Hosea 8
1 Put the horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of the Lord; because they have gone against my agreement, they have not kept my law.
Put the trumpet to thy mouth! Like an eagle cometh an enemy against the house of Jehovah, Because they have transgressed my covenant, And have rebelled against my law.
2 They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel.
They shall say to me, My God, we know thee, we, thine Israel!
3 Israel has given up what is good; his haters will go after him.
Israel hath cast away what is good; The enemy shall pursue him.
4 They have put up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, but I had no knowledge of it; they have made images of silver and gold, so that they may be cut off.
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 themselves idols, That they may be brought to destruction.
5 I will have nothing to do with your young ox, O Samaria; my wrath is burning against them; how long will it be before the children of Israel make themselves clean?
An abomination is thy calf, O Samaria! Mine anger is kindled against them; How long will it be ere they can attain to purity!
6 The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.
For from Israel it came; The workman made it, and it is no God; Yea, into fragments shall the calf of Samaria be broken.
7 For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.
They have sown the wind, And they shall reap the whirlwind. They shall have no standing harvest; The ear shall yield no meal; If perchance it yield, strangers shall devour it.
8 Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.
Israel is swallowed up; Soon shall they become among the nations As a vessel which no one desireth.
9 For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.
For they have gone up to Assyria, Like a solitary wild-ass; Ephraim hireth lovers;
10 But though they give money to the nations for help, still I will send them in all directions; and in a short time they will be without a king and rulers.
But though they hire among the nations, Soon will I gather the nations against them; Then shall they rest a little while from the burden of their king, and their princes!
11 Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.
Ephraim hath built many altars for sin, Therefore shall he have altars for sin.
12 Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.
Though I write for him many laws, They are accounted as a strange thing;
13 He gives the offerings of his lovers, and takes the flesh for food; but the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep in mind their evil-doing and give them the punishment of their sins; they will go back to Egypt.
As to the sacrifices which they should offer me, they slay flesh and eat it; Jehovah hath no pleasure in them. Now will he remember their iniquity, And punish their sins; To Egypt shall they return.
14 For Israel has no memory of his Maker, and has put up the houses of kings; and Judah has made great the number of his walled towns. But I will send a fire on his towns and put an end to his great houses.
For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and builded palaces, And Judah hath multiplied fenced cities; But I will send a fire upon his cities, And it shall devour his palaces.
