8Hosea 8

1`Unto thy mouth--a trumpet, As an eagle against the house of Jehovah, Because they transgressed My covenant, And against My law they have rebelled.Select Hosea 8:1

2To Me they cry, `My God, we--Israel--have known Thee.'Select Hosea 8:2

3Cast off good hath Israel, an enemy pursueth him.Select Hosea 8:3

4They 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.Select Hosea 8:4

5Cast off hath thy calf, O Samaria, Burned hath Mine anger against them, Till when are they not capable of purity?Select Hosea 8:5

6For even it is of Israel; an artificer made it, And it is not God, For the calf of Samaria is fragments!Select Hosea 8:6

7For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none--a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield--strangers do swallow it up.Select Hosea 8:7

8Israel hath been swallowed up, Now they have been among nations, As a vessel in which is no delight.Select Hosea 8:8

9For they--they have gone up to Asshur, A wild ass alone by himself is Ephraim, They have hired lovers!Select Hosea 8:9

10Also though they hire among nations, Now I gather them, and they are pained a little, From the burden of a king of princes.Select Hosea 8:10

11Because Ephraim did multiply altars to sin, They have been to him altars to sin.Select Hosea 8:11

12I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.Select Hosea 8:12

13The 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-- to Egypt they turn back.Select Hosea 8:13

14And 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!Select Hosea 8:14