5 Your calf, O Samaria, is rejected!My anger is kindled against them.How long will they be incapable of innocence?
6 For it is from Israel;a craftsman made it,and it is not God!The calf of Samariawill be broken to pieces.
7 For they sow the wind,and they will reap the whirlwind.The standing grain has no headand will yield no flour.If it were to yield,foreigners would swallow it up.
8 Israel is swallowed up.Now they are among the nationsas a vessel in which there is no pleasure.
9 For they have gone up to Assyrialike a wild donkey alone by itself;Ephraim has hired lovers.
10 Though they hire among the nations,I will now gather them.They will begin to diminish due to the burdenof the king of princes.
11 Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin,they have become to him altars for sinning.