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.

“To your mouth—a horn, As an eagle against the house of YHWH, Because they transgressed My covenant, And against My law they have rebelled.

2 They will call on me: “O my God, we, Israel, know you.”

To Me they cry, My God, we—Israel—have known You.

3 Israel has thrown away goodness; the enemy will overtake him.

Israel has cast off good, an enemy pursues him.

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, and not by Me, They have made princes, and I have not known, Their silver and their gold they have made to them idols, So that they are cut off.

5 Your calf, Samaria, has been rejected. My fury has been enraged against them. How long will they be incapable of being cleansed?

Your calf has cast off, O Samaria, My anger has burned against them; Until when are they not capable of purity?

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.

For even it [is] of Israel; a craftsman made it, And it [is] not God, For the calf of Samaria is fragments!

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 wind they sow, and a windstorm they reap, Stalk it has none—a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield—strangers swallow it up.

8 Israel has been devoured. Now, among the nations, it has become like an unclean vessel.

Israel has been swallowed up, Now they have been among nations, As a vessel in which is no delight.

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] Asshur, A wild donkey alone by himself [is] Ephraim, They have hired lovers!

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.

Also though they hire among nations, Now I gather them, and they are pained a little, From the burden of a king of princes.

11 For Ephraim multiplied altars to sin, and sanctuaries have become an offense for him.

Because Ephraim multiplied altars to sin, They have been to him altars to sin.

12 I will write to him my intricate laws, which have been treated like strangers.

I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.

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.

The sacrifices of My offerings! They sacrifice flesh, and they eat, YHWH has not accepted them, Now He remembers their iniquity, And inspects their sin, They return [to] Egypt.

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 forgets his Maker, and builds temples, And Judah has multiplied cities of defense, And I have sent a fire into his cities, And it has consumed their palaces!”