Hosea 8

Jubilee Bible 2000

8 ¶ Set the shofar to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law.

² Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we have known thee.

³ Israel has cast off the good; the enemy shall pursue him.

⁴ They have reigned, but not by me; they have made dominion, and I knew it not; of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols that they may be cut off.

⁵ Thy calf, O Samaria, has cast thee off; my anger has been kindled against them until they could no longer be absolved.

⁶ For it is of Israel; and a workman made it who is not God: because the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

⁷ For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind; they shall have no harvest; the fruit shall yield no meal: if so be it yields, the strangers shall swallow it up.

⁸ ¶ Israel shall be swallowed up; soon they shall be among the Gentiles as a vessel in which there is no pleasure.

⁹ For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass thinking only of himself; Ephraim has hired lovers.

¹⁰ Even though they hire the Gentiles, now I will gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king and of the princes.

¹¹ Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin, the altars shall be a sin unto him.

¹² I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as strange things.

¹³ In the sacrifices of my gifts they sacrificed flesh and ate; but the LORD does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity and visit their sins; they shall return to Egypt.

¹⁴ For Israel has forgotten his Maker and has built temples; and Judah has multiplied fenced cities; but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.