¹“Put the trumpet to your lips !

Something like an eagle is over the LORD ’s house ,

because they have broken my covenant

and rebelled against my law .

²They cry to me , ‘My God, we , Israel , acknowledge you !’

³Israel has cast off that which is good .

The enemy will pursue him .

⁴They have set up kings , but not by me .

They have made princes , and I didn’t approve.

Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols ,

that they may be cut off .

⁵Let Samaria throw out his calf idol!

My anger burns against them !

How long will it be until they are capable of purity?

⁶For this is even from Israel !

The workman made it , and it is no God ;

indeed , the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces .

⁷For they sow the wind ,

and they will reap the whirlwind .

He has no standing grain .

The stalk will yield no head.

If it does yield , strangers will swallow it up .

⁸Israel is swallowed up .

Now they are amongst the nations like a worthless thing .

⁹For they have gone up to Assyria,

like a wild donkey wandering alone.

Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.

¹⁰But although they sold themselves amongst the nations ,

I will now gather them ;

and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.

¹¹Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning ,

they became for him altars for sinning .

¹²I wrote for him the many things of my law ,

but they were regarded as a strange thing .

¹³As for the sacrifices of my offerings ,

they sacrifice meat and eat it ,

but the LORD doesn’t accept them .

Now he will remember their iniquity ,

and punish their sins .

They will return to Egypt .

¹⁴For 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 will devour its fortresses.”