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5Hear this, O priests! Give heed, O house of Israel! Listen, O house of the king! For the judgment pertains to you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor, ²and a pit dug deep in Shittim; but I will punish all of them. ³I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore; Israel is defiled. ⁴Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they do not know the Lord. ⁵Israel’s pride testifies against him; Ephraim stumbles in his guilt; Judah also stumbles with them. ⁶With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the Lord, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them. ⁷They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon shall devour them along with their fields.