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For it is of Israel; and a workman made it who is not God: because the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind; they shall have no harvest; the fruit shall yield no meal: if so be it yields, the strangers shall swallow it up.

¶ Israel shall be swallowed up; soon they shall be among the Gentiles as a vessel in which there is no pleasure.

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    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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