Hosea 10:4-6

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⁴ They promise to do many things,
but they never do what they promise.
They make useless agreements.
So people accuse each other in the courts.
They are like weeds that grow in a farmer's field.
⁵ The people who live in Samaria will be afraid.
They will worry about their image of a calf at Beth Aven.^[a]
They will weep because it will go away from them.
The priests who serve the idol will cry too.
They know that an enemy will take away their great and beautiful idol.
⁶ Assyria's army will carry the idol away.^[b]
It will be a gift to give honour to Assyria's great king.
Ephraim's people will feel ashamed.
They will be sorry that they trusted in their wooden idol.