Hosea 8 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Israel Will Reap the Whirlwind

Hos 8:1Set the trumpet to your lips!
One like a vulture is over the house of the LORD,
because they have transgressed my covenant
and rebelled against my law.

Hos 8:2

Hos 8:2To me they cry,
“My God, we—Israel—know you.”

Hos 8:3

Hos 8:3Israel has spurned the good;
the enemy shall pursue him.

Hos 8:4

Hos 8:4They made kings, but not through me.
They set up princes, but I knew it not.
With their silver and gold they made idols
for their own destruction.

Hos 8:5

Hos 8:5I have[fn] spurned your calf, O Samaria.
My anger burns against them.
How long will they be incapable of innocence?

Hos 8:6

Hos 8:6For it is from Israel;
a craftsman made it;
it is not God.
The calf of Samaria
shall be broken to pieces.[fn]

Hos 8:7

Hos 8:7For they sow the wind,
and they shall reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no heads;
it shall yield no flour;
if it were to yield,
strangers would devour it.

Hos 8:8

Hos 8:8Israel is swallowed up;
already they are among the nations
as a useless vessel.

Hos 8:9

Hos 8:9For they have gone up to Assyria,
a wild donkey wandering alone;
Ephraim has hired lovers.

Hos 8:10

Hos 8:10Though they hire allies among the nations,
I will soon gather them up.
And the king and princes shall soon writhe
because of the tribute.

Hos 8:11

Hos 8:11Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning,
they have become to him altars for sinning.

Hos 8:12

Hos 8:12Were I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands,
they would be regarded as a strange thing.

Hos 8:13

Hos 8:13As for my sacrificial offerings,
they sacrifice meat 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.

Hos 8:14

Hos 8:14For Israel has forgotten his Maker
and built palaces,
and Judah has multiplied fortified cities;
so I will send a fire upon his cities,
and it shall devour her strongholds.

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(8:5)

Hebrew He has

(8:6)

Or shall go up in flames

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Israel Will Reap the Whirlwind

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