Hosea 8
1 Set the cornet to thy mouth. [Let the enemy come] like the eagle against the house of the Lord: because they have transgressed my covenant, and against my law have they trespassed.
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 To me will they then cry, My God, we, Israel, know thee.
to/for me to cry out God my to know you Israel
3 [But] Israel did reject the good; so let the enemy pursue him.
to reject Israel good enemy to pursue him
4 They set up kings, but not my advice: they chose princes and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made themselves idols so that they will 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 caused thy rejection; my anger is kindled against them: how long will it be that they cannot cleanse themselves?
to reject calf your Samaria to be incensed face: anger my in/on/with them till how not be able innocence
6 For whom Israel did also that [idol] spring; an artisan made it, and no God is it: so then shall it become broken in splinters— that calf of Samaria.
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 the wind do they sow, and the whirlwind shall they reap: [their seed] bringeth no standing corn; the plant yieldeth no meal; but should it yield it, strangers would 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 Swallowed up is Israel: now are they among the nations as a vessel without any value.
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 needs gone up to Assyria, they who like a wild ass should dwell alone: Ephraim spendeth lovers' gifts.
for they(masc.) to ascend: rise Assyria wild donkey be alone to/for him Ephraim to hire (lover *L(abh)*)
10 But even though they should spend gifts among the nations, now will I gather them: and they shall be humbled a little through 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 multiplied altars to sin, the altars have been unto him the means of sinning.
for to multiply Ephraim altar to/for to sin to be to/for him altar to/for to sin
12 I ever wrote down for him the great things of my law; but as a strange thing are they accounted.
(to write *Q(k)*) to/for to write (abundance *Q(K)*) instruction my like be a stranger to devise: count
13 My sacrificial offerings they slay as common flesh that they may eat it; the Lord accepteth them not in favor: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins; they shall indeed 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 forgot his Maker, and built palaces; and Judah multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire among his cities, and it shall devour their fine edifices.
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
