| English Standard Version | New Living Translation |
| 1Hear this, O priests! Pay attention, O house of Israel! Give ear, O house of the king! For the judgment is for you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor. | 1“Hear this, you priests. Pay attention, you leaders of Israel. Listen, you members of the royal family. Judgment has been handed down against you. For you have led the people into a snare by worshiping the idols at Mizpah and Tabor. |
| 2And the revolters have gone deep into slaughter, but I will discipline all of them. | 2You have dug a deep pit to trap them at Acacia Grove. But I will settle with you for what you have done. |
| 3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore; Israel is defiled. | 3I know what you are like, O Ephraim. You cannot hide yourself from me, O Israel. You have left me as a prostitute leaves her husband; you are utterly defiled. |
| 4Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not the LORD. | 4Your deeds won’t let you return to your God. You are a prostitute through and through, and you do not know the LORD. |
| 5The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt; Judah also shall stumble with them. | 5“The arrogance of Israel testifies against her; Israel and Ephraim will stumble under their load of guilt. Judah, too, will fall with them. |
| 6With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the LORD, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them. | 6When they come with their flocks and herds to offer sacrifices to the LORD, they will not find him, because he has withdrawn from them. |
| 7They have dealt faithlessly with the LORD; for they have borne alien children. Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields. | 7They have betrayed the honor of the LORD, bearing children that are not his. Now their false religion will devour them along with their wealth. |
| 8Blow the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah. Sound the alarm at Beth-aven; we follow you, O Benjamin! | 8“Sound the alarm in Gibeah! Blow the trumpet in Ramah! Raise the battle cry in Beth-aven ! Lead on into battle, O warriors of Benjamin! |
| 9Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure. | 9One thing is certain, Israel : On your day of punishment, you will become a heap of rubble. |
| 10The princes of Judah have become like those who move the landmark; upon them I will pour out my wrath like water. | 10“The leaders of Judah have become like thieves. So I will pour my anger on them like a waterfall. |
| 11Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to go after filth. | 11The people of Israel will be crushed and broken by my judgment because they are determined to worship idols. |
| 12But I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like dry rot to the house of Judah. | 12I will destroy Israel as a moth consumes wool. I will make Judah as weak as rotten wood. |
| 13When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king. But he is not able to cure you or heal your wound. | 13“When Israel and Judah saw how sick they were, Israel turned to Assyria— to the great king there— but he could neither help nor cure them. |
| 14For 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. | 14I will be like a lion to Israel, like a strong young lion to Judah. I will tear them to pieces! I will carry them off, and no one will be left to rescue them. |
| 15I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress earnestly seek me. | 15Then I will return to my place until they admit their guilt and turn to me. For as soon as trouble comes, they will earnestly search for me.” |
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