The judgment on the people of Israel
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📚“Put the trumpet✭to your mouth!
The enemy is coming like
an eagle✭ against the house
of the LORD,
because they have transgressed
my covenant✭, and rebelled✭ against my law.
2 📚✭Israel will cry out to me,
‘My God, we know you.’
3 📚Israel has rejected what is good✭.
The enemy will pursue him.
4 📚They have set up kings✭,
but not by me.
They have made princes,
but I did not acknowledge it.
With their silver and their gold
they have made idols for themselves,
with the result that
they will be cut off✭.
5 📚Your calf, ✭ O Samaria,
is rejected. My anger✭ burns
against them.
How long will it be before they
attain to innocence?
6 📚For this also is from Israel;
the workman✭ made it,
therefore it is not God✭.
That calf of Samaria will be
broken in pieces.
7 📚“For they have sown the wind,
and they will reap✭ the whirlwind.
The stalk has no bud;
it will never produce meal.
Even if it did produce meal
foreigners✭ would swallow it up.
8 📚Israel is swallowed up.
Now they will be among the Gentiles✭
like a vessel in which
no one takes pleasure.
9 📚For they have gone up to Assyria,
a wild donkey alone by itself.
Ephraim has hired lovers.
10 📚✭Yes, though they hire them
among the nations,
now I will gather them,
and they will begin to diminish✭
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.
12 📚I wrote✭ for him the great things
of my law,
but they were considered
something alien✭.
13 📚✭They sacrifice flesh as the sacrifices
for my offerings,
and eat it;
but the LORD does not
accept them.
Now he will remember✭
their wickedness,
and punish their sins.
They will return to Egypt✭.
14 📚For Israel has forgotten✭ his Maker✭,
and built temples✭;
and Judah has multiplied
fortified cities.
But I will send a fire on his cities,
and it will devour its palaces”.