- 1. O ye priestes heare this, take heede O thou housholde of Israel, geue eare O thou house of the king, for iudgement [is] against you, because you are become as a snare on Mizphah, and a spread net vpon the mount of Thabor.
- 2. They kyll sacrifices by heapes, and turne farre from the Lord, and I haue ben a rebuker of them all.
- 3. I knowe Ephraim well inough, and Israel is not hid fro me: for nowe O Ephraim thou art become an harlot, and Israel is defiled.
- 4. They wyll not geue their myndes to turne vnto their God: for the spirite of fornication [is] in the middest of them, and they haue not knowen the Lorde.
- 5. And the pryde of Israel doth testifie to his face: therefore both Israel and Ephraim shal fal for their wickednesse, and Iuda with them also.
- 6. They shall come with their sheepe and bullockes to seeke the Lorde, but they shall not finde hym: for he is gone from them.
- 7. They haue transgressed against the Lorde, and brought vp bastarde chyldren: a moneth therefore shall deuour them, with their portions.
- 8. Blowe with the shawmes at Gibea, and with the trumpet in Ramah, crye out at Bethauen, after thee O Beniamin.
- 9. In the tyme of the plague shall Ephraim be layde waste: in the tribes of Israel haue I shewed the trueth.
- 10. The princes of Iuda haue ben lyke them that remoue the lande markes: therefore wyll I powre out my wrath vpon them like water.
- 11. Ephraim is oppressed and broken in iudgement, because he wyllyngly folowed the commaundement.
- 12. Therefore wyll I be vnto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Iuda as a caterpiller.
- 13. When Ephraim sawe his sicknesse, and Iuda his disease, Ephraim went vnto Assur, and sent vnto kyng Iareb, yet coulde not he helpe you, nor ease you of your payne.
- 14. I wyll be vnto Ephraim as a lion, and as a lions whelpe to the house of Iuda: I [euen] I wyll spoyle, and go my away: I wyll take away, and no man shall rescue.
- 15. I wyll go and returne to my place, tyll they knowledge that they haue sinned and seeke me. In their aduersitie they shall early seeke me.
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