¹Put the ramshorn to your mouth;

War is coming like an eagle against the house of the Lord,

Because they have transgressed my covenant

And violated my law.

²To me they will cry,

“We – Israel – know you,

O God of mine.”

³Israel has cast off that which is good;

The enemy will pursue him.

⁴They have appointed kings,

But not from me;

They have appointed princes,

But I did not acknowledge it.

With their silver and their gold

They have made themselves idols,

Which is why they will be cut off.

⁵He has rejected your calf, Samaria.

My anger is kindled against them.

How long will they fail to attain to innocence?

⁶For the artificer who made it was from Israel

– A man, who is not God.

For Samaria's calf will become splinters.

⁷For they have sown wind,

But they will reap a hurricane.

It has no standing corn;

It is a shoot without yielding anything

By which one can make flour.

If perchance it does yield anything,

Strangers will swallow it up.

⁸Israel is swallowed up.

Now they are among the Gentiles,

Like an item in which there is no pleasure.

⁹For they went to Assyria,

Like a wild donkey on its own.

And Ephraim hired lovers.

¹⁰Even though they have hired lovers among the Gentiles,

Now I will gather them,

But they will profane themselves for a while,

Under the burden of the king of princes.

¹¹For Ephraim has increased the number of altars

With which to sin.

They have become altars

For him to sin.

¹²I have written down for him

The great things in my law,

But they were considered

Something strange.

¹³They offer the sacrifices which are gifts to me,

And they eat the flesh,

But the Lord does not accept them.

Now he will remember their iniquity,

And he will visit their sins.

They will return to Egypt.

¹⁴And Israel has forgotten its maker

And has built temples,

And Judah has increased its fortified cities.

So I shall send fire into its cities,

Which will devour her palaces.