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

^5 (J)The pride of Israel testifies to his face;^[a]
    Israel and ^(K)Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt;
    ^(L)Judah also shall stumble with them.
^6 (M)With their flocks and herds they shall go
    to seek the Lord,
^(N)but they will not find him;
    ^(O)he has withdrawn from them.
^7 (P)They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord;
    for they have borne alien children.
    Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.

^8 (Q)Blow the horn in ^(R)Gibeah,
    the trumpet in ^(S)Ramah.
Sound the alarm at ^(T)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 ^(U)those who move the landmark;
upon them I will pour out
    my wrath like water.
¹¹ Ephraim is ^(V)oppressed, crushed in judgment,
    because he was determined to go after filth.^[c]
12 But I am ^(W)like a moth to Ephraim,
    and ^(X)like dry rot to the house of Judah.

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

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

⁴ What shall I do with you, ^(AR)O ^(AS)Ephraim?
    What shall I do with you, O ^(AT)Judah?
Your love is ^(AU)like a morning cloud,
    ^(AV)like the dew that goes early away.
⁵ Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets;
    I have slain them ^(AW)by the words of my mouth,
    and my judgment goes forth as the light.
⁶ For ^(AX)I desire steadfast love^[e] and not sacrifice,
    ^(AY)the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

⁷ But ^(AZ)like Adam they ^(BA)transgressed the covenant;
    ^(BB)there they dealt faithlessly with me.
^8 (BC)Gilead is a city of evildoers,
    ^(BD)tracked with blood.
⁹ As robbers ^(BE)lie in wait for a man,
    so the priests band together;
they murder on the way to ^(BF)Shechem;
    they commit villainy.
¹⁰ In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
    ^(BG)Ephraim's whoredom is there; ^(BH)Israel is defiled.

¹¹ For you also, O ^(BI)Judah, ^(BJ)a harvest is appointed.

When ^(BK)I restore the fortunes of my people,
7 ^(BL)when I would heal Israel,
    the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed,
    and the evil deeds of ^(BM)Samaria,
for ^(BN)they deal falsely;
    the thief breaks in,
    and the bandits raid outside.
² But they do not consider
    that ^(BO)I remember all their evil.
Now ^(BP)their deeds surround them;
    ^(BQ)they are before my face.
³ By their evil ^(BR)they make ^(BS)the king glad,
    and the princes by their treachery.
^4 (BT)They are all adulterers;
    they are like a heated oven
whose baker ceases to stir the fire,
    from the kneading of the dough
    until it is leavened.
⁵ On the day of ^(BU)our king, the princes
    became sick with the heat of wine;
    he stretched out his hand with mockers.
⁶ For with hearts like an oven ^(BV)they approach their intrigue;
    all night their anger smolders;
    in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
⁷ All of them are hot as an oven,
    and they devour their rulers.
All ^(BW)their kings ^(BX)have fallen,
    and none of them calls upon me.

⁸ Ephraim ^(BY)mixes himself with the peoples;
    Ephraim is a cake not turned.
^9 (BZ)Strangers devour his strength,
    and ^(CA)he knows it not;
gray hairs are sprinkled upon him,
    and ^(CB)he knows it not.
^10 (CC)The pride of Israel testifies to his face;^{[f]
    (CD)}yet they do not return to the Lord their God,
    nor seek him, for all this.

¹¹ Ephraim is like a dove,
    ^(CE)silly and without sense,
    calling to ^(CF)Egypt, going to ^(CG)Assyria.
¹² As they go, ^(CH)I will spread over them my net;
    I will bring them down like birds of the heavens;
    ^(CI)I will discipline them ^(CJ)according to the report made to their congregation.
^13 (CK)Woe to them, for they have strayed from me!
    Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me!
^(CL)I would redeem them,
    but ^(CM)they speak lies against me.

^14 (CN)They do not cry to me from the heart,
    but ^(CO)they wail upon their beds;
for grain and wine they gash themselves;
    they rebel against me.
¹⁵ Although ^(CP)I trained and strengthened their arms,
    yet they devise evil against me.
¹⁶ They ^(CQ)return, but not upward;^[g]
    they are ^(CR)like a treacherous bow;
their princes shall fall by the sword
    because of ^(CS)the insolence of their tongue.
This shall be their derision ^(CT)in the land of Egypt.

^4 (CY)They made kings, ^(CZ)but not through me.
    They set up princes, but I knew it not.
With their silver and gold they made idols
    for their own destruction.
^5 (DA)I have^[h] spurned your calf, O Samaria.
    My anger burns against them.
^(DB)How long will they be incapable of innocence?
⁶ For it is from Israel;
a craftsman made it;
    it is not God.
^(DC)The calf of Samaria
    ^(DD)shall be broken to pieces.^[i]

⁷ For ^(DE)they sow the wind,
    and they shall reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no heads;
    it shall yield no flour;
if it were to yield,
    ^(DF)strangers would devour it.
^8 (DG)Israel is swallowed up;
    already they are among the nations
    as ^(DH)a useless vessel.
⁹ For ^(DI)they have gone up to Assyria,
    ^(DJ)a wild donkey wandering alone;
    Ephraim has hired lovers.
¹⁰ Though they hire allies among the nations,
    I will soon gather them up.
And ^(DK)the king and princes ^(DL)shall soon writhe
    because of the tribute.

¹¹ Because Ephraim ^(DM)has multiplied altars for sinning,
    they have become to him altars for sinning.
^12 (DN)Were I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands,
    they would be regarded as a strange thing.
¹³ As for my sacrificial offerings,
    ^(DO)they sacrifice meat and eat it,
    but the Lord does not accept them.
^(DP)Now he will remember their iniquity
    and punish their sins;
    ^(DQ)they shall return to Egypt.
¹⁴ For ^(DR)Israel has forgotten ^(DS)his Maker
    and ^(DT)built palaces,
and ^(DU)Judah has multiplied fortified cities;
    so ^(DV)I will send a fire upon his cities,
    and it shall devour her strongholds.

^(N)“Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles,
    and sing to your name.”

^(O)“Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people.”

^(P)“Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles,
    and let all the peoples extol him.”

^(Q)(R)“The root of Jesse will come,
    even he who arises to rule the Gentiles;
^(S)in him will the Gentiles hope.”