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Hosea 8 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 8
The Apostasy of Israel
Sow the Wind and Reap the Whirlwind
1 “Set the trumpet[fn] to your mouth!
​​He shall come like an eagle against the house of the LORD,
​​Because they have transgressed My covenant
​​And rebelled against My law.
2 ​​Israel will cry to Me,
​‘​My God, we know You!’
3 ​​Israel has rejected the good;
​​The enemy will pursue him.
​
4 ​​“They set up kings, but not by Me;
​​They made princes, but I did not acknowledge them.
​​From their silver and gold
​​They made idols for themselves—
​​That they might be cut off.
5 ​​Your calf is rejected, O Samaria!
​​My anger is aroused against them—
​​How long until they attain to innocence?
6 ​​For from Israel is even this:
​​A workman made it, and it is not God;
​​But the calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.
​
7 ​​“They sow the wind,
​​And reap the whirlwind.
​​The stalk has no bud;
​​It shall never produce meal.
​​If it should produce,
​​Aliens would swallow it up.
8 ​​Israel is swallowed up;
​​Now they are among the Gentiles
​​Like a vessel in which is no pleasure.
9 ​​For they have gone up to Assyria,
​​Like a wild donkey alone by itself;
​​Ephraim has hired lovers.
10 ​​Yes, though they have hired among the nations,
​​Now I will gather them;
​​And they shall sorrow a little,[fn]
​​Because of the burden[fn] of the king of princes.
​
11 ​​“Because Ephraim has made many altars for sin,
​​They have become for him altars for sinning.
12 ​​I have written for him the great things of My law,
​​But they were considered a strange thing.
13 ​​For the sacrifices of My offerings they sacrifice flesh and eat it,
​​But the LORD does not accept them.
​​Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.
​​They shall return to Egypt.
​
14 ​​“For Israel has forgotten his Maker,
​​And has built temples;[fn]
​​Judah also has multiplied fortified cities;
​​But I will send fire upon his cities,
​​And it shall devour his palaces.”
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NKJV Footnotes
Hebrew shophar, ram’s horn
Or begin to diminish
Or oracle
Or palaces
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