Hosea 8

1 [Set] the trumpet to thy mouth. [He shall come] as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

to(wards) palate your trumpet like/as eagle upon house: temple LORD because to pass: trespass covenant my and upon instruction my to transgress

2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.

to/for me to cry out God my to know you Israel

3 Israel hath cast off [the thing that is] good: the enemy shall pursue him.

to reject Israel good enemy to 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.

they(masc.) to reign and not from me to reign and not to know silver: money their and gold their to make to/for them idol because to cut: eliminate

5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast [thee] off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long [will it be] ere they attain to innocency?

to reject calf your Samaria to be incensed face: anger my in/on/with them till how not be able innocence

6 For from Israel [was] it also: the workman made it; therefore it [is] not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

for from Israel and he/she/it artificer to make him and not God he/she/it for fragment to be calf Samaria

7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

for spirit: breath to sow and whirlwind [to] to reap standing grain nothing to/for him branch without to make: do flour perhaps to make: do be a stranger to swallow up him

8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein [is] no pleasure.

to swallow up Israel now to be in/on/with nation like/as article/utensil nothing pleasure in/on/with him

9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

for they(masc.) to ascend: rise Assyria wild donkey be alone to/for him Ephraim to hire (lover *L(abh)*)

10 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.

also for to hire in/on/with nation now to gather them and to profane/begin: begin little from burden king ruler

11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.

for to multiply Ephraim altar to/for to sin to be to/for him altar to/for to sin

12 I have written to him the great things of my law, [but] they were counted as a strange thing.

(to write *Q(k)*) to/for to write (abundance *Q(K)*) instruction my like be a stranger to devise: count

13 They sacrifice flesh [for] the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat [it; but] the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

sacrifice gift my to sacrifice flesh and to eat LORD not to accept them now to remember iniquity: crime their and to reckon: punish sin their they(masc.) Egypt to return: return

14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

and to forget Israel [obj] to make him and to build temple: palace and Judah to multiply city to gather/restrain/fortify and to send: depart fire in/on/with city his and to eat citadel: fortress her