[a]He has rejected your (A)calf, Samaria, saying,
“My anger burns against them!”
How long will they be incapable of (B)innocence?
For from Israel comes even this!
A (C)craftsman made it, so it is not God;
Assuredly, the calf of Samaria will be broken to [b]pieces.
For (D)they sow wind
And they harvest a (E)storm.
The standing grain has no [c]kernels;
It yields (F)no [d]grain.
If it were to yield, strangers would swallow it.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 8:5 Or Your calf has rejected you
  2. Hosea 8:6 Or splinters
  3. Hosea 8:7 Lit growth
  4. Hosea 8:7 Or meal

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