Something like an eagle is over Yahweh’s house,

because they have broken my covenant,

and rebelled against my law.

The enemy will pursue him.

They have made princes, and I didn’t approve.

Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols,

that they may be cut off.

My anger burns against them!

How long will it be until they are capable of purity?

The workman made it, and it is no God;

indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

and they will reap the whirlwind.

He has no standing grain.

The stalk will yield no head.

If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.

like a wild donkey wandering alone.

Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.

I will now gather them;

and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.

they became for him altars for sinning.

but they were regarded as a strange thing.

they sacrifice meat and eat it;

But Yahweh doesn’t accept them.

Now he will remember their iniquity,

and punish their sins.

They will return to Egypt.

and Judah has multiplied fortified cities;

but I will send a fire on his cities,

and it will devour its fortresses.”