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1Put the horn to your mouth![#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,[#Hs 7:14]
“My God, we know You!”
3Israel has rejected what is good;[#Hs 3:5]
an enemy will pursue him.
4They have installed kings,[#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.[#Lit calf; #Hs 10:5; 13:2; #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[#Hs 10:13]
and reap the whirlwind.
There is no standing grain;
what sprouts fails to yield flour.
Even if they did,
foreigners would swallow it up.
8Israel is swallowed up![#Jr 51:34]
Now they are among the nations
like discarded pottery.
9For they have gone up to Assyria[#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,[#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[#Hb obscure; #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;[#Hs 2:13; 4:6; 13:6; #Is 9:9-10]
Judah has also multiplied fortified cities.
I will send fire on their cities,
and it will consume their citadels.