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1Put the ram’s horn to your mouth![#8:1 Hs 5:8]
One like an eagle comes
against the house of the Lord ,
because they transgress my covenant
and rebel against my law.
2Israel cries out to me,[#8:2 Hs 7:14]
‘My God, we know you! ’
3Israel has rejected what is good;[#8:3 Hs 3:5]
an enemy will pursue him.
4They have installed kings,[#8:4 Hs 13:10–11]
but not through me.
They have appointed leaders,
but without my approval.
They make their silver and gold
into idols for themselves
for their own destruction.
5Your calf-idol , is rejected, Samaria.[#8:5 Lit calf; #8:5 Hs 10:5; 13:2; #8:5 1Kg 12:28–29; Hs 7:1]
My anger burns against them.
How long will they be incapable of innocence?
6For this thing is from Israel –
a craftsman made it, and it is not God.
The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits!
7Indeed, they sow the wind[#8:7 Hs 10:13]
and reap the whirlwind.
There is no standing corn;
what sprouts fails to yield flour.
Even if it did,
foreigners would swallow it up.
8Israel is swallowed up![#8:8 Jr 51:34]
Now they are among the nations
like discarded pottery.
9For they have gone up to Assyria[#8:9 Hs 7:11]
like a wild donkey going off on its own.
Ephraim has paid for love.
10Even though they hire lovers among the nations,
I will now round them up,
and they will begin to decrease in number
under the burden of the king and leaders.
11When Ephraim multiplied his altars for sin,[#8:11 Hs 10:1; 12:11]
they became his altars for sinning.
12Though I were to write out for him
ten thousand points of my instruction,
they would be regarded as something strange.
13Though they offer sacrificial gifts ,[#8:13 Hb obscure; #8:13 Hs 5:6; 9:4]
and eat the flesh,
the Lord does not accept them.
Now he will remember their guilt
and punish their sins;
they will return to Egypt.
14Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces;[#8:14 Hs 2:13; 4:6; 13:6; #8:14 Is 9:9–10]
Judah has also multiplied fortified cities.
I will send fire on their cities,
and it will consume their citadels.