When I would have healed Yisrael, then the iniquity of Efrayim was discovered, and the wickedness of Shomron: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.
Hear ye this, O kohanim; and hearken, ye house of Yisrael; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tavor.
After two days was the Feast of the Passover, and of Matzah: and the chief kohanim and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Yerushalayim: and the hand of our Elohim was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.
And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to Elohim with one accord, and said, YY , thou art Elohim, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:
There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.