4. They set up kings without my consent; they choose princes without my approval. With their silver and gold they make idols for themselves to their own destruction.
5. Samaria, throw out your calf-idol! My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of purity?
6. They are from Israel! This calf—a metalworker has made it; it is not God. It will be broken in pieces, that calf of Samaria.
7. “They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no head; it will produce no flour. Were it to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it up.
8. Israel is swallowed up; now she is among the nations like something no one wants.
9. For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has sold herself to lovers.