Hosea 8

Israel Reaps the Whirlwind

11Put the trumpet to your 2lips! 3Like an eagle the enemy comes 4against the house of the Lord, Because they have 5transgressed My covenant And rebelled against My 6law.27They cry out to Me, “My God, 8we of Israel know You!”3Israel has rejected the good; The enemy will pursue him.49They have set up kings, but not by Me; They have appointed princes, but I did not know it. With their 10silver and gold they have made idols for themselves, That 11they might be cut off.512He has rejected your 13calf, O Samaria, saying, “My anger burns against them!” How long will they be incapable of 14innocence?6For from Israel is even this! A 15craftsman made it, so it is not God; Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to 16pieces.7For 17they sow the wind And they reap the 18whirlwind. The standing grain has no 19heads; It yields 20no 21grain. Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.

8Israel is 22swallowed up; They are now among the nations Like a 23vessel in which no one delights.9For they have gone up to 24Assyria, Like 25a wild donkey all alone; Ephraim has 26hired 27lovers.10Even though they hire allies among the nations, Now I will 28gather them up; And they will begin 29to 30diminish Because of the burden of the 31king of princes.

11Since Ephraim has 32multiplied altars for sin, They have become altars of sinning for him.12Though 33I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My 34law, They are regarded as a strange thing.13As for My 35sacrificial gifts, They 36sacrifice the flesh and eat it, But the Lord has taken no delight in them. Now He will 37remember their iniquity, And 38punish them for their sins; They will return to 39Egypt.14For Israel has 40forgotten his Maker and 41built palaces; And Judah has multiplied fortified cities, But I will send a 42fire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.