³ I know Ephraim,
    and Israel is not hidden from me;
for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore;
    Israel is defiled.
⁴ Their deeds do not permit them
    to return to their God.
For the spirit of whoredom is within them,
    and they know not the Lord.

⁵ The pride of Israel testifies to his face;^[a]
    Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt;
    Judah also shall stumble with them.
⁶ With their flocks and herds they shall go
    to seek the Lord,
but they will not find him;
    he has withdrawn from them.
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 Blow the horn in Gibeah,
    the trumpet in Ramah.
Sound the alarm at Beth-aven;
    we follow you,^[b] 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
    like those who move the landmark;
upon them I will pour out
    my wrath like water.
¹¹ Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment,
    because he was determined to go after filth.^[c]
12 But I am like a moth to Ephraim,
    and like dry rot to the house of Judah.

¹³ When Ephraim saw his sickness,
    and Judah his wound,
then Ephraim went to Assyria,
    and sent to the great king.^[d]
But he is not able to cure you
    or heal your wound.
¹⁴ For I will be like a lion to Ephraim,
    and like a young lion to the house of Judah.
I, even I, will tear and go away;
    I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.

¹⁵ I will return again to my place,
    until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,
    and in their distress earnestly seek me.