Hosea 8:2-4

New Century Version

² They cry out to me,
    ‘Our God, we in Israel know you!’
³ But Israel has rejected what is good,
    so the enemy will chase them.
⁴ They chose their own kings
    without asking my permission.
They chose their own leaders,
    people I did not know.
They made their silver and gold into idols,
    and for all this they will be destroyed.