chapter_Hosea_8
Hosea 8:1: Unto thy mouth &#8212; a trumpet, As an eagle against the house of Jehovah, Because they transgressed My covenant, And against My law they have rebelled. Hosea 8:2: To Me they cry, 'My God, we &#8212; Israel &#8212; have known Thee.' Hosea 8:3: Cast off good hath Israel, an enemy pursueth him. Hosea 8:4: They have made kings, and not by Me, They have made princes, and I have not known, Their silver and their gold they have made to them idols, So that they are cut off. Hosea 8:5: Cast off hath thy calf, O Samaria, Burned hath Mine anger against them, Till when are they not capable of purity? Hosea 8:6: For even it is of Israel; an artificer made it, And it is not God, For the calf of Samaria is fragments! Hosea 8:7: For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none &#8212; a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield &#8212; strangers do swallow it up. Hosea 8:8: Israel hath been swallowed up, Now they have been among nations, As a vessel in which is no delight. Hosea 8:9: For they &#8212; they have gone up to Asshur, A wild ass alone by himself is Ephraim, They have hired lovers! Hosea 8:10: Also though they hire among nations, Now I gather them, and they are pained a little, From the burden of a king of princes. Hosea 8:11: Because Ephraim did multiply altars to sin, They have been to him altars to sin. Hosea 8:12: I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned. Hosea 8:13: The sacrifices of Mine offerings! They sacrifice flesh, and they eat, Jehovah hath not accepted them, Now doth He remember their iniquity, And inspect their sin, They &#8212; to Egypt they turn back. Hosea 8:14: And forget doth Israel his Maker, and buildeth temples, And Judah hath multiplied cities of defence, And I have sent a fire into his cities, And it hath consumed their palaces!
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