How do manufactured idols and foreign-seeming laws appear together?

A trumpet in the throat, like an eagle upon the Lord's house, announces the broken covenant and violated law. Israel will call My God, we know thee, yet has cast off good and faces pursuit by an enemy. Kings and princes reign without God; silver and gold become idols to their destruction. Samaria's calf is rejected under wrath. Made by a workman, it is no god and will become spiders' webs.

They sow wind and reap a whirlwind. No standing stalk or bud supplies meal; if it does yield, strangers consume it. Israel is swallowed and becomes an unclean vessel among nations. It goes to Assyria like a wild ass alone, and Ephraim gives gifts to lovers. Even if they hire nations, God will gather them, and they will rest a while from the burden of king and princes. That stated rest must not be reversed into increased oppression.

Ephraim's many altars become altars for sin. God's manifold laws are accounted foreign. Flesh victims are sacrificed and eaten but not received by the Lord, who remembers iniquity and visits sins; they will return to Egypt. Israel forgets its Maker and builds temples; Juda builds fenced cities. Fire is announced upon the cities to devour their houses. The images address this oracle's subjects rather than establish an exponential mathematical or universal political law.