3 Israel has cast off the good; the enemy shall pursue him.
4 They have reigned, but not by me; they have made dominion, and I knew it not; of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols that they may be cut off.
5 Thy calf, O Samaria, has cast thee off; my anger has been kindled against them until they could no longer be absolved.
6 For it is of Israel; and a workman made it who is not God: because the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind; they shall have no harvest; the fruit shall yield no meal: if so be it yields, the strangers shall swallow it up.
8 Israel shall be swallowed up; soon they shall be among the Gentiles as a vessel in which there is no pleasure.
9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass thinking only of himself; Ephraim has hired lovers.