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The idol is something a craftsman made;
    it is not God.
Israel’s calf-shaped idol
    will surely be smashed to pieces.

“Israel’s foolish plans are like planting the wind,
    but they will harvest a storm.
Like a stalk with no head of grain,
    it produces nothing.
Even if it produced something,
    other nations would eat it.
Israel is eaten up;
    the people are mixed among the other nations
    and have become useless to me.

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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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