1  Oh come, let us sing to the Lord;

let us ^fmake a joyful noise to ^gthe rock of our salvation!

2  Let us ^hcome into his presence with thanksgiving;

let us ^fmake a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!

3  For the Lord is ⁱa great God,

and a great King ^jabove all gods.

4  In his hand are the depths of the earth;

the heights of the mountains are his also.

5  The sea is his, for ^khe made it,

and his hands formed ^kthe dry land.

6  Oh come, let us worship and bow down;

let us ^lkneel before the Lord, our ^mMaker!

7  For he is our ⁿGod,

and we are the people of his ^opasture,

and the sheep of his hand.

^pToday, if you ^qhear his voice,

8  ^rdo not harden your hearts, as at ^sMeribah,

as on the day at ^tMassah in the wilderness,

9  when your fathers put me to the ^utest

and put me to the proof, though they had seen my ^vwork.

10  ^wFor forty years I loathed that generation

and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart,

and they have not known ^xmy ways.”

11  Therefore I ^yswore in my wrath,

“They shall not enter ^zmy rest.”

1  ^vHear this, O priests!

Pay attention, O house of Israel!

Give ear, O house of the king!

For the judgment is for you;

for ^wyou have been a snare at Mizpah

and a net spread upon ^xTabor.

2  And ^ythe revolters ^zhave gone deep into slaughter,

but ^aI will discipline all of them.

3  ^bI know Ephraim,

and Israel is not hidden from me;

for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore;

Israel is defiled.

4  ^cTheir deeds do not permit them

to return to their God.

For ^dthe spirit of whoredom is within them,

and they know not the Lord.

5  ^eThe pride of Israel testifies to his face;¹

Israel and ^fEphraim shall stumble in his guilt;

^fJudah also shall stumble with them.

6  ^gWith their flocks and herds they shall go

to seek the Lord,

^gbut they will not find him;

^hhe has withdrawn from them.

7  ⁱThey have dealt faithlessly with the Lord;

for they have borne alien children.

Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.

8  ^jBlow the horn in ^kGibeah,

the trumpet in ^lRamah.

Sound the alarm at ^mBeth-aven;

we follow you,² O Benjamin!

9  Ephraim shall become a desolation

in the day of punishment;

among the tribes of Israel

I make known what is sure.

10  The princes of Judah have become

like ⁿthose who move the landmark;

upon them I will pour out

my wrath like water.

11  Ephraim is ^ooppressed, crushed in judgment,

because he was determined to go after filth.³

12  But I am ^plike a moth to Ephraim,

and ^plike dry rot to the house of Judah.

13  When Ephraim saw his sickness,

and Judah ^qhis wound,

then Ephraim went ^rto Assyria,

and sent to the great king.⁴

^sBut he is not able to cure you

or heal ^qyour wound.

14  For I will be ^tlike a lion to ^uEphraim,

and like a young lion to the house of ^uJudah.

^vI, even I, will tear and go away;

I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.

15  ^wI will return again to my place,

until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,

and ^xin their distress earnestly seek me.