Hosea 8:5-14 ▼

5 Your calf has cast off, O Samaria, || My anger has burned against them; Until when are they not capable of purity?

6 For even it [is] of Israel; a craftsman made it, || And it [is] not God, || For the calf of Samaria is fragments!

7 For wind they sow, and a windstorm they reap, || Stalk it has none—a shoot not yielding grain, || If so be it yield—strangers swallow it up.

8 Israel has been swallowed up, || Now they have been among nations, || As a vessel in which is no delight.

9 For they have gone up [to] Asshur, || A wild donkey alone by himself [is] Ephraim, || They have hired lovers!

10 Also though they hire among nations, || Now I gather them, and they are pained a little, || From the burden of a king of princes.

11 Because Ephraim multiplied altars to sin, || They have been to him altars to sin.

12 I write for him numerous things of My law, || As a strange thing they have been reckoned.

13 The sacrifices of My offerings! They sacrifice flesh, and they eat, || YHWH has not accepted them, || Now He remembers their iniquity, || And inspects their sin, || They return [to] Egypt.

14 And Israel forgets his Maker, and builds temples, || And Judah has multiplied cities of defense, || And I have sent a fire into his cities, || And it has consumed their palaces!”