| New American Standard Bible 1995 | New International Version |
| 1Put the trumpet to your lips! Like an eagle the enemy comes against the house of the LORD, Because they have transgressed My covenant And rebelled against My law. | 1"Put the trumpet to your lips! An eagle is over the house of the LORD because the people have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law. |
| 2They cry out to Me, "My God, we of Israel know You!" | 2Israel cries out to me, 'Our God, we acknowledge you!' |
| 3Israel has rejected the good; The enemy will pursue him. | 3But Israel has rejected what is good; an enemy will pursue him. |
| 4They have set up kings, but not by Me; They have appointed princes, but I did not know it. With their silver and gold they have made idols for themselves, That they might be cut off. | 4They set up kings without my consent; they choose princes without my approval. With their silver and gold they make idols for themselves to their own destruction. |
| 5He has rejected your calf, O Samaria, saying, "My anger burns against them!" How long will they be incapable of innocence? | 5Samaria, throw out your calf-idol! My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of purity? |
| 6For from Israel is even this! A craftsman made it, so it is not God; Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces. | 6They are from Israel! This calf--a metalworker has made it; it is not God. It will be broken in pieces, that calf of Samaria. |
| 7For they sow the wind And they reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; It yields no grain. Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up. | 7"They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no head; it will produce no flour. Were it to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it up. |
| 8Israel is swallowed up; They are now among the nations Like a vessel in which no one delights. | 8Israel is swallowed up; now she is among the nations like something no one wants. |
| 9For they have gone up to Assyria, Like a wild donkey all alone; Ephraim has hired lovers. | 9For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has sold herself to lovers. |
| 10Even though they hire allies among the nations, Now I will gather them up; And they will begin to diminish Because of the burden of the king of princes. | 10Although they have sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them together. They will begin to waste away under the oppression of the mighty king. |
| 11Since Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin, They have become altars of sinning for him. | 11"Though Ephraim built many altars for sin offerings, these have become altars for sinning. |
| 12Though I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My law, They are regarded as a strange thing. | 12I wrote for them the many things of my law, but they regarded them as something foreign. |
| 13As for My sacrificial gifts, They sacrifice the flesh and eat it, But the LORD has taken no delight in them. Now He will remember their iniquity, And punish them for their sins; They will return to Egypt. | 13Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD is not pleased with them. Now he will remember their wickedness and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt. |
| 14For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; And Judah has multiplied fortified cities, But I will send a fire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings. | 14Israel has forgotten their Maker and built palaces; Judah has fortified many towns. But I will send fire on their cities that will consume their fortresses." |
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