“Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns,
And I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.

And it will be, like people, like priest;
So I will punish them for their ways
And repay them for their deeds.

And as raiders wait for a man,
So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem;
Surely they have committed crime.

Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet;
Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways,
And there is only hostility in the house of his God.

You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped injustice,
You have eaten the fruit of lies.
Because you have trusted in your way, in your numerous warriors,

The Lord also has a dispute with Judah,
And will punish Jacob according to his ways;
He will repay him according to his deeds.

Whoever is wise, let him understand these things;
Whoever is discerning, let him know them.
For the ways of the Lord are right,
And the righteous will walk in them,
But transgressors will stumble in them.