- 1. Set the Trumpet to thy mouth: hee shall come as an Eagle against the house of the Lord, because they haue transgressed my Couenant, and trespassed against my Lawe.
- 2. Israel shall crie vnto me, My God, we know thee.
- 3. Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemie shall pursue him.
- 4. They haue set vp Kings, but not by me: they haue made Princes, and I knew it not: of their siluer and their golde haue they made them idoles, that they may be cut off.
- 5. Thy calfe, O Samaria, hath cast thee off: mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it bee ere they attaine to innocencie?
- 6. For from Israel was it also, the workeman made it, therefore it is not God: but the calfe of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
- 7. For they haue sowen the winde, and they shall reape the whirlewinde: it hath no stalke: the budde shall yeeld no meale: if so be it yeeld, the strangers shall swallow it vp.
- 8. Israel is swallowed vp, now shal they be among the Gentiles, as a vessell wherein is no pleasure.
- 9. For they are gone vp to Assyria, a wilde Asse alone by himselfe; Ephraim hath hired louers.
- 10. Yea, though they haue 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 sinne, altars shall be vnto him to sinne.
- 12. I haue 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 eate it; but the Lord accepteth them not: now will he remember their iniquitie, and visite their sinnes: they shal returne to Egypt.
- 14. For Israel hath forgotten his maker, and buildeth temples; and Iudah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire vpon his cities, and it shall deuoure the palaces thereof.
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