< Hosea 8 >
1 "Put the trumpet to your lips. Something like an eagle is over YHWH's house, because they have broken my covenant, and rebelled 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 They cry to me, 'My God, we Israel acknowledge you.'
to/for me to cry out God my to know you Israel
3 Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will 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 did not approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves 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 Let Samaria throw out his calf idol. My anger burns against them. How long will it be until they are capable of purity?
to reject calf your Samaria to be incensed face: anger my in/on/with them till how not be able innocence
6 For this is even from Israel. The workman made it, and it is no God; indeed, 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 sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will 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 they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
to swallow up Israel now to be in/on/with nation like/as article/utensil nothing pleasure in/on/with him
9 For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
for they(masc.) to ascend: rise Assyria wild donkey be alone to/for him Ephraim to hire (lover *L(abh)*)
10 But although they sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.
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 has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.
for to multiply Ephraim altar to/for to sin to be to/for him altar to/for to sin
12 I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded 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 As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; But YHWH doesn't accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt, and will eat unclean things in Assyria.
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 has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses."
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