2The revolters have gone deep in depravity,
         But I will chastise all of them.

3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me;
         For now, O Ephraim, you have played the harlot,
         Israel has defiled itself.

4Their deeds will not allow them
         To return to their God.
         For a spirit of harlotry is within them,
         And they do not know the LORD.

5Moreover, the pride of Israel testifies against him,
         And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity;
         Judah also has stumbled with them.

6They will go with their flocks and herds
         To seek the LORD, but they will not find Him;
         He has withdrawn from them.

7They have dealt treacherously against the LORD,
         For they have borne illegitimate children.
         Now the new moon will devour them with their land.

8Blow the horn in Gibeah,
         The trumpet in Ramah.
         Sound an alarm at Beth-aven:
         “Behind you, Benjamin!”

9Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke;
         Among the tribes of Israel I declare what is sure.

10The princes of Judah have become like those who move a boundary;
         On them I will pour out My wrath like water.

11Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment,
         Because he was determined to follow man’s command.

12Therefore I am like a moth to Ephraim
         And like rottenness to the house of Judah.

13When Ephraim saw his sickness,
         And Judah his wound,
         Then Ephraim went to Assyria
         And sent to King Jareb.
         But he is unable to heal you,
         Or to cure you of your wound.

14For I will be like a lion to Ephraim
         And like a young lion to the house of Judah.
         I, even I, will tear to pieces and go away,
         I will carry away, and there will be none to deliver.

15I will go away and return to My place
         Until they acknowledge their guilt and seek My face;
         In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.

NASB ©1995

American Standard Version
And the revolters are gone deep in making slaughter; but I am a rebuker of them all.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you have turned aside victims into the depth: and I am, the teacher of them all.

Darby Bible Translation
And they have plunged themselves in the corruption of apostasy, but I will be a chastiser of them all.

English Revised Version
And the revolters are gone deep in making slaughter; but I am a rebuker of them all.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.

World English Bible
The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I discipline all of them.

Young's Literal Translation
And to slaughter sinners have gone deep, And I am a fetter to them all. 'Physicians of no Value'
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