3 Israel has rejected the good; The enemy will pursue him.
4 “Theya set up kings, but not by Me; They made princes, but I did not acknowledge them. From their silver and gold They made idols for themselves— That they might be cut off.
5 Your1 calf is rejected, O Samaria! My anger is aroused against them— aHow long until they attain to innocence?
6 For from Israel is even this: A aworkman made it, and it is not God; But the calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.
7 “Theya sow the wind, And reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no bud; It shall never produce meal. If it should produce, bAliens would swallow it up.
8aIsrael is swallowed up; Now they are among the Gentiles bLike a vessel in which is no pleasure.
kings . . . not by me—not with My sanction (I Kings 11:31; I Kings 12:20). Israel set up Jeroboam and his successors, whereas God had appointed the house of David as the rightful kings of the whole nation.
that they may be cut off—that is, though warned of the consequences of idolatry, as it were with open eyes they rushed on their own destruction. So Jeremiah 27:10, Jeremiah 27:15; Jeremiah 44:8.
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