Hosea 8

1 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.

Put the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.

2 To me they cry out O God my we know you Israel.

Israel cries out to Me, “O our God, we know You!”

3 It has rejected Israel good an enemy he will pursue him.

But Israel has rejected good; an enemy will pursue him.

4 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.

They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.

5 He has rejected calf your O Samaria it has burned anger my on them until when? not will they be able innocence.

He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

6 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.

For this thing is from Israel— a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.

7 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.

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.

8 It will be swallowed Israel now they are among the nations like a vessel [which] there not [is] pleasure in it.

Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.

9 For they they have gone up Assyria a wild donkey isolated to itself Ephraim they have hired (lovers *L(abh)*)

For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.

10 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.

Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes.

11 For he has multiplied Ephraim altars for sinning they have become to him altars for sinning.

Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.

12 (I wrote *Q(k)*) for him ([the] numerous things of *Q(K)*) law my like a strange [thing] they are regarded.

Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.

13 [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.

Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.

14 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.

Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.