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 horn to your mouth! An eagle swoops down upon the house of the Lord because they have transgressed my covenant, trespassed against my law.
2 To me they cry out O God my we know you Israel.
To me they continually cry, ‘My God, we Israel, we know you!’
3 It has rejected Israel good an enemy he will pursue him.
But Israel has spurned that which is good, so let the foe 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 themselves have made kings but without my consent. They have made princes but without my knowledge. Out of their silver and gold, they have made idols to their destruction!
5 He has rejected calf your O Samaria it has burned anger my on them until when? not will they be able innocence.
Your calf idol, O Samaria, is distasteful. My anger is kindled against them. How long will they escape punishment?
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.
Israel made the thing: a workman made it. It is not a god! Samaria’s calf will become mere splinters.
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.
They sow the wind and will reap the whirlwind. A shoot which has no stalk, yields no fruit If it should yield, strangers would devour it.
8 It will be swallowed Israel now they are among the nations like a vessel [which] there not [is] pleasure in it.
Israel is devoured. Already it lies discarded among the nations like a worthless pot.
9 For they they have gone up Assyria a wild donkey isolated to itself Ephraim they have hired (lovers *L(abh)*)
For by themselves they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey which wanders by itself. Ephraim pays for love
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.
but even if they sell themselves among the nations, I will round them up. Soon the kings and princes will writhe under the burden of tribute!
11 For he has multiplied Ephraim altars for sinning they have become to him altars for sinning.
For as many altars as Ephraim has erected, they are to him 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.
were I to write for him ever so many instructions, they would be regarded as from a stranger.
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.
The people love sacrifice, and so they offer sacrifices, meat, and so they eat it, although the Lord is not pleased with them, so now he will remember their guilt, and punish their sins. Back to Egypt with them!
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.
For Israel forgot his Maker and built palaces, and Judah multiplied fortified cities. But I will send fire upon her cities, and it will devour her strongholds.
