Hosea 8:1-10 ▼

1 To your mouth set the shofar, as an eagle over the house of YHWH, because they have transgressed My covenant, and against My law they have rebelled.

2 To Me they cry, “O My God, Israel, we know You.”

3 Israel has rejected the good; an enemy will pursue him.

4 They set up kings, and not from Me; they made princes, and not ones I knew. With their silver and gold they made for themselves idols, that it might be cut off.

5 He has rejected your calf, O Samaria; My anger burns against them. Until when will they not be capable of innocence?

6 For it is from Israel. A workman made it, and it is not God. Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces.

7 For the wind they sow and they shall reap the whirlwind. The stalk is not unto it, a shoot not yielding flour; even if it should produce, strangers would swallow it up!

8 Israel is swallowed up; now they are among the Gentiles, like a vessel with no delight in it.

9 For they have gone up to Assyria; a wild donkey isolated by himself; Ephraim, they have hired lovers.

10 Even though they have hired among the nations, I will now gather them. And they will begin to diminish from the burden of the king of princes.