| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Put the horn to your mouth! One like an eagle comes against the house of the LORD, because they transgress My covenant and rebel against My law. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Israel cries out to Me," My God, we know You!" |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Israel has rejected what is good; an enemy will pursue him. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They have installed kings, but not through Me. They have appointed leaders, but without My approval. They make their silver and gold into idols for themselves for their own destruction. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Your calf-idol is rejected, Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For this thing is from Israel-- a craftsman made it, and it is not God. The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits! |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Indeed, they sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if they did, foreigners would swallow it up. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like discarded pottery. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey going off on its own. Ephraim has paid for love. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Even though they hire lovers among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to decrease in number under the burden of the king and leaders. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11When Ephraim multiplied his altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Though I were to write out for him ten thousand points of My instruction, they would be regarded as something strange. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Though they offer sacrificial gifts and eat the flesh, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their guilt and punish their sins; they will return to Egypt. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has also multiplied fortified cities. I will send fire on their cities, and it will consume their citadels. |
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