Hosea 8
1 Let there be a trumpet in your throat, like an eagle over the house of the Lord, on behalf of those who have transgressed my covenant and violated my law.
[He shall come] into their midst as the land, as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant, and have sinned against my law.
2 They will call on me: “O my God, we, Israel, know you.”
They shall soon cry out to me, [saying], O God, we know thee.
3 Israel has thrown away goodness; the enemy will overtake him.
For Israel has turned away from good things; they have pursued an enemy.
4 They have reigned, but not by me. Leaders have emerged, and I did not recognize them. Their silver and their gold, they have made into idols for themselves, so that they might cross over.
They have made kings for themselves, but not by me: they have ruled, but they did not make it known to me: [of] their silver and their gold they have made images to themselves, that they might be destroyed.
5 Your calf, Samaria, has been rejected. My fury has been enraged against them. How long will they be incapable of being cleansed?
Cast off thy calf, O Samaria; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will they be unable to purge themselves in Israel?
6 For it is itself also from Israel: a workman made it, and it is not God. For the calf of Samaria will be used for the webs of spiders.
Whereas the workman made it, and it is not God; wherefore thy calf, Samaria, was a deceiver:
7 For they will sow wind and reap a whirlwind. It does not have a firm stalk; the bud will yield no grain. But if it does yield, strangers will eat it.
for they sowed blighted [seed], and their destruction shall await them, a sheaf of corn that avails not to make meal; and even if it should produce it, strangers shall devour it.
8 Israel has been devoured. Now, among the nations, it has become like an unclean vessel.
Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations as a worthless vessel.
9 For they have gone up to Assur, a wild ass alone by himself. Ephraim has given presents to his lovers.
For they have gone up to the Assyrians: Ephraim has been strengthened against himself; they loved gifts.
10 But even when they will have brought the nations together for the sake of money, now I will assemble them. And they will rest for a little while from the burden of the king and the leaders.
Therefore shall they be delivered to the nations: now I will receive them, and they shall cease a little to anoint a king and princes.
11 For Ephraim multiplied altars to sin, and sanctuaries have become an offense for him.
Because Ephraim has multiplied altars, [his] beloved altars are become sins to him.
12 I will write to him my intricate laws, which have been treated like strangers.
I will write down a multitude [of commands] for him; but his statutes are accounted strange things, [even] the beloved altars.
13 They will offer victims, they will immolate flesh and will eat, and the Lord will not accept them. For now he will remember their iniquity, and he will repay their sins: they will be turned back to Egypt.
For if they should offer a sacrifice, and eat flesh, the lord will not accept them: now will he remember their iniquities, and will take vengeance on their sins: they have returned to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things among the Assyrians.
14 And Israel has forgotten his Maker and has built shrines. And Judah has increased its fortified cities. And I will send fire upon his cities, and it will devour its structures.
And Israel has forgotten him that made him, and they have built fanes, and Juda has multiplied walled cities: but I will send fire on his cities, and it shall devour their foundations.
