house of the king!
For the judgment is for you;
forw[ch. 6:9; 9:8] you have been a snare at Mizpah
and a net spread uponxJudg. 4:6 Tabor.
2 Andy[ch. 9:15] the revoltersz[ch. 9:9; Isa. 29:15] have gone deep into slaughter,
buta[Ps. 50:21] I will discipline all of them.
3 b[Amos 3:2; 5:12] I know Ephraim,
and Israel is not hidden from me;
for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore;
Israel is defiled.
4 c[Isa. 59:2] Their deeds do not permit them
to return to their God.
Fordch. 4:12 the spirit of whoredom is within them,
and they know not the Lord.
5 ech. 7:10 The pride of Israel testifies to his face;1Or in his presence
Israel andfSee ch. 6:4 Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt;
fSee ch. 6:4 Judah also shall stumble with them.
6 gch. 6:6; Isa. 1:11 With their flocks and herds they shall go
to seek the Lord,
gch. 6:6; Isa. 1:11 but they will not find him;
hch. 9:12 he has withdrawn from them.
7 ich. 6:7 They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord;
for they have borne alien children.
Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.
8 jch. 8:1; Jer. 4:5 Blow the horn inkch. 9:9; 10:9 Gibeah,
the trumpet inlJosh. 18:25 Ramah.
Sound the alarm atmSee ch. 4:15 Beth-aven;
we follow you,1Or after you O Benjamin!
9 Ephraim shall become a desolation
in the day of punishment;
among the tribes of Israel
I make known what is sure.
10 The princes of Judah have become
likenDeut. 19:14 those who move the landmark;
upon them I will pour out
my wrath like water.
11 Ephraim isoDeut. 28:33; Amos 4:1 oppressed, crushed in judgment,
because he was determined to go after filth.1Or to follow human precepts
12 But I amp[Job 13:28] like a moth to Ephraim,
andp[Job 13:28] like dry rot to the house of Judah.
13 When Ephraim saw his sickness,
and Judahq[Isa. 1:5, 6] his wound,
then Ephraim wentrch. 7:11; 8:9; 12:1; 2 Kgs. 15:19 to Assyria,
and sent to the great king.1Or to King Jareb
sch. 14:3 But he is not able to cure you
or healq[Isa. 1:5, 6] your wound.
14 For I will betch. 13:7 like a lion touSee ch. 6:4 Ephraim,
and like a young lion to the house ofuSee ch. 6:4 Judah.
v[Mic. 5:8] I, even I, will tear and go away;
I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.
15 w[Jer. 29:10-12; Ezek. 6:9]; See Lev. 26:40-42 I will return again to my place,
until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,
andxIsa. 26:16 in their distress earnestly seek me.