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HOSEA ยท Chapter 8
8:1 Set the trumpet to your mouth. He shall come as an eagle against
the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and
trespassed against my law.
8:2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know you.
8:3 Israel has cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue
him.
8:4 They 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.
8:5 Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off; mine anger is kindled against
them: how long will it be before they attain to innocence?
8:6 For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it
is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
8:7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind:
it has no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers
shall swallow it up.
8:8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as
a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
8:9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim
has hired lovers.
8:10 Yea, 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.
8:11 Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto
him to sin.
8:12 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were
counted as a strange thing.
8:13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and
eat it; but the LORD accepts them not; now will he remember their iniquity,
and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
8:14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples; and Judah
has multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and
it shall devour the palaces thereof.
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