Hosea 10:5-8

New Living Translation

⁵ The people of Samaria tremble in fear
    for their calf idol at Beth-aven,^[a]
    and they mourn for it.
Though its priests rejoice over it,
    its glory will be stripped away.^[b]
6 This idol will be carted away to Assyria,
    a gift to the great king there.
Ephraim will be ridiculed and Israel will be shamed,
    because its people have trusted in this idol.
⁷ Samaria and its king will be cut off;
    they will float away like driftwood on an ocean wave.
⁸ And the pagan shrines of Aven,^[c] the place of Israel’s sin, will crumble.
    Thorns and thistles will grow up around their altars.
They will beg the mountains, “Bury us!”
    and plead with the hills, “Fall on us!”