<p class="poetry">They made an image of a calf at Horeb,p> <p class="poetry">and worshiped a metal idol.p>

Jeroboam<n id="1" /> appointed his own priests to serve at the worship centers<n id="2" /> and to lead in the worship of the goat idols and calf idols he had made.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">He makes Lebanon skip like a calfp> <p class="poetry">and Sirion<n id="1" /> like a young ox.<n id="2" />p>

So I said to them, &#8216;Whoever has gold, break it off.&#8217; So they gave it<n id="1" /> to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">And the <sc>Lordsc> sent a plague on the people because they had made the calf<n id="1" /> &#8211; the one Aaron made.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">So Aaron approached the altar and slaughtered the sin offering calf which was for himself.

Now the woman<n id="1" /> had a well-fed calf<n id="2" /> at her home that she quickly slaughtered. Taking some flour, she kneaded bread and baked it without leaven.

Their legs were straight, but the soles of their feet were like calves&#8217; feet. They gleamed<n id="1" /> like polished bronze.

<p class="poetry">O Samaria, he has rejected your calf idol!p> <p class="poetry">My anger burns against them!p> <p class="poetry">They will not survive much longer without being punished,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">even though they are Israelites!p>

<p class="poetry">With what should I<n id="1" /> enter the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s presence?p> <p class="poetry">With what<n id="2" /> should I bow before the sovereign God?<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Should I enter his presence with burnt offerings,p> <p class="poetry">with year-old calves?p>

He accepted the gold<n id="1" /> from them,<n id="2" /> fashioned<n id="3" /> it with an engraving tool, and made a molten calf.<n id="4" /> Then they said, &#8220;These are your gods,<n id="5" /> O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.&#8221;p>

and said to Aaron, &#8220;Take for yourself a bull calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both flawless, and present them before the <sc>Lordsc>.

Then tell the Israelites: &#8216;Take a male goat<n id="1" /> for a sin offering and a calf and lamb, both a year old and flawless,<n id="2" /> for a burnt offering,

When I looked, you had indeed sinned against the <sc>Lordsc> your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf;<n id="1" /> you had quickly turned aside from the way he<n id="2" /> had commanded you!

even when they made a cast image of a calf for themselves and said, &#8216;This is your God who brought you up from Egypt,&#8217; or when they committed atrocious<n id="1" /> blasphemies.p>

<p class="poetry">Sound your battle cry<n id="1" /> against the wild beast of the reeds,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and the nations that assemble like a herd of calves led by bulls!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They humble themselves<n id="4" /> and offer gold and silver as tribute.<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">God<n id="6" /> scatters<n id="7" /> the nations that like to do battle.p>

<p class="poetry">A wolf will reside<n id="1" /> with a lamb,p> <p class="poetry">and a leopard will lie down with a young goat;p> <p class="poetry">an ox and a young lion will graze together,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">as a small child leads them along.p>

<p class="poetry">For the fortified city<n id="1" /> is left alone;p> <p class="poetry">it is a deserted settlementp> <p class="poetry">and abandoned like the desert.p> <p class="poetry">Calves<n id="2" /> graze there;p> <p class="poetry">they lie down therep> <p class="poetry">and eat its branches bare.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">I have indeed<n id="1" /> heard the people of Israel<n id="2" /> say mournfully,p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;We were like a calf untrained to the yoke.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">You disciplined us and we learned from it.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Let us come back to you and we will do so,<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">for you are the <sc>Lordsc> our God.p>

I will punish the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials,<n id="1" /> the priests, and all the other people of the land who passed between the pieces of the calf.<n id="2" />