OTNT

Hos 8


8:1 “Put the trumpet to your lips! An eagle is over the house of the LORD because the people have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law.

8:2 Israel cries out to me, ‘O our God, we acknowledge you!’

8:3 But Israel has rejected what is good; an enemy will pursue him.

8:4 They set up kings without my consent; they choose princes without my approval. With their silver and gold they make idols for themselves to their own destruction.

8:5 Throw out your calf-idol, O Samaria! My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of purity?

8:6 They are from Israel! This calf–a craftsman has made it; it is not God. It will be broken in pieces, that calf of Samaria.

8:7 “They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no head; it will produce no flour. Were it to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it up.

8:8 Israel is swallowed up; now she is among the nations like a worthless thing.

8:9 For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has sold herself to lovers.

8:10 Although they have sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them together. They will begin to waste away under the oppression of the mighty king.

8:11 “Though Ephraim built many altars for sin offerings, these have become altars for sinning.

8:12 I wrote for them the many things of my law, but they regarded them as something alien.

8:13 They offer sacrifices given to me and they eat the meat, but the LORD is not pleased with them. Now he will remember their wickedness and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.

8:14 Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has fortified many towns. But I will send fire upon their cities that will consume their fortresses.”

8:1 A trumpet to your lips! / Like an eagle he comes against the house of Jehovah, / Because they have trespassed My covenant / And have transgressed against My law.

8:2 They will cry unto Me, / My God, we ? Israel ? know You.

8:3 Israel has cast off what is good; / The enemy will pursue him.

8:4 They have set up kings, but not by Me; / They have set up princes, but I did not acknowledge it. / With their silver and their gold they made / Idols for themselves, / That they might be cut off.

8:5 Your calf has cast you off, O Samaria; / My anger burns against them. / How long will they be incapable of innocence?

8:6 For from Israel is this! / A workman made it; / Thus it is no God. / The calf of Samaria / Will be shattered to pieces.

8:7 For they have sown wind, / And they will reap a whirlwind. / It has no stalk; should there be a sprout, / It will not produce flour; / If it should produce, / Strangers will swallow it up.

8:8 Israel has been swallowed up; / Now they have become among the nations / Like a vessel in which no one takes pleasure.

8:9 For they have gone up to Assyria / Like a wild ass gone alone by itself; / Ephraim has hired lovers.

8:10 Indeed though they have hired such among the nations, / I will now gather them; / And they will begin to be diminished because of the burden / Of the king of the princes.

8:11 Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin, / Altars will be to him for sin.

8:12 I wrote for him the ten thousand things of My law, / But they are considered as a strange thing.

8:13 As for the sacrifices of My offerings, / They sacrifice flesh and eat it, / But Jehovah has no delight in them. / Now He will remember their iniquity, / And He will punish their sins; / They will return to Egypt.

8:14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker / And has built palaces, / And Judah has multiplied fortified cities; / But I will send fire into his cities, / And it will devour its citadels.