6. They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh; but they won’t find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.
7. They are unfaithful to Yahweh; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.
8. “Blow the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah! Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin!
9. Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.
10. The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.
11. Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.
12. Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.
13. “When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.