Hosea 8:6

For from Israel was it also Rather, was this also; i. e. this idol too (as well as the usurping kings) was Israel's work, unsanctioned by me. But the construction is very dubious, and the integrity of the text may well be questioned.

the workman made it; therefore it is not God Lit., -and it is not God." It has a merely fictitious existence (so Hosea 13:2). The sarcastic words of Hosea contain the germ of the vehement polemic of the later prophets against idolatry in general.

but … in pieces Rather, yea, Samaria's calf shall be (broken to) shivers (Targum, -chips of boards").