| Berean Study Bible | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1Put the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law. | 1Put the horn to your mouth! One like an eagle comes against the house of the LORD, because they transgress My covenant and rebel against My law. |
| 2Israel cries out to Me, “O our God, we know You!” | 2Israel cries out to Me," My God, we know You!" |
| 3But Israel has rejected good; an enemy will pursue him. | 3Israel has rejected what is good; an enemy will pursue him. |
| 4They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction. | 4They have installed kings, but not through Me. They have appointed leaders, but without My approval. They make their silver and gold into idols for themselves for their own destruction. |
| 5He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? | 5Your calf-idol is rejected, Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? |
| 6For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria. | 6For this thing is from Israel-- a craftsman made it, and it is not God. The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits! |
| 7For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up. | 7Indeed, they sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if they did, foreigners would swallow it up. |
| 8Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel. | 8Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like discarded pottery. |
| 9For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers. | 9For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey going off on its own. Ephraim has paid for love. |
| 10Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes. | 10Even though they hire lovers among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to decrease in number under the burden of the king and leaders. |
| 11Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning. | 11When Ephraim multiplied his altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning. |
| 12Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange. | 12Though I were to write out for him ten thousand points of My instruction, they would be regarded as something strange. |
| 13Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt. | 13Though they offer sacrificial gifts and eat the flesh, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their guilt and punish their sins; they will return to Egypt. |
| 14Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels. | 14Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has also multiplied fortified cities. I will send fire on their cities, and it will consume their citadels. |
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