The Apostasy of Israel

1Set the trumpet to your mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed My covenant, and trespassed against My law.   agreement

2Israel shall cry to Me, My God, we know You.

3Israel has cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.

4They have set up kings, but not by Me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.   acknowledged; destroyed

5Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off; My anger is kindled against them: how long will it be before they attain to innocency?   pagan god

6For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

7For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it has no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

8Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.   other nations

9For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim has hired lovers.

10Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.

11Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin, altars shall be to him to sin.

12I have written to him the great things of My law, but they were counted as a strange thing.   foreign, alien

13They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of My offerings, and eat it; but the Lord accepts them not; now will He remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

14For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples; and Judah has multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.   fortified, walled; destroy