6. For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
7. For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
8. Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
9. For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
10. But although they sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.
11. Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.
12. I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing.