3 Then said the Lord unto me, aGo yet, love a woman beloved of her bfriend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the Lord toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love cflagons †of wine. 2 So I dbought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for ean homer of barley, and an †half homer of barley: 3 And I said unto her, Thou shalt fabide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee. 4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days gwithout a king, and without a prince, and ggwithout a sacrifice, and without †han image, and without an ijephod, and without jkteraphim: 5 kkAfterward shall the children of Israel return, and lseek the Lord their God, and mDavid their king; and nshall fear the Lord and ohis goodness pin the latter days.

4 *aHear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel:

For aathe Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land,

Because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor bknowledge of God in the land.

2  cBy swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out,

And †blood toucheth blood.

3  Therefore dshall the land mourn,

And deevery one that dwelleth therein fshall languish,

eghWith the beasts of the field, and ehwith the fowls of heaven;

Yea, ehthe fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

4  Yet ilet no man strive, nor reprove another:

For kthy people are as lthey that strive with the priest.

5  Therefore shalt thou fall in the day,

And the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night,

And I will †destroy mthy mother.

6  My people are †destroyed nfor lack of knowledge:

Because thou hast rejected knowledge,

I will also reject thee, that othou shalt be no priest to me:

Seeing pthou hast forgotten the law of thy God,

I will also forget thy children.

7  qAs they were increased, so they sinned against me:

rTherefore will I change their glory into shame.

8  They seat up the sin of my people,

And they †tset their heart on their iniquity.

9  uAnd there shall be, ulike people, like priest:

And vI will †punish them for their ways,

And v†reward them their doings.

10  For wthey shall eat, and not have enough:

They shall commit whoredom, and shall not xincrease:

Because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.

11  yWhoredom and yzwine and anew wine btake away the heart.

12  My people cask counsel at their dstocks,

And etheir staff declareth unto them:

For fthe spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err,

And they have gone a whoring from under their God.

13  gThey sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains,

And burn incense upon the hills,

Under hoaks and ipoplars and kelms,

Because the shadow thereof is good:

Therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom,

And lyour spouses shall commit adultery.

14  ||I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom,

Nor your spouses when they commit adultery:

For themselves mare separated with whores,

And they sacrifice with harlots:

Therefore nthe people that doth not understand shall ||fall.

15  Though thou, Israel, play the harlot,

Yet let not Judah nnoffend;

And come not ye unto opGilgal,

Neither go ye up to pqBeth-aven,

rNor swear, The Lord liveth.

16  For Israel sslideth back tas a backsliding heifer:

Now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

17  uEphraim is joined to idols:

vLet him alone.

18  Their drink †is sour: they have committed whoredom continually:

wHer †rulers with shame do love, xGive ye.

19  yThe wind hath bound her up in zher wings,

And athey shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

5 aHear ye this, O priests;

And hearken, ye house of Israel;

And give ye ear, O house of the king;

For judgment is toward you,

Because bye have been ca snare on dMizpah,

And ea net spread upon fTabor.

2  And gthe revolters hare profound to make slaughter,

||Though I have been †a rebuker of them all.

3  iI know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me:

For now, kO Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and kIsrael is defiled.

4  †||They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God:

For lthe spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them,

And they have not known the Lord.

5  And mthe pride of Israel doth testify nto his face:

Therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity;

Judah also shall fall with them.

6  They shall go owith their flocks and with their herds pto seek the Lord;

pBut they shall not find him; pphe hath withdrawn himself from them.

7  They have qdealt treacherously against the Lord:

For they have begotten strange children:

Now shall ra month devour them with their portions.

8  sBlow ye tthe cornet in uGibeah,

And vthe trumpet in wRamah:

xCry aloud at yBeth-aven,

zAfter thee, O Benjamin.

9  Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke:

Among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.

10  The princes of Judah were like athem that remove the bound:

Therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

11  Ephraim is boppressed and bbroken in judgment,

Because he willingly walked after cthe commandment.

12  Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as dea moth,

And to the house of Judah as ||drottenness.

13  When Ephraim saw his sickness,

And Judah saw his fwound,

Then went Ephraim gto the Assyrian,

And hsent ||to king Jareb:

Yet could he not heal you,

Nor cure you of your fwound.

14  For kI will be unto Ephraim as la lion,

And as a young lion to the house of Judah:

mI, even I, will tear and go away;

I will take away, and mnone shall rescue him.

15  I will go and return to my place,

†Till nthey acknowledge their offence, and seek my face:

oIn their affliction they will pseek me early.