1. “Put a shofar to your mouth! Like a vulture he comes against the house of Adonai. For they overstepped My covenant and transgressed My Torah.
2. Will they cry out to Me, ‘My God, we—Israel—knew You’?
3. Israel has rejected goodness— an adversary will pursue him.
4. They crowned kings, but not by Me. They appointed princes I did not approve. Their silver and gold they made into idols— just so they would be cut down.
5. Samaria! Your calf is thrown down! My anger is kindled against them! How long will they be incapable of innocence?
6. For a craftsman from Israel made it, so it is no god. For the calf of Samaria will be splinters.
7. “For they sow wind, and reap a whirlwind. There is no mature grain— the sprout yields no meal. Should it produce anything, strangers would swallow it up.
8. Israel has been swallowed up! Now they are among the nations, like an ornament with no delight in it.