Hosea 8:5-7

New English Translation

⁵ O Samaria, he has rejected your calf idol.
My anger burns against them!
They will not survive much longer without being punished,^[a]
even though they are Israelites!
⁶ That idol was made by a workman—it is not God!
The calf idol of Samaria will be broken to bits.

⁷ They sow the wind,
and so they will reap the whirlwind!
The stalk does not have any standing grain;
it will not produce any flour.
Even if it were to yield grain,
foreigners would swallow it all up.