¹Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He cometh as an eagle against the house of Jehovah, because they have transgressed my covenant, and rebelled against my law. ²They shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee; we, Israel. ³Israel hath cast off good: the enemy shall pursue him. ⁴They 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. ⁵Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will they be incapable of purity? ⁶For from Israel is this also: —a workman made it, and it is no God: for the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. ⁷For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; should it sprout, it would yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.

⁸Israel is swallowed up: now are they become among the nations as a vessel wherein is no pleasure. ⁹For they are gone up to Assyria as a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. ¹⁰Although they hire among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall begin to be straitened under the burden of the king of princes. ¹¹Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin. ¹²I have prescribed unto him the manifold things of my law: they are counted as a strange thing. ¹³They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; Jehovah hath no delight in them. Now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt. ¹⁴For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

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