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.
[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 To Me they cry, My God, we—Israel—have known You.
They shall soon cry out to me, [saying], O God, we know you.
3 Israel has cast off good, an enemy pursues him.
For Israel has turned away from good things; they have pursued an enemy.
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 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 has cast off, O Samaria, My anger has burned against them; Until when are they not capable of purity?
Cast off your calf, O Samaria; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will they be unable to purge themselves in Israel?
6 For even it [is] of Israel; a craftsman made it, And it [is] not God, For the calf of Samaria is fragments!
Whereas the workman made it, and it is not God; therefore your calf, Samaria, was a deceiver:
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 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 swallowed up, Now they have been among nations, As a vessel in which is no delight.
Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations as a worthless vessel.
9 For they have gone up [to] Asshur, A wild donkey alone by himself [is] Ephraim, They have hired lovers!
For they have gone up to the Assyrians: Ephraim has been strengthened against himself; they loved gifts.
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.
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 Because Ephraim multiplied altars to sin, They have been to him altars to sin.
Because Ephraim has multiplied altars, [his] beloved altars are become sins to him.
12 I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.
I will write down a multitude [of commands] for him; but his statutes are accounted strange things, [even] the beloved altars.
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.
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 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!”
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.
