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 [is] of Israel; an artificer made it, And it [is] 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 [to] Asshur, A wild ass alone by himself [is] 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.