Hosea 8:4-7

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴ They made kings, but not through me;
    they set up princes, but without my knowledge.
With their silver and gold they made idols
    for their own destruction.
⁵ Your calf is rejected, O Samaria.
    My anger burns against them.
How long will they be incapable of innocence?
⁶     For it is from Israel,
an artisan made it;
    it is not God.
The calf of Samaria
    shall be broken to pieces.^[a]

⁷ For they sow the wind,
    and they shall reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no heads,
    it shall yield no meal;
if it were to yield,
    foreigners would devour it.