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1 Set the trumpet to thy mouth.
He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord,
Because they have transgressed my covenant,
And trespassed against my law.
2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.
3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good:
The enemy shall pursue him.
4 They have set up kings, but not by me:
They have made princes, and I knew it not:
Of their silver and their gold have they made them idols,
That they may be cut off.
5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off;
Mine anger is kindled against them:
How long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
6 For from Israel was it also:
The workman made it; therefore it is not God:
But the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind:
It hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal:
If so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
8 Israel is swallowed up:
Now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself:
Ephraim hath hired lovers.
10 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them,
And they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.
11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin,
Altars shall be unto him to sin.
12 I have written to him the great things of my law,
But they were counted as a strange thing.
13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it;
But the Lord accepteth them not;
Now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins:
They shall return to Egypt.
14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples;
And Judah hath multiplied fenced cities:
But I will send a fire upon his cities,
And it shall devour the palaces thereof.

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