Hosea 8:5-14

51He has rejected your 2calf, O Samaria, saying, “My anger burns against them!” How long will they be incapable of 3innocence?6For from Israel is even this! A 4craftsman made it, so it is not God; Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to 5pieces.7For 6they sow the wind And they reap the 7whirlwind. The standing grain has no 8heads; It yields 9no 10grain. Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.

8Israel is 11swallowed up; They are now among the nations Like a 12vessel in which no one delights.9For they have gone up to 13Assyria, Like 14a wild donkey all alone; Ephraim has 15hired 16lovers.10Even though they hire allies among the nations, Now I will 17gather them up; And they will begin 18to 19diminish Because of the burden of the 20king of princes.

11Since Ephraim has 21multiplied altars for sin, They have become altars of sinning for him.12Though 22I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My 23law, They are regarded as a strange thing.13As for My 24sacrificial gifts, They 25sacrifice the flesh and eat it, But the Lord has taken no delight in them. Now He will 26remember their iniquity, And 27punish them for their sins; They will return to 28Egypt.14For Israel has 29forgotten his Maker and 30built palaces; And Judah has multiplied fortified cities, But I will send a 31fire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.