1 "Pūskite trimitą! Erelis leidžiasi ant Viešpaties namų, nes jie sulaužė mano sandorą ir pažeidė įstatymą.

2 Izraelis šauksis manęs: ‘Mano Dieve! Mes pažįstame Tave’.

3 Izraelis atmetė tai, kas gera, priešas persekios jį!

4 Jie išsirinko karalius be manęs ir paskyrė kunigaikščius be mano žinios. Iš sidabro ir aukso jie pasidirbdino stabų sau patiems sunaikinti.

5 Samarija, tavo veršis atmetė tave. Mano rūstybė dega prieš tave, ar ilgai dar Izraelis neapsivalys?

6 Amatininkas padirbo jį, todėl jis ne dievas. Samarijos veršis bus paverstas dulkėmis.

7 Kas sėja vėją, pjaus audrą. Tuščios varpos neneš grūdų, o jei ir neštų, svetimieji juos surytų.

8 Izraelis prarytas. Dabar jis bus tarp pagonių kaip nenaudingas indas.

9 Jis išėjo į Asiriją kaip vienišas laukinis asilas. Efraimas pasisamdė meilužių.

10 Nors jie samdo svetimšalius, tačiau Aš juos greitai išsklaidysiu, jie nebeturės nei karaliaus, nei kunigaikščių.

11 Efraimas pasistatė daugybę aukurų, jie padėjo jam nusikalsti.

12 Aš surašiau jam didžius dalykus savo įstatyme, bet jis palaikė juos svetimais.

13 Jie aukoja aukas ir valgo mėsą, bet Viešpačiui jos nepatinka. Viešpats atsimins jų kaltes ir baus juos už nuodėmes­jie grįš į Egiptą.

14 Izraelis užmiršo savo Kūrėją ir statosi šventyklas, o Judas­sutvirtintus miestus. Bet Aš siųsiu ugnį į jų miestus, sudeginsiu jų rūmus".

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.