Hosea 8

1 “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.

Set the trumpet to thy mouth. [He cometh] as an eagle against the house of Jehovah, because they have transgressed my covenant, and rebelled against my law.

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

They shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee; [we], Israel.

3 Israel has cast off good, an enemy pursues him.

Israel hath cast off good: the enemy shall pursue him.

4 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.

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.

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

Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast [thee] off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will they be incapable of purity?

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

For from Israel is this also: — a workman made it, and it is no God: for the calf of Samaria shall be [broken in] pieces.

7 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.

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

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

Israel is swallowed up: now are they become among the nations as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.

9 For they have gone up [to] Asshur, A wild donkey alone by himself [is] Ephraim, They have hired lovers!

For they are gone up [to] Assyria [as] a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

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

Although they hire among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall begin to be straitened under the burden of the king of princes.

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

Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.

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

I have prescribed unto him the manifold things of my law: they are counted [as] a strange thing.

13 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.

They sacrifice flesh [for] the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; Jehovah hath no delight in them. Now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

14 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!”

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.