Hosea 8:5-14

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

8Israel has been 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 15paid fees for 16lovers.10Even though they 17pay for allies among the nations, I will 18gather them up now; And they will begin 19to diminish Because of the burden of the 20king of officials.

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 guilt, 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, and it will consume its palatial buildings.