Hosea 10:4-6

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⁴ They make promises they don’t intend to keep. Therefore punishment will spring up among them like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field. ⁵ The people of Samaria tremble lest their calf idol at Beth-aven should be hurt; the priests and people, too, mourn over the departed honor of their shattered gods. ⁶ This idol—this calf-god thing—will be carted with them when they go as slaves to Assyria, a present to the great king there. Ephraim will be laughed at for trusting in this idol; Israel will be put to shame.