6. The idol is something a craftsman made;it is not God.Israel’s calf-shaped idolwill surely be smashed to pieces.
7. “Israel’s foolish plans are like planting the wind,but they will harvest a storm.Like a stalk with no head of grain,it produces nothing.Even if it produced something,other nations would eat it.
8. Israel is eaten up;the people are mixed among the other nationsand have become useless to me.
9. Israel is like a wild donkey all by itself.They have run to Assyria;They have hired other nations to protect them.
10. Although Israel is mixed among the nations,I will gather them together.They will become weaker and weakeras they suffer under the great king of Assyria.
11. “Although Israel built more altars to remove sin,they have become altars for sinning.
12. I have written many teachings for them,but they think the teachings are strange and foreign.