8 Blow the horn in Gibe-ah,

the trumpet in Ramah.

Sound the alarm at Beth-aven;

tremble,r O Benjamin!

9 Ephraim shall become a desolation

in the day of punishment;

among the tribes of Israel

I declare what is sure.

10 The princes of Judah have become

like those who remove the landmark;

upon them I will pour out

my wrath like water.

11 Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment,

because he was determined to go after vanity.s

12 Therefore I am like a moth to Ephraim,

and like dry rot to the house of Judah.

13 When Ephraim saw his sickness,

and Judah his wound,

then Ephraim went to Assyria,

and sent to the great king.t

But he is not able to cure you

or heal your wound.

14 For I will be like a lion to Ephraim,

and like a young lion to the house of Judah.

I, even I, will rend and go away,

I will carry off, and none shall rescue.