Hosea 8  Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁴ They have installed kings,^(G)
but not through me.
They have appointed leaders,
but without my approval.
They make their silver and gold^(H)
into idols for themselves
for their own destruction.^[a]
5 Your calf-idol^[b],^(I) is rejected, Samaria.^(J)
My anger burns against them.
How long will they be incapable of innocence?^(K)
6 For this thing is from Israel –
a craftsman made it,^(L) and it is not God.
The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits!

⁷ Indeed, they sow the wind^(M)
and reap the whirlwind.^(N)
There is no standing corn;
what sprouts fails to yield flour.^(O)
Even if it did,
foreigners would swallow it up.
⁸ Israel is swallowed up!^(P)
Now they are among the nations
like discarded pottery.^(Q)
9 For they have gone up to Assyria^(R)
like a wild donkey going off on its own.
Ephraim has paid for love.^(S)
10 Even though they hire lovers among the nations,
I will now round them up,
and they will begin to decrease in number^(T)
under the burden of the king and leaders.^(U)

¹¹ When Ephraim multiplied his altars for sin,^(V)
they became his altars for sinning.
¹² Though I were to write out for him
ten thousand points of my instruction,^(W)
they would be^[c] regarded as something strange.
¹³ Though they offer sacrificial gifts^[d],^(X)
and eat the flesh,^(Y)
the Lord does not accept them.
Now he will remember their guilt^(Z)
and punish their sins;^(AA)
they will return to Egypt.^(AB)
14 Israel has forgotten his Maker^(AC) and built palaces;^(AD)
Judah has also multiplied fortified cities.
I will send fire on their cities,^(AE)
and it will consume their citadels.