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The Book of Hosea 8

8 “Put the trumpet to your lips!

One like a vulture is over the house of Yahweh

because they have transgressed my covenant

and rebelled against my law.

2 They cry out to me,

‘My God, we in Israel know you.’

3 Israel has rejected the good;

the enemy will pursue him.

4 They have set up kings,

but not by me.

They have appointed princes,

but I did not know.

With their silver and gold

they have made idols for themselves,

so that they might be cut off.”

5 “Your calf has been rejected, O Samaria.

My anger burns against them.

How long will they be incapable of innocence?

6 For from Israel is even this;

a craftsman made it;

it is not God!

Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces.

7 For they sow the wind

and reap the whirlwind.

The standing grain has no heads;

it yields no flour.

If it were to yield,

strangers would devour it.

8 Israel is swallowed up;

they are now among the nations like a vessel in which no one delights.

9 For they have gone up to Assyria,

a wild donkey all alone.

Ephraim has hired lovers for herself.

10 Even though they hire lovers among the nations,

I will now gather them together.

They will begin to waste away

because of the burden of the king of princes.

11 Since Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin offerings,

they have become altars for sinning for him.

12 Were I to write for him my law ten thousand times,

they would be regarded as something strange.

13 As for my sacrificial gifts,

they sacrifice meat and eat it,

but Yahweh does not accept them.

Now he will remember their iniquity

and punish their sins.

They will return to Egypt.

14 Israel has forgotten his Maker

and has built palaces.

Judah has multiplied fortified cities,

but I will send fire on his cities;

it will devour his fortresses.

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