3 Israel has rejected what is good; an enemy will pursue him.
4 They have installed kings, but not through Me.They have appointed leaders,but without My approval.They make their silver and gold into idols for themselvesfor their own destruction.
5 Your calf-idol is rejected, Samaria. My anger burns against them.How long will they be incapable of innocence?
6 For this thing is from Israel —a craftsman made it, and it is not God.The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits!
7 Indeed, 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 Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nationslike discarded pottery.
9 For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey going off on its own.Ephraim has paid for love.