5 Your calf is rejected, O Samaria!My anger is aroused against them—How long until they attain to innocence?
6 For from Israel is even this:A workman made it, and it is not God;But the calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.
7 “They sow the wind,And reap the whirlwind.The stalk has no bud;It shall never produce meal.If it should produce,Aliens would swallow it up.
8 Israel is swallowed up;Now they are among the GentilesLike a vessel in which is no pleasure.
9 For they have gone up to Assyria,Like a wild donkey alone by itself;Ephraim has hired lovers.
10 Yes, though they have hired among the nations,Now I will gather them;And they shall sorrow a little,Because of the burden of the king of princes.
11 “Because Ephraim has made many altars for sin,They have become for him altars for sinning.