4 They have set up kings, but not by me.They have made princes, and I didn’t approve.Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols,that they may be cut off.
5 Let Samaria throw out his calf idol!My anger burns against them!How long will it be until they are capable of purity?
6 For this is even from Israel!The workman made it, and it is no God;indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
7 For they sow the wind,and they will reap the whirlwind.He has no standing grain.The stalk will yield no head.If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
8 Israel is swallowed up.Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
9 For they have gone up to Assyria,like a wild donkey wandering alone.Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
10 But although they sold themselves among the nations,I will now gather them;and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.