The Calf Idol and Idolaters of Samaria Will Be Exiled

10:5 The inhabitants8 of Samaria will lament9 over the calf idol10 of Beth Aven.11

Its people will mourn over it;

its idolatrous priests will wail12 over it,13

because its splendor will be taken from them14 into exile.

10:6 Even the calf idol15 will be carried to Assyria,

as tribute for the great king.16

Ephraim will be disgraced;

Israel will be put to shame because17 of its wooden idol.18

10:7 Samaria and its king will be carried off19

like a twig20 on the surface of the waters.

10:8 The high places of the “House21 of Wickedness”22 will be destroyed;

it is the place where Israel sins.

Thorns and thistles will grow up over its altars.

Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!”

and to the hills, “Fall on us!”