Hosea 8
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1Put the horn to your mouth! One like an eagle comes against the house of the LORD, because they transgress My covenant and rebel against My law. 1Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
2Israel cries out to Me," My God, we know You!" 2Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.
3Israel has rejected what is good; an enemy will pursue him. 3Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
4They have installed kings, but not through Me. They have appointed leaders, but without My approval. They make their silver and gold into idols for themselves for their own destruction. 4They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
5Your calf-idol is rejected, Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? 5Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
6For this thing is from Israel-- a craftsman made it, and it is not God. The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits! 6For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
7Indeed, they sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if they did, foreigners would swallow it up. 7For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
8Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like discarded pottery. 8Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
9For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey going off on its own. Ephraim has paid for love. 9For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
10Even though they hire lovers among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to decrease in number under the burden of the king and leaders. 10Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.
11When Ephraim multiplied his altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning. 11Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.
12Though I were to write out for him ten thousand points of My instruction, they would be regarded as something strange. 12I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
13Though they offer sacrificial gifts and eat the flesh, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their guilt and punish their sins; they will return to Egypt. 13They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
14Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has also multiplied fortified cities. I will send fire on their cities, and it will consume their citadels. 14For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
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