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¹ [Set] the trumpet to your mouth. As an eagle [he comes] against the house of Yahweh, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.² They shall cry to me, My God, we Israel know you.³ Israel has cast off that which is good: the enemy shall pursue him.⁴ They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I did not know it: of their silver and their gold they have made for themselves idols, that they may be cut off.⁵ He has cast off your calf, O Samaria; my anger is kindled against them: how long will it be before they attain to innocence?⁶ For from Israel is even this; the workman made it, and it is not God; yes, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.⁷ For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: he has no standing grain; the blade shall yield no meal; if it does yield, strangers shall swallow it up.

⁸ Israel is swallowed up: now they are among the nations as a vessel wherein none delights.⁹ For they have gone up to Assyria, [like] a wild donkey alone by himself: Ephraim has hired lovers.¹⁰ Yes, though they hire among the nations, now I will gather them; and they begin to be diminished by reason of the burden of the king of princes.¹¹ Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, altars have been to him for sinning.¹² I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing.¹³ As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; but Yahweh does not accept them: now he will remember their iniquity, and visit their sins; they shall return to Egypt.¹⁴ For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities: but I will send a fire on his cities, and it shall devour the castles thereof.