KJ3 Literal Translation
Hosea 8
Destruction threatened for impiety and idolatry.
1Put a rams' horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of Jehovah, because they have passed over My covenant and have transgressed against My Law.
2Israel shall cry to Me, My God, we know You.
3Israel has cast off good; the enemy shall pursue him.
4They have set up kings, but not by Me. They have made rulers, but I did not know. They made idols for themselves with their silver and their gold, so that they may be cut off.
5O Samaria, your calf has cast you off. My anger is kindled against them. Until when will they not be able to gain innocency?
6For it also came from Israel: The artisan made it, but it is not God. For the calf of Samaria shall be splinters.
7For they sow the wind, and they reap the storm wind. A stalk is not to him; the bud shall make no flour. If it does make it, strangers will swallow it up.
8Israel is swallowed up. They are now among the nations as a vessel in which is no pleasure.
9For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself. Ephraim has hired lovers.
10Also, though they have hired among the nations, now I will gather them. And they began to become few, from the burden of the king of rulers.
11Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin, they are altars to him to sin.
12I have written the great things of My Law for him, but they were counted as being strange.
13And for the sacrifices of My offerings, they sacrifice flesh, and they eat. Jehovah did not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and call their sins to account. They shall turn back to Egypt.
14For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples. And Judah has multiplied fortified cities. But I will send a fire on his cities, and it shall burn up her palaces.
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