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Hosea

ESV

Chapter 8

1Set the trumpet to your lips! One like an eagle is over the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law. 2To me they cry, “My God, we—Israel—know you!” 3Israel has spurned the good; the enemy shall pursue him. 4They made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but I knew it not. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction. 5Your calf is rejected, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? 6For it is from Israel; a craftsman made it; it is not God. The calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces. 7For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no flour; if it were to yield, foreigners would devour it. 8Israel is swallowed up; now they are among the nations as a useless vessel. 9For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey wandering alone; Ephraim has hired lovers. 10Though they hire allies among the nations, now I will gather them; and they shall soon writhe under the burden of kings and princes. 11Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, altars have become to him altars for sinning. 12Though I write for him the ten thousand precepts of my law, they are regarded as a strange thing. 13As for my sacrificial offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it, but the LORD does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt. 14For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; so I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour her strongholds.