6 With their flocks and herds they will go to seek Yahweh, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.
7 They have dealt faithlessly with Yahweh because they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.
8 Blow the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah. Sound the alarm in Beth-aven; look behind you, Benjamin.
9 Ephraim will be a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I will reveal what is true.
10 The princes of Judah have become like those who remove a landmark; on them I will pour out my wrath like water.
11 Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to go after filth.
12 But I am like a maggot to Ephraim and like rottenness to the house of Judah.