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Hosea 8 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Hos 8:1

Hos 8:1Set the trumpet to your lips, for a vulture is over the house of the LORD, because they have broken my covenant, and transgressed my law.

Hos 8:2

Hos 8:2To me they cry, My God, we Israel know thee.

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 without my knowledge. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction.

Hos 8:5

Hos 8:5I have spurned your calf, O Sama'ria. My anger burns against them. How long will it be till they are pure

Hos 8:6

Hos 8:6in Israel? A workman made it; it is not God. The calf of Sama'ria shall be broken to pieces.

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 meal; if it were to yield, aliens 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 ass wandering alone; E'phraim has hired lovers.

Hos 8:10

Hos 8:10Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And they shall cease for a little while from anointing king and princes.

Hos 8:11

Hos 8:11Because E'phraim 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 ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing.

Hos 8:13

Hos 8:13They love sacrifice; they sacrifice flesh and eat it; but the LORD has no delight in 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; but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour his strongholds.
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