⁴ They utter ^(A)mere words;
    with empty^[a] oaths they make covenants;
so ^(B)judgment springs up like poisonous weeds
    ^(C)in the furrows of the field.

⁵ The inhabitants of Samaria tremble
    for ^(A)the calf^[a] of ^(B)Beth-aven.
Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests—
    those who rejoiced over it and ^(C)over its glory—
    for it has departed^[b] from them.