Israel Reaps the Whirlwind
8 (A)Put the trumpet to your [a]lips!
(B)Like an eagle the enemy comes (C)against the house of the Lord,
Because they have (D)violated My covenant
And rebelled against My (E)Law.
2 (F)They cry out to Me,
“My God, (G)we of Israel know You!”
3 Israel has rejected the good;
The enemy will pursue him.
4 (H)They have set up kings, but not by Me;
They have appointed officials, but I did not know it.
With their (I)silver and gold they have made idols for themselves,
So that [b]they will be eliminated.
5 [c]He has rejected your (J)calf, Samaria, saying,
“My anger burns against them!”
How long will they be incapable of (K)innocence?
6 For from Israel comes even this!
A (L)craftsman made it, so it is not God;
Assuredly, the calf of Samaria will be broken to [d]pieces.
7 For (M)they sow wind
And they harvest a (N)storm.
The standing grain has no [e]kernels;
It yields (O)no [f]grain.
If it were to yield, strangers would swallow it.
8 Israel has been (P)swallowed up;
They are now among the nations
Like a (Q)vessel in which no one delights.
9 For they have gone up to (R)Assyria,
Like (S)a wild donkey all alone;
Ephraim has (T)paid fees for [g]lovers.
10 Even though they [h]pay for allies among the nations,
I will (U)gather them up now;
And they will begin (V)to diminish
Because of the burden of the (W)king of officials.
11 Since Ephraim has (X)multiplied altars for sin,
They have become altars of sinning for him.
12 Though (Y)I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My (Z)Law,
They are regarded as a strange thing.
13 As for My (AA)sacrificial gifts,
They (AB)sacrifice the flesh and eat it,
But the Lord has taken no delight in them.
Now He will (AC)remember their guilt,
And (AD)punish them for their sins;
They will return to (AE)Egypt.
14 For Israel has (AF)forgotten his Maker and (AG)built palaces;
And Judah has multiplied fortified cities,
But I will send a (AH)fire on its cities, and it will consume its palatial buildings.
Footnotes
- Hosea 8:1 Lit palate
- Hosea 8:4 Lit he
- Hosea 8:5 Or Your calf has rejected you
- Hosea 8:6 Or splinters
- Hosea 8:7 Lit growth
- Hosea 8:7 Or meal
- Hosea 8:9 Lit love gifts
- Hosea 8:10 Or recruit allies
Cross references
- Hosea 8:1 : Jer 4:13; Hos 5:8
- Hosea 8:1 : Hab 1:8
- Hosea 8:1 : Deut 28:49
- Hosea 8:1 : Hos 6:7
- Hosea 8:1 : Hos 4:6
- Hosea 8:2 : Ps 78:34; Hos 7:14
- Hosea 8:2 : Titus 1:16
- Hosea 8:4 : 2 Kin 15:13, 17, 25; Hos 13:10, 11
- Hosea 8:4 : Hos 2:8; 13:1, 2
- Hosea 8:5 : Hos 10:5; 13:2
- Hosea 8:5 : Ps 19:13; Jer 13:27
- Hosea 8:6 : Hos 13:2
- Hosea 8:7 : Prov 22:8
- Hosea 8:7 : Is 66:15; Nah 1:3
- Hosea 8:7 : Hos 2:9
- Hosea 8:8 : 2 Kin 17:6; Jer 51:34
- Hosea 8:8 : Jer 22:28; 25:34
- Hosea 8:9 : Hos 7:11
- Hosea 8:9 : Jer 2:24
- Hosea 8:9 : Ezek 16:33, 34
- Hosea 8:10 : Ezek 16:37; 22:20
- Hosea 8:10 : Jer 42:2
- Hosea 8:10 : Is 10:8
- Hosea 8:11 : Hos 10:1
- Hosea 8:12 : Deut 4:6, 8
- Hosea 8:12 : Hos 4:6
- Hosea 8:13 : Hos 5:6
- Hosea 8:13 : Jer 6:20; 7:21
- Hosea 8:13 : Jer 14:10; Hos 7:2; Luke 12:2; 1 Cor 4:5
- Hosea 8:13 : Hos 4:9; 9:7
- Hosea 8:13 : Hos 9:3, 6
- Hosea 8:14 : Deut 32:18; Hos 2:13; 4:6; 13:6
- Hosea 8:14 : Is 9:9, 10
- Hosea 8:14 : Jer 17:27