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.