1 “Listen, you priests.Pay attention, people of Israel.Listen, royal family.You will all be judged.You have been like a trap at Mizpah.You have been like a net spread out at Mount Tabor.
2 You have done many bad things.So I will punish you all.
3 I know all about Israel.What they have done is not hidden from me.They all act like prostitutes.Israel has made itself unclean.
4 “And those bad things they have donekeep them from returning to their God.They are determined to be unfaithful to me.They do not know the Lord.
5 Israel’s pride testifies against them.The people of Israel will stumble because of their sin.The people of Judah will also stumble with them.
6 The people will come to worship the Lord.They will come with their sheep and cattle.But they will not be able to find him,because he has left them.
7 They have not been true to the Lord.Their children do not belong to him.So their false worshipwill destroy them and their land.