Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off - Israel had cast off God, his good. In turn, the prophet says, the “calf,” which he had chosen to be…

Your calf ... has cast you off.— Rather, is loathsome. Nothing can exceed the scorn of this outburst. The last clause sho…

The Prophet continues with the same subject, for he shows that Israel perished through their own fault, and that the crime, or the cause of destruc…

Your calf, O Samaria, has cast [you] off
Or, is the cause of your being cast off by the Lord, and of being cast out …

They promised themselves plenty, peace, and victory, by worshipping idols, but their expectations came to nothing. What they sow has no stalk, no b…