8:1 “Put the shofar to your lips! Like a vulture [he swoops down] on the house of Adonai, because they have violated my covenant and sinned intentionally against my Torah.
8:2 Will they cry out to me, ‘We are Isra’el, God, we know you’?
8:3 Isra’el has thrown away what is good; the enemy will pursue him.
8:4 They make kings, but without my authority; they appoint leaders, but without my knowledge. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, but these can lead only to their own destruction.
8:5 Your calf, Shomron, has been thrown away; my fury burns against them. How long will it be until they are able to make themselves clean?
8:6 Here is what Isra’el produces: a craftsman makes something — it’s a non-god; the calf of Shomron will be broken to pieces.
8:7 For they sow the wind, so they will reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no ears, so it will yield no flour; and if it does yield any, foreigners will swallow it up.
8:8 Isra’el is swallowed up; now they are among the Goyim like a vessel nobody wants.
8:9 For they have gone up to Ashur; like a wild donkey, alone by itself, Efrayim has bargained for lovers.
8:10 But even if they bargain among the Goyim, now I will round them up. Soon they will start to feel the burden of these kings and leaders.
8:11 For Efrayim keeps building altars for sin; yes, altars are sinful for him.
8:12 I write him so many things from my Torah, yet he considers them foreign.
8:13 They offer me sacrifices of flesh and eat them, but Adonai does not accept them. Now he will recall their crimes and punish their sins — they will return to Egypt.
8:14 For Isra’el forgot his maker and built palaces; and Y’hudah made more fortified cities; but I will send fire on his cities, and it will consume their strongholds.”
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