6. For itself also is the invention of Israel: a workman made it, and it is no god: for the calf of Samaria shall be turned to spiders' webs.
7. For they shall sow wind, and reap a whirlwind, there is no standing stalk in it, the bud shall yield no meal; end if it should yield, strangers shall eat it.
8. Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations like an unclean vessel.
9. For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath given gifts to his lovers.
10. But even though they shall have hired the nations, now will I gather them together: and they shall rest a while from the burden of the king, and the princes.
11. Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin: altars are become to him unto sin.
12. I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been accounted as foreign.
13. They shall offer victims, they shall sacrifice flesh, and shall eat it, and the Lord will not receive them: now will he remember their iniquity, and will visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
14. And Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and hath built temples: and Juda hath built many fenced cities: and I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the houses thereof.