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.
10 Even 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.