Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.