¹ set the trumpet to your mouth. He will come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. ² Israel will cry to me, My God, we know you. ³ Israel has cast off the thing that is good: the enemy will 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 your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency? ⁶ For from Israel was it also: the workman made it therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria will be broken in pieces. ⁷ For they have sown the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind: it has no stalk: the bud will produce no meal: if so be it produce, the strangers will swallow it up. ⁸ Israel is swallowed up: now will they be among the Gentiles as a vessel in which is no pleasure. ⁹ For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim has hired lovers. ¹⁰ Yes, even though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they will sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes. ¹¹ Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin, altars will be to him to sin. ¹² I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. ¹³ They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepts them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they will return to Egypt. ¹⁴ For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples; and Judah has multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour the palaces of it.