Hosea 8:5-7
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
5 He has rejected your calf,[a] Samaria!(A)
My wrath is kindled against them;
How long will they be incapable of innocence
in Israel?
6 An artisan made it,
it is no god at all.(B)
The calf of Samaria
will be dashed to pieces.
7 When they sow the wind,
they will reap the whirlwind;(C)
The stalk of grain that forms no head
can yield no flour;
Even if it could,
strangers would swallow it.
Footnotes
- 8:5 Calf: a cultic object introduced by Jeroboam I after the separation of the Northern Kingdom from the Southern Kingdom (1 Kgs 12:26–30; cf. Ex 32).
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