Hosea 8:9-14 ▼

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!”