| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Put the trumpet to your lips! Like an eagle the enemy comes against the house of the LORD, Because they have transgressed My covenant And rebelled against My law. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2They cry out to Me, "My God, we of Israel know You!" |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Israel has rejected the good; The enemy will pursue him. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They have set up kings, but not by Me; They have appointed princes, but I did not know it. With their silver and gold they have made idols for themselves, That they might be cut off. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5He has rejected your calf, O Samaria, saying, "My anger burns against them!" How long will they be incapable of innocence? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For from Israel is even this! A craftsman made it, so it is not God; Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7For they sow the wind And they reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; It yields no grain. Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Israel is swallowed up; They are now among the nations Like a vessel in which no one delights. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For they have gone up to Assyria, Like a wild donkey all alone; Ephraim has hired lovers. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Even though they hire allies among the nations, Now I will gather them up; And they will begin to diminish Because of the burden of the king of princes. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Since Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin, They have become altars of sinning for him. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Though I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My law, They are regarded as a strange thing. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13As for My sacrificial gifts, They sacrifice the flesh and eat it, But the LORD has taken no delight in them. Now He will remember their iniquity, And punish them for their sins; They will return to Egypt. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; And Judah has multiplied fortified cities, But I will send a fire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings. |
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