Hosea 8

1 Put the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.

To mouth your a horn like eagle over [the] house of Yahweh because they have transgressed covenant my and on law my they have rebelled.

2 Israel cries out to Me, “O our God, we know You!”

To me they cry out O God my we know you Israel.

3 But Israel has rejected good; an enemy will pursue him.

It has rejected Israel good an enemy he will pursue him.

4 They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.

They they have made kings and not from me they have installed leaders and not I knew silver their and gold their they have made for themselves idols so that it may be cut off.

5 He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

He has rejected calf your O Samaria it has burned anger my on them until when? not will they be able innocence.

6 For this thing is from Israel— a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.

For [are] from Israel and it a craftsman he made it and not [is] God it for fragments it will become [the] calf of Samaria.

7 For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.

For a wind they sow and a storm-wind they will reap standing grain not [belongs] to it growth not it will produce flour perhaps it will produce strangers they will swallow it.

8 Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.

It will be swallowed Israel now they are among the nations like a vessel [which] there not [is] pleasure in it.

9 For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.

For they they have gone up Assyria a wild donkey isolated to itself Ephraim they have hired (lovers *L(abh)*)

10 Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes.

also for they will hire among the nations now I will gather them and they have begun a few from [the] burden of a king princes.

11 Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.

For he has multiplied Ephraim altars for sinning they have become to him altars for sinning.

12 Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.

(I wrote *Q(k)*) for him ([the] numerous things of *Q(K)*) law my like a strange [thing] they are regarded.

13 Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.

[the] sacrifices of Gifts my they sacrifice flesh and they ate [it] Yahweh not he is pleased with them now he will remember iniquity their so he may punish sins their they Egypt they will return.

14 Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.

And he has forgotten Israel maker his and he has built palaces and Judah he has multiplied cities fortified and I will send fire on cities his and it will consume fortresses his.