So call your brothers "Ammi,' and your sisters "Ruhamah.'"

"Call your mother to account, call her for she is not my wife, and I'm not her husband. Let her do away with her seductive looks and remove her adultery from between her breasts.

"It will come about at that time," declares the LORD, "that you will address me as "My husband,' and you will no longer call me "My master'.

"Ephraim is also like a silly dove, lacking sense: They call out to Egypt, and turn toward Assyria.

Your calf, Samaria, has been thrown away. My anger is burning against them. How long until they become pure again?

Because from Israel it was fashioned by craftsmen, it is not God; therefore Samaria's calf will be broken in pieces.

Destroyed will be the high places of Aven, that are the sin of Israel. Both thorn and thistle will grow up over their altars. They will call out to the mountains, "Cover us!' and to the hills, "Fall on us!'

My people are determined to turn away from me; though they call to the Most High, no one is worshiping.

but now they are sinning more and more, crafting idols from melted silver. Their idols are made with the most exacting skill, all of it the work of craftsmen. People say about them, "They offer human sacrifice, and kiss calf-shaped idols.'