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1Set the trumpet to your lips![#Hos 4.6; 5.8; 6.7; Hab 1.8]
One like a vulture is over the house of the Lord ,
because they have broken my covenant
and transgressed my law.
2They cry to me,[#Hos 7.14]
“My God, we know you!”
3Israel has spurned the good;
the enemy shall pursue him.
4They made kings but not through me;[#Hos 2.8; 13.10, 11]
they set up princes but without my knowledge.
With their silver and gold they made idols
for their own destruction.
5Your calf is rejected, O Samaria.[#v 6 ; Jer 13.27; Hos 10.5; 13.2]
My anger burns against them.
How long will they be incapable of innocence?
6For it is from Israel,[#Hos 13.2]
an artisan made it;
it is not God.
The calf of Samaria
shall be broken to pieces.
7For they sow the wind,[#Isa 66.15; Hos 10.12, 13; Nah 1.3]
and they shall reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no heads;
it shall yield no meal;
if it were to yield,
foreigners would devour it.
8Israel is swallowed up;[#Jer 51.34; Hos 13.15]
now they are among the nations
as a useless vessel.
9For they have gone up to Assyria,[#Jer 2.24; Ezek 16.33; Hos 7.11]
a wild ass wandering alone;
Ephraim has bargained for lovers.
10Though they bargain with the nations,[#Jer 42.2; Ezek 16.37; 22.20]
I will now gather them up.
They shall soon writhe
under the burden of kings and princes.
11When Ephraim multiplied altars to expiate sin,
they became to him altars for sinning.
12Though I write for him the multitude of my instructions,[#v 1 ; Hos 4.6]
they are regarded as a strange thing.
13Though they offer choice sacrifices,[#Jer 7.21; Hos 4.9; 7.2; 9.3, 6, 7; 1 Cor 4.5; #8.13 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain]
though they eat flesh,
the Lord does not accept them.
Now he will remember their iniquity
and punish their sins;
they shall return to Egypt.
14Israel has forgotten his Maker[#Jer 17.27; Hos 2.13; 13.6]
and built palaces,
and Judah has multiplied fortified cities,
but I will send a fire upon his cities,
and it shall devour his strongholds.