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Hosea 8 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Israel Reaps the Whirlwind

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:1 -

Put the trumpet to your [fn]mouth!

Like an eagle the enemy comes against the house of Yahweh

Because they have trespassed against My covenant

And transgressed against My law.

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They cry out to Me,

“My God, we of Israel know You!”

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Israel has rejected the good;

The enemy will pursue him.

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They have set up kings, but not by Me;

They have appointed princes, but I did not know it.

With their silver and gold they have made idols for themselves,

That [fn]they might be cut off.

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[fn]He has rejected your calf, O Samaria, saying,

“My anger burns against them!”

How long will they be incapable of innocence?

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For from Israel is even this!

A craftsman made it, so it is not God;

Surely the calf of Samaria will be smashed to splinters.

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For they sow the wind,

And they reap the whirlwind.

The standing grain has no growth;

It makes no flour.

Should it make anything, strangers would swallow it up.

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Israel is swallowed up;

They are now among the nations

Like a vessel in which no one delights.

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For they have gone up to Assyria

Like a wild donkey all alone;

Ephraim has hired [fn]lovers.

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Even though they hire allies among the nations,

Now I will gather them up;

And they will begin to [fn]diminish

Because of the burden of the king of princes.

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Since Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin,

They have become altars of sinning for him.

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Though I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My law,

They are counted as a strange thing.

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As for My sacrificial gifts,

They sacrifice the flesh and eat it,

But Yahweh has not accepted them.

Now He will remember their iniquity

And punish them for their sins;

They will return to Egypt.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:14 -

So Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces;

And Judah has multiplied fortified cities,

But I will send a fire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.

LSB Footnotes
Lit palate
Lit he
Or Your calf has rejected you
Lit loves
Or suffer for awhile
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