The inhabitants of Shomron shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the kohanim thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Yerushalayim! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto an elohim that cannot save.
For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
They that swear by the sin of Shomron, and say, Thy Elohim, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beer-Sheva liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of YY in the hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with your golden calves, which Yarovam made you for elohim.
The high places also of Aven, the sin of Yisrael, shall be destroyed: the tshofar and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.