Hosea 8

1 [Set] the trumpet to thy mouth. [He shall come] as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed 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 Israel shall cry to me, My God, we know thee.

to/for me to cry out God my to know you Israel

3 Israel hath cast off [the thing that is] good: the enemy shall 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 knew [it] not: of their silver and their gold have they made for 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 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast [thee] off; my anger is kindled against them: how long [will it be] ere they attain to innocence?

to reject calf your Samaria to be incensed face: anger my in/on/with them till how not be able innocence

6 For from Israel [was] it also: the workman made it; therefore it [is] not God: but 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 have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if it shall yield, the strangers shall 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 shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel in which [is] no pleasure.

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, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

for they(masc.) to ascend: rise Assyria wild donkey be alone to/for him Ephraim to hire (lover *L(abh)*)

10 Yes, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.

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 hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be to him to sin.

for to multiply Ephraim altar to/for to sin to be to/for him altar to/for to sin

12 I have written to him the great things of my law, [but] they were counted 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 They sacrifice flesh [for] the sacrifices of my offerings, and eat [it]; [but] the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

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 hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fortified cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

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