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.
9 For they have gone up to Assyria, Likeaa wild donkey alone by itself; Ephraim bhas hired lovers.
10 Yes, though they have hired among the nations, Now aI will gather them; And they shall1 sorrow a little, Because of the1 burden of bthe king of princes.
11 “Because Ephraim has made many altars for sin, They have become for him altars for sinning.
sown . . . reap— (Proverbs 22:8; Galatians 6:7). "Sow . . . wind," that is, to make the vain show of worship, while faith and obedience are wanting [CALVIN]. Rather, to offer senseless supplications to the calves for good harvests (compare Hosea 2:8); the result being that God will make them "reap no stalk," that is, "standing corn." Also, the phraseology proverbially means that all their undertakings shall be profitless (Proverbs 11:29; Ecclesiastes 5:16).
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