1Sound a trumpet to your palate like an eagle upon the house of the LORD, because they have passed over my covenant and transgressed my instruction.2To me they cry out, My God; we know you, O Israel.3Israel has rejected the good; an enemy will pursue him.4They have set up kings, but not from me; they have appointed rulers, yet I did not know it; with their silver and their gold they made idols for themselves, so that they might be cut off.5Your calf, O Samaria, has been rejected; my anger burns against them; how long will they be unable to obtain innocence?6For it is from Israel, and an artificer made it; it is not God; therefore the calf of Samaria will become fragments.7For they sow the wind and reap the whirlwind; standing grain yields nothing for them; a branch produces no flour; perhaps foreigners will swallow them up.8Israel has been swallowed up; now they have become like a vessel among the nations in which no one finds pleasure.9For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey wandering alone for itself; Ephraim has hired lovers.10Even though they hire themselves out among the nations, now I will gather them, and they will begin to suffer a little from the burden of king and rulers.11Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, the altars have become places of sin for him.12Though I write for him myriads of my instruction, they are regarded as something foreign.13They offer sacrifices of my gift and eat the flesh, but the LORD will not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they will return to Egypt.14Israel forgot his maker and built temples, while Judah multiplied fortified cities; therefore I will send fire upon his cities and it will consume her citadels.