Your calf-idol[a](A) is rejected, Samaria.(B)
My anger burns against them.
How long will they be incapable of innocence?(C)
For this thing is from Israel—
a craftsman made it,(D) and it is not God.
The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits!

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Footnotes

  1. 8:5 Lit calf

The residents of Samaria(A) will have anxiety
over the calf(B) of Beth-aven.(C)
Indeed, its idolatrous priests rejoiced over it;
the people will mourn over it,
over its glory.(D)
It will certainly go into exile.

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