7 They have committed treason against the Lord, because they bore illegitimate children.Soon the new moon festival will devour them and their fields.
8 Blow the ram’s horn in Gibeah! Sound the trumpet in Ramah!Sound the alarm in Beth Aven!Tremble in fear, O Benjamin!
9 Ephraim will be ruined in the day of judgment!What I am declaring to the tribes of Israel will certainly take place!
10 The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary markers.I will pour out my rage on them like a torrential flood!
11 Ephraim will be oppressed, crushed under judgment,because he was determined to pursue worthless idols.
12 I will be like a moth to Ephraim, like wood rot to the house of Judah.
13 When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah saw his wound,then Ephraim turned to Assyria,and begged its great king for help.But he will not be able to heal you! He cannot cure your wound!