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Israel Reaps the Whirlwind

^1 (C1)Put the trumpet to your ^(F1)lips!
^(C2)Like an eagle the enemy comes ^(C3)against the house of the LORD,
Because they have ^(C4)transgressed My covenant
And rebelled against My ^(C5)law.

^2 (C1)They cry out to Me,
"My God, ^(C2)we of Israel know You!"

³ Israel has rejected the good;
The enemy will pursue him.

^4 (C1)They have set up kings, but not by Me;
They have appointed princes, but I did not know it.
With their ^(C2)silver and gold they have made idols for themselves,
That ^(F1)they might be cut off.

^5 (F1)He has rejected your ^(C1)calf, O Samaria, saying,
"My anger burns against them!"
How long will they be incapable of ^(C2)innocence?

⁶ For from Israel is even this!
A ^(C1)craftsman made it, so it is not God;
Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to ^(F1)pieces.

⁷ For ^(C1)they sow the wind
And they reap the ^(C2)whirlwind.
The standing grain has no ^(F1)heads;
It yields ^(C3)no ^(F2)grain.
Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.

⁸ Israel is ^(C1)swallowed up;
They are now among the nations
Like a ^(C2)vessel in which no one delights.

⁹ For they have gone up to ^(C1)Assyria,
Like ^(C2)a wild donkey all alone;
Ephraim has ^(C3)hired ^(F1)lovers.

¹⁰ Even though they hire allies among the nations,
Now I will ^(C1)gather them up;
And they will begin ^(C2)to ^(F1)diminish
Because of the burden of the ^(C3)king of princes.

¹¹ Since Ephraim has ^(C1)multiplied altars for sin,
They have become altars of sinning for him.

¹² Though ^(C1)I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My ^(C2)law,
They are regarded as a strange thing.

¹³ As for My ^(C1)sacrificial gifts,
They ^(C2)sacrifice the flesh and eat it,
But the LORD has taken no delight in them.
Now He will ^(C3)remember their iniquity,
And ^(C4)punish them for their sins;
They will return to ^(C5)Egypt.

¹⁴ For Israel has ^(C1)forgotten his Maker and ^(C2)built palaces;
And Judah has multiplied fortified cities,
But I will send a ^(C3)fire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.