Hos 8
1
[Set] the trumpet to your mouth. As an eagle [he comes] against the house of YHWH,
because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
2
They shall cry to me, My God, we Israel know you.
3
Israel has cast off that which is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
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.
5
He has cast off your calf, O Samaria; mine anger is kindled against them: how long
will it be before they attain to innocency?
6
For from Israel is even this; the workman made it, and it is no God; yea, the calf
of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
7
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: he has no standing grain;
the blade shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
8
Israel is swallowed up: now are they among the nations as a vessel wherein none delights.
9
For they are gone up to Assyria, [like] a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim has hired
lovers.
10
Yea, though they hire among the nations, now will I gather them; and they begin to
be diminished by reason of the burden of the king of princes.
11
Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, altars have been to him for sinning.
12
I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange
thing.
13
As for the sacrifices of mine offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; but YHWH
accepts them not: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit 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 its castles.