5:1`Hear this, O priests, and attend, O house of Israel, And, O house of the king, give ear, For the judgment is for you, For, a snare ye have been on Mizpah, And a net spread out on Tabor.
5:2And to slaughter sinners have gone deep, And I am a fetter to them all.
5:3I have known Ephraim, And Israel hath not been hid from me, For now thou hast gone a-whoring, Ephraim, Defiled is Israel.
5:4They give not up their habitual doings, To turn back unto their God, For a spirit of whoredoms is in their midst, And Jehovah they have not known.
5:5And humbled hath been the excellency of Israel to his face, And Israel and Ephraim stumble by their iniquity, Stumbled also hath Judah with them.
5:6With their flock and with their herd, They go to seek Jehovah, and do not find, He hath withdrawn from them.
5:7Against Jehovah they dealt treacherously, For strange sons they have begotten, Now consume them doth a month with their portions.
5:8Blow ye a cornet in Gibeah, a trumpet in Ramah, Shout, O Beth-Aven, after thee, O Benjamin.
5:9Ephraim is for a desolation in a day of reproof, Among the tribes of Israel I have made known a sure thing.
5:10Princes of Judah have been as those removing a border, On them I do pour out as water My wrath.
5:11Oppressed is Ephraim, broken in judgment, When he pleased he went after the command.
5:12And I am as a moth to Ephraim, And as a rotten thing to the house of Judah.
5:13And see doth Ephraim his sickness, and Judah his wound, And Ephraim goeth unto Asshur, And sendeth unto a warlike king, And he is not able to give healing to you, Nor doth he remove from you a scar.
5:14For I am as a lion to Ephraim, And as a young lion to the house of Judah, I -- I tear and go, I bear away, and there is no deliverer.
5:15I go -- I turn back unto My place, Till that they are desolate, and have sought My face. In their distress they do seek Me speedily!'
6:1`Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite, and He bindeth us up.
6:2He doth revive us after two days, In the third day He doth raise us up, And we live before Him.
6:3And we know -- we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain -- sprinkling earth.'
6:4What do I do to thee, O Ephraim? What do I do to thee, O Judah? Your goodness is as a cloud of the morning, And as dew rising early -- going.
6:5Therefore I have hewed by prophets, I have slain them by sayings of My mouth, And My judgments to the light goeth forth.
6:6For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.
6:7And they, as Adam, transgressed a covenant, There they dealt treacherously against me.
6:8Gilead is a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood.
6:9And as bands do wait for a man, A company of priests do murder -- the way to Shechem, For wickedness they have done.
6:10In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, There is the whoredom of Ephraim -- defiled is Israel.
6:11Also, O Judah, appointed is a harvest to thee, In My turning back to the captivity of My people!
7:1`When I give healing to Israel, Then revealed is the iniquity of Ephraim, And the wickedness of Samaria, For they have wrought falsehood, And a thief doth come in, Stript off hath a troop in the street,
7:2And they do not say to their heart, That all their evil I have remembered, Now compassed them have their doings, Over-against My face they have been.
7:3With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies -- princes.
7:4All of them are adulterers, Like a burning oven of a baker, He ceaseth from stirring up after kneading the dough, till its leavening.
7:5A day of our king! Princes have polluted themselves with the poison of wine, He hath drawn out his hand with scorners.
7:6For they have drawn near, As an oven is their heart, In their lying in wait all the night sleep doth their baker, Morning! he is burning as a flaming fire.
7:7All of them are warm as an oven, And they have devoured their judges, All their kings have fallen, There is none calling unto Me among them.
7:8Ephraim! among peoples he mixeth himself, Ephraim hath been a cake unturned.
7:9Devoured have strangers his power, And he hath not known, Also old age hath sprinkled itself on him, And he hath not known.
7:10And humbled hath been the excellency of Israel to his face, And they have not turned back unto Jehovah their God, Nor have they sought Him for all this.
7:11And Ephraim is as a simple dove without heart, Egypt they called on -- to Asshur they have gone.
7:12When they go I spread over them My net, As the fowl of the heavens I bring them down, I chastise them as their company hath heard.
7:13Wo to them, for they wandered from Me, Destruction to them, for they transgressed against Me, And I -- I ransom them, and they have spoken lies against Me,
7:14And have not cried unto Me with their heart, but howl on their beds, For corn and new wine they assemble themselves, They turn aside against Me.
7:15And I instructed -- I strengthened their arms, And concerning Me they think evil!
7:16They turn back -- not to the Most High, They have been as a deceitful bow, Fall by sword do their princes, From the insolence of their tongue, This is their derision in the land of Egypt!