1. “Set the trumpet to your mouth!He shall come like an eagle against the house of the Lord,Because they have transgressed My covenantAnd rebelled against My law.
2. Israel will cry to Me,‘My God, we know You!’
3. Israel has rejected the good;The enemy will pursue him.
4. “They set up kings, but not by Me;They made princes, but I did not acknowledge them.From their silver and goldThey made idols for themselves—That they might be cut off.
5. Your calf is rejected, O Samaria!My anger is aroused against them—How long until they attain to innocence?
6. For from Israel is even this:A workman made it, and it is not God;But the calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.
7. “They sow the wind,And reap the whirlwind.The stalk has no bud;It shall never produce meal.If it should produce,Aliens would swallow it up.
8. Israel is swallowed up;Now they are among the GentilesLike a vessel in which is no pleasure.
9. For they have gone up to Assyria,Like a wild donkey alone by itself;Ephraim has hired lovers.