< 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.
To mouth your a horn like eagle over [the] house of Yahweh because they have transgressed covenant my and on law my they have rebelled.
2 To Me they cry, My God, we—Israel—have known You.
To me they cry out O God my we know you Israel.
3 Israel has cast off good, an enemy pursues him.
It has rejected Israel good an enemy he will 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 they have made kings and not from me they have installed leaders and not I knew silver their and gold their they have made for themselves idols so that it 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?
He has rejected calf your O Samaria it has burned anger my on them until when? not will they be able innocence.
6 For even it [is] of Israel; a craftsman made it, And it [is] not God, For the calf of Samaria is fragments!
For [are] from Israel and it a craftsman he made it and not [is] God it for fragments it will become [the] calf of Samaria.
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 a wind they sow and a storm-wind they will reap standing grain not [belongs] to it growth not it will produce flour perhaps it will produce strangers they will swallow it.
8 Israel has been swallowed up, Now they have been among nations, As a vessel in which is no delight.
It will be swallowed Israel now they are among the nations like a vessel [which] there not [is] pleasure in it.
9 For they have gone up [to] Asshur, A wild donkey alone by himself [is] Ephraim, They have hired lovers!
For they they have gone up Assyria a wild donkey isolated to itself Ephraim they have hired (lovers *L(abh)*)
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.
also for they will hire among the nations now I will gather them and they have begun a few from [the] burden of a king princes.
11 Because Ephraim multiplied altars to sin, They have been to him altars to sin.
For he has multiplied Ephraim altars for sinning they have become to him altars for sinning.
12 I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.
(I wrote *Q(k)*) for him ([the] numerous things of *Q(K)*) law my like a strange [thing] they are regarded.
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.
[the] sacrifices of Gifts my they sacrifice flesh and they ate [it] Yahweh not he is pleased with them now he will remember iniquity their so he may punish sins their they Egypt they will return.
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 he has forgotten Israel maker his and he has built palaces and Judah he has multiplied cities fortified and I will send fire on cities his and it will consume fortresses his.

< Hosea 8 >