5The pride of Israel testifies to his face;
Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt;
Judah also shall stumble with them.
6With their flocks and herds they shall go
to seek Yahweh,
but they will not find him;
he has withdrawn from them.
7They have dealt faithlessly with Yahweh;
for they have borne alien children.
Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.
8Blow the horn in Gibeah,
the trumpet in Ramah.
Sound the alarm at Beth-aven;
tremble, O Benjamin!
9Ephraim shall become a desolation
in the day of punishment;
among the tribes of Israel
I declare what is sure.
10The princes of Judah have become
like those who remove the landmark;
upon them I will pour out
my wrath like water.
11Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment,
because he was determined to go after vanity.
12Therefore I am like a moth to Ephraim,
and like dry rot to the house of Judah.
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.
14For I will be like a lion to Ephraim,
and like a young lion to the house of Judah.
I, even I, will rend and go away,
I will carry off, and none shall rescue.
15I will return again to my place,
until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,
and in their distress they seek me, saying,
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