Hosea 8:1-14
8 “Put a horn to your mouth!+
One comes like an eagle against the house of Jehovah,+For they have violated my covenant+ and transgressed against my law.+
2 To me they cry out, ‘My God, we, Israel, know you!’+
3 Israel has rejected what is good.+
Let an enemy pursue him.
4 They have appointed kings, but not through me.
They have appointed princes, but I did not recognize them.
With their silver and their gold they have made idols,+To their own destruction.+
5 Your calf has been rejected, O Sa·marʹi·a.+
My anger flares up against them.+
How long will they be incapable of innocence?*
6 For this is from Israel.
A craftsman made it, and it is not God;The calf of Sa·marʹi·a will be reduced to splinters.
7 For it is wind that they are sowing,And they will reap a storm wind.+
No stalk produces ripe* grain;+Whatever sprouts produces no flour.
If any is produced, foreigners* will swallow it down.+
8 Israel will be swallowed down.+
Now they will be among the nations,+Like an unwanted vessel.
9 For they have gone up to As·syrʹi·a,+ like a lone wild donkey.
Eʹphra·im has hired lovers.+
10 Although they hire them from among the nations,I will now round them up;They will begin to suffer+ because of the burden imposed by king and princes.
11 For Eʹphra·im has multiplied altars to sin.+
They became his altars for sinning.+
12 I wrote for him the many things of my law,*But they were regarded as something strange.+
13 They offer sacrificial gifts to me, and they eat the meat,But Jehovah takes no pleasure in them.+
Now he will remember their error and punish them for their sins.+
They have turned back* to Egypt.+
14 Israel has forgotten his Maker+ and has built temples,+And Judah has multiplied fortified cities.+
But I will send fire into his cities,And it will consume the towers of each one.”+
Footnotes
^ Or “purity?”
^ Or “standing.”
^ Or “strangers.”
^ Or “instruction.”
^ Or possibly, “They will return.”