6For from Israel is even this; the workman made it, and it is no God; yes, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
7For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: he has no standing grain; the blade shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
8Israel is swallowed up: now are they among the nations as a vessel in which none delights.
9For they are gone up to Assyria, [like] a wild donkey alone by himself: Ephraim has hired lovers.
10Yes, though they hire among the nations, now will I gather them; and they begin to be diminished by reason of the burden of the king of princes.
11Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, altars have been to him for sinning.
12I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing.
