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5:1  Hear this, priests, Pay attention, house of Israel, Household of the king, give ear! For you are responsible for judgment. But you have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread upon Tabor,
5:2  a pit dug deep in Shittim. Now I will discipline them all.
5:3  I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me: Now, Ephraim, you have practiced prostitution, Israel is defiled.
5:4  Their deeds do not allow them to return to their God; For the spirit of prostitution is in them, and they do not know the Lord.
5:5  The arrogance of Israel bears witness against him; Israel and Ephraim stumble because of their iniquity, and Judah stumbles with them.
5:6  With their flocks and herds they will go to seek the Lord, but will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.
5:7  They have betrayed the Lord, for they have borne illegitimate children; Now the new moon will devour them together with their fields.
5:8  Blow the ram’s horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah! Sound the alarm in Beth-aven: “Look behind you, Benjamin!”
5:9  Ephraim shall become a wasteland on the day of punishment: Among the tribes of Israel I announce what is sure to be.
5:10  The princes of Judah have become like those who move a boundary line; Upon them I will pour out my wrath like water.
5:11  Ephraim is oppressed, crushed by judgment, for he has willingly gone after filth!
5:12  I am like a moth for Ephraim, like rot for the house of Judah.
5:13  When Ephraim saw his infirmity, and Judah his sore, Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king. But he cannot heal you, nor take away your sore.
5:14  For I am like a lion to Ephraim, like a young lion to the house of Judah; It is I who tear the prey and depart, I carry it away and no one can save it.
5:15  I will go back to my place until they make reparation and seek my presence. In their affliction, they shall look for me.