1 ¶ Put the trumpet to your mouth. The enemy comes like an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and rebelled against my law.

2 Israel will cry to me, My God, we know you.

3 But Israel has spurned what is good: the enemy will pursue him.

4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, but I did not recognize them: they have made idols out of their silver and their gold, to their own destruction.

5 Your calf-god, O Samaria, is loathsome; my anger is kindled against them: how long can they go unpunished?

6 For it was made in Israel: 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: there is no standing grain: the buds will not produce any meal: if they did, foreigners would devour it.

8 ¶ Israel will be swallowed up: already they are among the Gentiles like discarded pottery.

9 For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering off on his own: Ephraim has hired lovers.

10 Yes, though they have hired allies among the nations, I will now gather them up, and they will suffer for a while under the burden of the king of princes.

11 Although Ephraim has made many altars for sin offerings, they became the altars on which he sins.

12 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were regarded as something strange.

13 They sacrifice flesh to me, so they can eat it; but the LORD does not accept them; now he will remember their sin, and punish their wrongdoing: they will go back to Egypt.

14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples; and Judah has built many fortified cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it will devour his palaces.