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^aPut the trumpet to your ¹lips!^bLike an eagle the enemy comes ^cagainst the house of the LORD,Because they have ^dviolated My covenantAnd rebelled against My ^eLaw.2 ^aThey cry out to Me,“My God, ^bwe of Israel know You!”3 Israel has rejected the good;The enemy will pursue him.4 ^aThey have set up kings, but not by Me;They have appointed officials, but I did not know it.With their ^bsilver and gold they have made idols for themselves,So that ¹they will be eliminated.5 ¹He has rejected your ^acalf, Samaria, saying,“My anger burns against them!”How long will they be incapable of ^binnocence?6 For from Israel comes even this!A ^acraftsman made it, so it is not God;Assuredly, the calf of Samaria will be broken to ¹pieces.7 For ^athey sow windAnd they harvest a ^bstorm.The standing grain has no ¹kernels;It yields ^cno ²grain.If it were to yield, strangers would swallow it.

8 Israel has been ^aswallowed up;They are now among the nationsLike a ^bvessel in which no one delights.9 For they have gone up to ^aAssyria,Like ^ba wild donkey all alone;Ephraim has ^cpaid fees for ¹lovers.10 Even though they ¹pay for allies among the nations,I will ^agather them up now;And they will begin ^bto diminishBecause of the burden of the ^cking of officials.

11 Since Ephraim has ^amultiplied altars for sin,They have become altars of sinning for him.12 Though ^aI wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My ^bLaw,They are regarded as a strange thing.13 As for My ^asacrificial gifts,They ^bsacrifice the flesh and eat it,But the LORD has taken no delight in them.Now He will ^cremember their guilt,And ^dpunish them for their sins;They will return to ^eEgypt.14 For Israel has ^aforgotten his Maker and ^bbuilt palaces;And Judah has multiplied fortified cities,But I will send a ^cfire on its cities, and it will consume its palatial buildings.