8:3. Israel hath cast off the thing that is good, the enemy shall pursue him.
8:4. They have reigned, but not by me: they have been princes, and I knew not: of their silver and their gold they have made idols to themselves, that they might perish.
8:5. Thy calf, O Samaria, is cast off, my wrath is kindled against them. How long will they be incapable of being cleansed?
8:6. For itself also is the invention of Israel: a workman made it, and it is no god: for the calf of Samaria shall be turned to spiders’ webs.
8:7. For they shall sow wind, and reap a whirlwind, there is no standing stalk in it, the bud shall yield no meal; and if it should yield, strangers shall eat it.
8:8. Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations like an unclean vessel.
8:9. For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath given gifts to his lovers.
8:10. But even though they shall have hired the nations, now will I gather them together: and they shall rest a while from the burden of the king, and the princes.
8:11. Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin: altars are become to him unto sin.
8:12. I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been accounted as foreign.