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Hosea 8
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1“Put the trumpet to your lips!
- Something like an eagle is over Yahweh’s house,
- because they have broken my covenant,
- and rebelled against my law.
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2They cry to me, ‘My God, we Israel acknowledge you!’
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3Israel has cast off that which is good.
- The enemy will pursue him.
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4They have set up kings, but not by me.
- They have made princes, and I didn’t approve.
- Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols,
- that they may be cut off.
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5Let Samaria throw out his calf idol!
- My anger burns against them!
- How long will it be until they are capable of purity?
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6For this is even from Israel!
- The workman made it, and it is no God;
- indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
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7For they sow the wind,
- and they will reap the whirlwind.
- He has no standing grain.
- The stalk will yield no head.
- If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
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8Israel is swallowed up.
- Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
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9For they have gone up to Assyria,
- like a wild donkey wandering alone.
- Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
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10But although they sold themselves among the nations,
- I will now gather them;
- and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.
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11Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning,
- they became for him altars for sinning.
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12I wrote for him the many things of my law;
- but they were regarded as a strange thing.
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13As for the sacrifices of my offerings,
- they sacrifice flesh and eat it;
- But Yahweh doesn’t accept them.
- Now he will remember their iniquity,
- and punish their sins.
- They will return to Egypt.
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14For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces;
- and Judah has multiplied fortified cities;
- but I will send a fire on his cities,
- and it will devour its fortresses.”
