Your calf-idol[a](A) is rejected, Samaria.(B)
My anger burns against them.
How long will they be incapable of innocence?(C)
For this thing is from Israel—
a craftsman made it,(D) and it is not God.
The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits!

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  1. 8:5 Lit calf

Samaria, throw out your calf-idol!(A)
    My anger burns against them.
How long will they be incapable of purity?(B)
    They are from Israel!
This calf—a metalworker has made it;
    it is not God.(C)
It will be broken in pieces,
    that calf(D) of Samaria.(E)

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Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

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The residents of Samaria(A) will have anxiety
over the calf(B) of Beth-aven.(C)
Indeed, its idolatrous priests rejoiced over it;
the people will mourn over it,
over its glory.(D)
It will certainly go into exile.

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The people who live in Samaria fear
    for the calf-idol(A) of Beth Aven.[a](B)
Its people will mourn over it,
    and so will its idolatrous priests,(C)
those who had rejoiced over its splendor,
    because it is taken from them into exile.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 10:5 Beth Aven means house of wickedness (a derogatory name for Bethel, which means house of God).

The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.

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Samaria’s king will disappear[a](A)
like foam[b] on the surface of the water.

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  1. 10:7 Or will be cut off
  2. 10:7 Or a stick

Samaria’s king will be destroyed,(A)
    swept away like a twig on the surface of the waters.

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As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.

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16 Samaria(A) will bear her guilt(B)
because she has rebelled against her God.(C)
They will fall by the sword;(D)
their children will be dashed to pieces,(E)
and their pregnant women ripped open.(F)

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16 The people of Samaria(A) must bear their guilt,(B)
    because they have rebelled(C) against their God.
They will fall by the sword;(D)
    their little ones will be dashed(E) to the ground,
    their pregnant women(F) ripped open.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:16 In Hebrew texts this verse (13:16) is numbered 14:1.

16 Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

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