Hosea 8
1 to(wards) palate your trumpet like/as eagle upon house: temple LORD because to pass: trespass covenant my and upon instruction my to transgress
Set the cornet to thy mouth. [Let the enemy come] like the eagle against the house of the Lord: because they have transgressed my covenant, and against my law have they trespassed.
2 to/for me to cry out God my to know you Israel
To me will they then cry, My God, we, Israel, know thee.
3 to reject Israel good enemy to pursue him
[But] Israel did reject the good; so let the enemy pursue him.
4 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
They set up kings, but not my advice: they chose princes and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made themselves idols so that they will be cut off.
5 to reject calf your Samaria to be incensed face: anger my in/on/with them till how not be able innocence
Thy calf, O Samaria, hath caused thy rejection; my anger is kindled against them: how long will it be that they cannot cleanse themselves?
6 for from Israel and he/she/it artificer to make him and not God he/she/it for fragment to be calf Samaria
For whom Israel did also that [idol] spring; an artisan made it, and no God is it: so then shall it become broken in splinters— that calf of Samaria.
7 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
For the wind do they sow, and the whirlwind shall they reap: [their seed] bringeth no standing corn; the plant yieldeth no meal; but should it yield it, strangers would swallow it up.
8 to swallow up Israel now to be in/on/with nation like/as article/utensil nothing pleasure in/on/with him
Swallowed up is Israel: now are they among the nations as a vessel without any value.
9 for they(masc.) to ascend: rise Assyria wild donkey be alone to/for him Ephraim to hire (lover *L(abh)*)
For they are needs gone up to Assyria, they who like a wild ass should dwell alone: Ephraim spendeth lovers' gifts.
10 also for to hire in/on/with nation now to gather them and to profane/begin: begin little from burden king ruler
But even though they should spend gifts among the nations, now will I gather them: and they shall be humbled a little through the burden of the king of princes.
11 for to multiply Ephraim altar to/for to sin to be to/for him altar to/for to sin
Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars to sin, the altars have been unto him the means of sinning.
12 (to write *Q(k)*) to/for to write (abundance *Q(K)*) instruction my like be a stranger to devise: count
I ever wrote down for him the great things of my law; but as a strange thing are they accounted.
13 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
My sacrificial offerings they slay as common flesh that they may eat it; the Lord accepteth them not in favor: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins; they shall indeed return to Egypt.
14 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
For Israel forgot his Maker, and built palaces; and Judah multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire among his cities, and it shall devour their fine edifices.
