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5:1  “Hear this, cohanim! Pay attention, house of Isra’el! Listen, house of the king! For judgment is coming to you. You have become a snare for Mitzpah and a net spread on Tavor.
5:2  The rebels have deepened their slaughter, and I am rejected by all of them.
5:3  “I know Efrayim; Isra’el is not hidden from me; for now, Efrayim, you are a whore; Isra’el is defiled.”
5:4  Their deeds will not allow them to return to their God, for the spirit of whoring is in them, and they don’t know Adonai.
5:5  Isra’el’s arrogance will testify in his face; Isra’el and Efrayim will stumble in their crimes; Y’hudah too will stumble with them.
5:6  With their flocks and herds they will go in search of Adonai. But they won’t find him; he has withdrawn from them.
5:7  They have betrayed Adonai, by fathering foreign children. Now within the month the invaders will devour their lands.
5:8  “Blow the shofar in Giv‘ah, a trumpet at Ramah; sound an alarm at Beit-Aven: ‘Behind you, Binyamin!’
5:9  Efrayim will be laid waste when the day for punishment comes; I am announcing to the tribes of Isra’el what will surely happen.
5:10  The leaders of Y’hudah are like men who move boundary stones; I will pour my fury out upon them like water.
5:11  Efrayim is oppressed, crushed by the judgment, because he deliberately sought out futility.
5:12  Therefore I am like a moth to Efrayim and like rottenness to the house of Y’hudah.
5:13  When Efrayim saw his sickness and Y’hudah his wound, Efrayim went to Ashur and sent envoys to a warring king; but he can’t heal you or cure your wound.
5:14  For to Efrayim I will be like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Y’hudah — I will tear them up and go away; I will carry them off, and no one will rescue.
5:15  I will go and return to my place, till they admit their guilt and search for me, seeking me eagerly in their distress.”