1 - `Unto thy mouth--a trumpet, As an eagle against the house of Jehovah, Because they transgressed My covenant, And against My law they have rebelled.
2 - To Me they cry, `My God, we--Israel--have known Thee.'
3 - Cast off good hath Israel, an enemy pursueth him.
4 - They have made kings, and not by Me, They have made princes, and I have not known, Their silver and their gold they have made to them idols, So that they are cut off.
5 - Cast off hath thy calf, O Samaria, Burned hath Mine anger against them, Till when are they not capable of purity?
6 - For even it <FI>is<Fi> of Israel; an artificer made it, And it <FI>is<Fi> not God, For the calf of Samaria is fragments!
7 - For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none--a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield--strangers do swallow it up.
8 - Israel hath been swallowed up, Now they have been among nations, As a vessel in which is no delight.
9 - For they--they have gone up <FI>to<Fi> Asshur, A wild ass alone by himself <FI>is<Fi> Ephraim, They have hired lovers!
10 - Also though they hire among nations, Now I gather them, and they are pained a little, From the burden of a king of princes.
11 - Because Ephraim did multiply altars to sin, They have been to him altars to sin.
12 - I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.
13 - The sacrifices of Mine offerings! They sacrifice flesh, and they eat, Jehovah hath not accepted them, Now doth He remember their iniquity, And inspect their sin, They--<FI> to<Fi> Egypt they turn back.
14 - And forget doth Israel his Maker, and buildeth temples, And Judah hath multiplied cities of defence, And I have sent a fire into his cities, And it hath consumed their palaces!
