| 8 | Hosea | ||
| 1 | Set the trumpet to your lips, for a vulture is over the house of Yahweh, because they have broken my covenant, and transgressed my law. | The LORD condemns Israel for Idol worship. Hs.8.1-14 | |
| 2 | To me they cry, My God, we Israel know you. | ||
| 3 | Israel has spurned the good; the enemy shall pursue him. | ||
| 4 | They made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but without my knowledge. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction. | ||
| 5 | I have spurned your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will it be till they are pure | ||
| 6 | in Israel? A workman made it; it is not God. The calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces. | ||
| 7 | For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads, it shall yield no meal; if it were to yield, aliens would devour it. | ||
| 8 | Israel is swallowed up; already they are among the nations as a useless vessel. | ||
| 9 | For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild ass wandering alone; Ephraim has hired lovers. | ||
| 10 | Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And they shall cease for a little while from anointing king and princes. | ||
| 11 | Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they have become to him altars for sinning. | ||
| 12 | Were I to write for him my laws by ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing. | ||
| 13 | They love sacrifice; they sacrifice flesh and eat it; but Yahweh has no delight in them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt. | ||
| 14 | For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour his strongholds. | ||
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