“Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.

Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.

Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets; I killed them with the words of my mouth. Your judgments are like a flash of lightning.

They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.

They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, ‘Give me a king and princes’?