Israel Will Reap the Whirlwind

1The trumpet to thy mouth: as an eagle upon the house of Jehovah, because they passed by my covenant and they transgressed against my laws.

2Israel shall cry to me, My God, we knew thee.

3Israel rejected the good: the enemy shall pursue him.

4They made kings, and not from me: and they made princes, and I knew not: their silver and their gold they made to them images to cut off.

5Thy calf rejected, O Shomeron; mine anger was kindled against them: how long shall they not be able to be clean?

6For from Israel, and this workman made it, and it is not God: for the calf of Shomeron shall be broken in pieces.

7For they shall sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: no stalk to it: the sprout shall not make flour: perhaps it will make, strangers will swallow it down.

8Israel was swallowed down: now they were among the nations as a vessel no delight in it.

9For they went up to Assur, Ephraim a wild ass alone to himself: they hired those loving.

10Also if they will hire among the nations, now will I gather them, and shall they be weak a little from the lifting up of the king of the princes.

11Because Ephraim multiplied altars to sin, altars were to him to sin.

12I will write to him his multitude of my instructions; they were reckoned as a strange thing.

13The sacrifices of my gifts they will sacrifice flesh, and they will eat; Jehovah delighted not in them; now will he remember their iniquity, and he will review their sins: they shall turn back to Egypt.

14And Israel will forget him making him, and he will build temples; and Judah multiplied fortified cities: and I sent a fire upon his cities and it will consume its palaces.