8:2 To Me they cry, `My God, we -- Israel -- have known Thee.'
8:3 Cast off good hath Israel, an enemy pursueth him.
8:4 They have made kings, and not by Me, They have made princes, and I have not known, Their silver and their gold they have made to them idols, So that they are cut off.
8:5 Cast off hath thy calf, O Samaria, Burned hath Mine anger against them, Till when are they not capable of purity?
8:6 For even it [is] of Israel; an artificer made it, And it [is] not God, For the calf of Samaria is fragments!
8:7 For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none -- a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield - - strangers do swallow it up.
8:12 I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.
8:13 The sacrifices of Mine offerings! They sacrificeflesh, and they eat, Jehovah hath not accepted them, Now doth He remember their iniquity, And inspect their sin, They -- [to] Egypt they turn back.
8:14 And forget doth Israel his Maker, and buildeth temples, And Judah hath multiplied cities of defence, And I have sent a fire into his cities, And it hath consumed their palaces!