Hosea Chapter 8 (NASB)
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[Put] the trumpet to your lips! Like an eagle [the enemy comes] against the house of the LORD, Because they have transgressed My covenant And rebelled against My law.
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They cry out to Me, 'My God, we of Israel know You!'
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Israel has rejected the good; The enemy will pursue him.
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They have set up kings, but not by Me; They have appointed princes, but I did not know [it]. With their silver and gold they have made idols for themselves, That they might be cut off.
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He has rejected your calf, O Samaria, [saying], 'My anger burns against them!' How long will they be incapable of innocence?
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For from Israel is even this! A craftsman made it, so it is not God; Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces.
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For they sow the wind And they reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; It yields no grain. Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.
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Israel is swallowed up; They are now among the nations Like a vessel in which no one delights.
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For they have gone up to Assyria, [Like] a wild donkey all alone; Ephraim has hired lovers.
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Even though they hire [allies] among the nations, Now I will gather them up; And they will begin to diminish Because of the burden of the king of princes.
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Since Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin, They have become altars of sinning for him.
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Though I wrote for him ten thousand [precepts] of My law, They are regarded as a strange thing.
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As for My sacrificial gifts, They sacrifice the flesh and eat [it], [But] the LORD has taken no delight in them. Now He will remember their iniquity, And punish [them] for their sins; They will return to Egypt.
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For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; And Judah has multiplied fortified cities, But I will send a fire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.
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