1 GLT “Put the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of Yahweh because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law. BSB BSB: Put the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.
2 GLT They cry out to me,‘My God, we in Israel know you.’ BSB BSB: Israel cries out to Me, “O our God, we know You!”
3 GLT Israel has rejected the good; the enemy will pursue him. BSB BSB: But Israel has rejected good; an enemy will pursue him.
4 GLT They have set up kings, but not by me. They have appointed princes, but I did not know. With their silver and gold they have made idols for themselves, so that they might be cut off.” BSB BSB: They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.
5 GLT “Your calf has been rejected, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? BSB BSB: He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?
6 GLT For from Israel is even this; a craftsman made it; it is not God! Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces. BSB BSB: For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.
7 GLT For they sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it yields no flour. If it were to yield, strangers would devour it. BSB BSB: For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
8 GLT Israel is swallowed up; they are now among the nations like a vessel in which no one delights. BSB BSB: Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.
9 GLT For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey all alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for herself. BSB BSB: For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.
10 GLT Even though they hire lovers among the nations, I will now gather them together. They will begin to waste away because of the burden of the king of princes. BSB BSB: Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes.
11 GLT Since Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin offerings, they have become altars for sinning for him. BSB BSB: Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.
12 GLT Were I to write for him my law ten thousand times, they would be regarded as something strange. BSB BSB: Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.
13 GLT As for my sacrificial gifts, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but Yahweh does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt. BSB BSB: Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.
14 GLT Israel has forgotten his Maker and has built palaces. Judah has multiplied fortified cities, but I will send fire on his cities; it will devour his fortresses. BSB BSB: Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.