| 1 | Set the trumpet to thy mouth. [He cometh] as an eagle against the house of Jehovah, because they have transgressed my covenant, and rebelled against my law. |
| 2 | They shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee; [we], Israel. |
| 3 | Israel hath cast off good: the enemy shall pursue him. |
| 4 | They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I knew it not; of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. |
| 5 | Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast [thee] off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will they be incapable of purity? |
| 6 | For from Israel is this also: -- a workman made it, and it is no God: for the calf of Samaria shall be [broken in] pieces. |
| 7 | For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; should it sprout, it would yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up. |
| 8 | Israel is swallowed up: now are they become among the nations as a vessel wherein is no pleasure. |
| 9 | For they are gone up [to] Assyria [as] a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. |
| 10 | Although they hire among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall begin to be straitened under the burden of the king of princes. |
| 11 | Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin. |
| 12 | I have prescribed unto him the manifold things of my law: they are counted [as] a strange thing. |
| 13 | They sacrifice flesh [for] the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; Jehovah hath no delight in them. Now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt. |
| 14 | For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. |
