| New King James Version | NET Bible |
| 1“Set the trumpet to your mouth! He shall come like an eagle against the house of the LORD, Because they have transgressed My covenant And rebelled against My law. | 1Sound the alarm! An eagle looms over the temple of the LORD! For they have broken their covenant with me, and have rebelled against my law. |
| 2Israel will cry to Me, ‘My God, we know You!’ | 2Israel cries out to me, "My God, we acknowledge you!" |
| 3Israel has rejected the good; The enemy will pursue him. | 3But Israel has rejected what is morally good; so an enemy will pursue him. |
| 4“They set up kings, but not by Me; They made princes, but I did not acknowledge them. From their silver and gold They made idols for themselves— That they might be cut off. | 4They enthroned kings without my consent! They appointed princes without my approval! They made idols out of their silver and gold, but they will be destroyed! |
| 5Your calf is rejected, O Samaria! My anger is aroused against them— How long until they attain to innocence? | 5O Samaria, he has rejected your calf idol! My anger burns against them! They will not survive much longer without being punished, even though they are Israelites! |
| 6For from Israel is even this: A workman made it, and it is not God; But the calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces. | 6That idol was made by a workman--it is not God! The calf idol of Samaria will be broken to bits. |
| 7“They sow the wind, And reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no bud; It shall never produce meal. If it should produce, Aliens would swallow it up. | 7They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up. |
| 8Israel is swallowed up; Now they are among the Gentiles Like a vessel in which is no pleasure. | 8Israel will be swallowed up among the nations; they will be like a worthless piece of pottery. |
| 9For they have gone up to Assyria, Like a wild donkey alone by itself; Ephraim has hired lovers. | 9They have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey that wanders off. Ephraim has hired prostitutes as lovers. |
| 10Yes, though they have hired among the nations, Now I will gather them; And they shall sorrow a little, Because of the burden of the king of princes. | 10Even though they have hired lovers among the nations, I will soon gather them together for judgment. Then they will begin to waste away under the oppression of a mighty king. |
| 11“Because Ephraim has made many altars for sin, They have become for him altars for sinning. | 11Although Ephraim has built many altars for sin offerings, these have become altars for sinning! |
| 12I have written for him the great things of My law, But they were considered a strange thing. | 12I spelled out my law for him in great detail, but they regard it as something totally unknown to them! |
| 13For the sacrifices of My offerings they sacrifice flesh and eat it, But the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins. They shall return to Egypt. | 13They offer up sacrificial gifts to me, and eat the meat, but the LORD does not accept their sacrifices. Soon he will remember their wrongdoing, he will punish their sins, and they will return to Egypt. |
| 14“For Israel has forgotten his Maker, And has built temples; Judah also has multiplied fortified cities; But I will send fire upon his cities, And it shall devour his palaces.” | 14Israel has forgotten his Maker and built royal palaces, and Judah has built many fortified cities. But I will send fire on their cities; it will consume their royal citadels. |
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