¹ Set the trumpet to thy mouth. [He cometh] as an eagle against the house of Jehovah, because they have transgressed my covenant, and rebelled against my law.

² They shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee; [we], Israel.

³ Israel hath cast off good: the enemy shall pursue him.

⁴ They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I knew it not; of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.

⁵ Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast [thee] off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will they be incapable of purity?

⁶ For from Israel is this also: -- a workman made it, and it is no God: for the calf of Samaria shall be [broken in] pieces.

⁷ For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; should it sprout, it would yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.

⁸ Israel is swallowed up: now are they become among the nations as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.

⁹ For they are gone up [to] Assyria [as] a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

¹⁰ Although they hire among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall begin to be straitened under the burden of the king of princes.

¹¹ Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.

¹² I have prescribed unto him the manifold things of my law: they are counted [as] a strange thing.

¹³ They sacrifice flesh [for] the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; Jehovah hath no delight in them. Now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

¹⁴ For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

¹ Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples.

² Sing to him, Sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works.

³ Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.

⁴ Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

⁵ Remember his marvelous works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,

⁶ you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

⁷ He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth.

⁸ He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

⁹ the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,

¹⁰ and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute; to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

¹¹ saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;"

¹² when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.

¹³ They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

¹⁴ He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,

¹⁵ "Don't touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!"

¹⁶ He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.

¹⁷ He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.

¹⁸ They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,

¹⁹ until the time that his word happened, and Yahweh's word proved him true.

²⁰ The king sent and freed him; even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

²¹ He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions;

²² to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.

²³ Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob lived in the land of Ham.

²⁴ He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.

²⁵ He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.

²⁶ He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

²⁷ They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

²⁸ He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn't rebel against his words.

²⁹ He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish.

³⁰ Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the rooms of their kings.

³¹ He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders.

³² He gave them hail for rain, with lightning in their land.

³³ He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.

³⁴ He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, without number,

³⁵ ate up every plant in their land; and ate up the fruit of their ground.

³⁶ He struck also all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their manhood.

³⁷ He brought them forth with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes.

³⁸ Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen on them.

³⁹ He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.

⁴⁰ They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.

⁴¹ He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.

⁴² For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.

⁴³ He brought forth his people with joy, his chosen with singing.

⁴⁴ He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,

⁴⁵ that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!