Hosea 8:5-14 ▼

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.

11 Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin, they have become unto him altars for sinning.

12 Were I to write for him the myriad things of My law, they would be regarded as a strange thing.

13 The sacrifices of My gifts they sacrifice, and the flesh they eat—YHWH does not accept them. Now He has in mind their iniquity, and He will attend to their sins: They will return to Egypt.

14 And Israel has forgotten his Maker and has built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; and I will send fire upon his cities, and it will devour his palaces.