1 Die basuin aan jou mond! Soos 'n arend skiet dit neer op die huis van die HERE! Omdat hulle my verbond oortree het en teen my wet gesondig het.

2 My roep hulle toe: My God, ons, Israel, ken U.

3 Israel het die goeie verwerp -- die vyand sal hom agtervolg!

4 Hulle het konings aangestel, maar nie uit My nie; hulle het vorste gekies, maar sonder my wete; van hul silwer en goud het hulle vir hul afgode gemaak tot hulle verderf.

5 Jou kalf, o Samar¡a, is afskuwelik; my toorn is teen hulle ontvlam. Hoe lank sal hulle tot reinheid onbekwaam wees?

6 Want dit is ook uit Israel: 'n smid het dit gemaak, en dit is geen god nie; maar tot splinters sal dit word -- die kalf van Samar¡a.

7 Want hulle saai wind, maar hulle sal storm maai; dit het geen halm nie; wat uitspruit, lewer geen meel op nie; selfs as dit iets oplewer, sou vreemdelinge dit verslind.

8 Israel is verslind; alreeds is hulle onder die volke soos iets wat waardeloos is.

9 Want hulle het opgetrek na Assur -- 'n wilde-esel wat eiesinnig rondloop, is Efraim! -- hulle het onwettige bondgenootskappe gewerf.

10 Ook al werf hulle onder die volke, Ek sal hulle nou saamraap, en hulle sal begin minder word weens die laste deur die koning van die vorste opgelê.

11 Want Efraim het die altare vermenigvuldig om te sondig -- die altare het vir hom tot sonde geword.

12 Ek het hom tien duisende leringe van my wet voorgeskrywe, maar dit word as iets vreemds geag.

13 Slagoffers, My aangebied, offer hulle -- vleis is dit, en hulle eet; die HERE het geen behae daarin nie. Nou sal Hy aan hulle ongeregtigheid dink en oor hulle sondes besoeking doen; hulle sal teruggaan na Egipte.

14 Omdat Israel sy Maker vergeet en paleise gebou het, en Juda 'n menigte versterkte stede, daarom sal Ek 'n vuur in sy stede slinger wat sy paleise sal verteer.

1 Put the horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of the Lord; because they have gone against my agreement, they have not kept my law.

2 They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel.

3 Israel has given up what is good; his haters will go after him.

4 They have put up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, but I had no knowledge of it; they have made images of silver and gold, so that they may be cut off.

5 I will have nothing to do with your young ox, O Samaria; my wrath is burning against them; how long will it be before the children of Israel make themselves clean?

6 The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.

7 For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.

8 Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.

9 For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.

10 But though they give money to the nations for help, still I will send them in all directions; and in a short time they will be without a king and rulers.

11 Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.

12 Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.

13 He gives the offerings of his lovers, and takes the flesh for food; but the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep in mind their evil-doing and give them the punishment of their sins; they will go back to Egypt.

14 For Israel has no memory of his Maker, and has put up the houses of kings; and Judah has made great the number of his walled towns. But I will send a fire on his towns and put an end to his great houses.