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1 [Set] the trumpet to your mouth. [He will come] as an eagle against the house of the LORD [Yahweh], because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
2 Israel will cry to me, My God, we know you.
3 Israel has cast off [the thing that is] good: the enemy will pursue him.
4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew [it] not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
5 Your calf, O Samaria, has cast [you] off; my anger is kindled against them: how long [will it be] ere they attain to innocency?
6 For from Israel [was] it also: the workman made it; therefore it [is] not God: but the calf of Samaria will be broken in pieces.
7 For they have sown the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind: it has no stalk: the bud will yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers will swallow it up.
8 Israel is swallowed up: now will they be among the Gentiles as a vessel in which [is] no pleasure.
9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim has hired lovers.
10 Yes, though they have hired among the nations, now I will gather them, and they will sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.
11 Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin, altars will be to him to sin.
12 I have written to him the great things of my law, [but] they were counted as a strange thing.
13 They sacrifice flesh [for] the sacrifices of my offerings, and eat [it; but] the LORD [Yahweh] does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they will return to Egypt.
14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples; and Judah has multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it will devour the palaces of it.