4. They enthroned kings without my consent!They appointed princes without my approval!They made idols out of their silver and gold,but they will be destroyed!
5. O Samaria, he has rejected your calf idol!My anger burns against them!They will not survive much longer without being punished,even though they are Israelites!
6. That idol was made by a workman – it is not God!The calf idol of Samaria will be broken to bits.
7. They sow the wind,and so they will reap the whirlwind!The stalk does not have any standing grain;it will not produce any flour.Even if it were to yield grain,foreigners would swallow it all up.
8. Israel will be swallowed up among the nations;they will be like a worthless piece of pottery.
9. They have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey that wanders off.Ephraim has hired prostitutes as lovers.