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Someone from Israel built
that idol for you,
    but only I am God.
And so it will be smashed
    to pieces.[a]

If you scatter wind
    instead of wheat,
you will harvest a whirlwind
    and have no wheat.
Even if you harvest grain,
    enemies will steal it all.

Israel, you are ruined,
and now the nations
    consider you worthless.

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Footnotes

  1. 8.6 smashed to pieces: Or “destroyed by fire.”

    They are from Israel!
This calf—a metalworker has made it;
    it is not God.(A)
It will be broken in pieces,
    that calf(B) of Samaria.(C)

“They sow the wind
    and reap the whirlwind.(D)
The stalk has no head;
    it will produce no flour.(E)
Were it to yield grain,
    foreigners would swallow it up.(F)
Israel is swallowed up;(G)
    now she is among the nations
    like something no one wants.(H)

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