5:8 Blow the ram’s horn in Gibeah!
Sound the trumpet in Ramah!
Sound the alarm in Beth Aven! 1
Tremble in fear, 2 O Benjamin!
5:9 Ephraim will be ruined in the day of judgment! 3
What I am declaring 4 to the tribes of Israel will certainly take place! 5
5:10 The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary markers.
I will pour out my rage on them like a torrential flood! 6
5:11 Ephraim will be oppressed, 7 crushed 8 under judgment, 9
because he was determined to pursue worthless idols. 10
5:12 I will be like a moth to Ephraim,
like wood rot 11 to the house of Judah.
5:13 When Ephraim saw 12 his sickness
and Judah saw his wound,
then Ephraim turned 13 to Assyria,
and begged 14 its great king 15 for help.
But he will not be able to heal you!
He cannot cure your wound! 16
5:14 I will be like a lion to Ephraim,
like a young lion to the house of Judah.
I myself will tear them to pieces,
then I will carry them off, and no one will be able to rescue them!