¹ Israel is an exhausted vine, he maketh fruit equal^◦ to himself; according·​·to the multitude of his fruit he has multiplied the altars; according·​·to the goodness of his land they have made·​·good the statues.

² Their heart is parted; now shall they be·​·guilty; He^◦ shall overturn^* their altars, He shall devastate their statues.

³ For now they shall say, We have no king, because^◦ we feared not Jehovah; and what should the king do to us?

⁴ They have spoken words, making· vain ·oaths in cutting^◦ a covenant; and judgment shall flourish as gall^* upon the furrows of the field.

⁵ The neighbors^◦ of Samaria shall be·​·afraid because of the heifers of Beth-aven; for the people of it shall mourn over it, and the idolatrous·​·priests of it that rejoiced on it, for^▵ the glory of it, because^◦ it is exiled from it.

⁶ It shall be also brought^◦ unto Assyria for a gift·​·offering to king Jareb; Ephraim shall receive^◦ shame, and Israel shall be·​·ashamed of his own counsel.

⁷ Samaria is cut·​·off^◦, her king is as the foam on the faces of the waters.

⁸ And the high·​·places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be blotted·​·out; the thorn and the thistle shall go·​·up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

⁹ Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah; there they stood; the battle in Gibeah against the sons of iniquity did not overtake them.

¹⁰ It is in My longing that I should chastise them; and the peoples shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two eyes.

¹¹ And Ephraim is as a heifer that is taught, loving to thresh; and I^◦ passed upon the goodness of her neck; I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, Jacob shall harrow.

¹² Sow for yourselves for justice, harvest according to mercy; newly·​·plow for yourselves newly·​·plowed ground; and it is time to inquire after Jehovah, until He come and instruct you with justice.

¹³ You have plowed wickedness, you have harvested perversity; you have eaten the fruit of denial; for thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy heroes.

¹⁴ And an uproar shall arise among^◦ thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be devastated, as Shalman devastated Betharbel in the day of battle; a mother was dashed upon her sons^*.

¹⁵ In·​·this·​·manner shall Bethel do to you on·​·account·​·of^◦ the evil, your evil; in the dawn being cut·​·off^◦ shall the king of Israel be cut·​·off^◦.