1To your palate blow the trumpet like an eagle over the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my Torah.2They will cry out to me, "My God, we have known you, Israel."3Israel has cast off the good; the enemy will pursue him.4They made kings, but not from me; they appointed princes, but I did not know it. With their silver and their gold they made idols for themselves, so they would be cut off.5Your calf, Samaria—I have rejected it. My anger burns against them. How long will they be unable to be cleared?6For from Israel—an artisan made it. It is not God. The calf of Shimron will be shattered things.7For they sow the wind and reap its storm. There is none standing up to it; it will not make sprout flour. Perhaps it makes foreigners—they swallow it.8Israel is now swallowed up; they have become among the nations like a vessel in which no one delights.9For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey alone by himself. Ephraim has hired lovers.10Even though they give among the nations, now I will gather them, and they will begin to be relieved a little from the burden of the king and the officials.11For Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin; they have been altars for sin to him.12I wrote for him the great things of my Torah; they are regarded as a strange thing.13They sacrifice their offerings as flesh and eat them, but the LORD has not accepted them. Now he will remember their iniquity and visit their sin offerings; they will return to Egypt.14Israel forgot his Maker and built palaces, and Judah multiplied cities in distresses. I sent fire in his cities, and it devoured his palaces.