ULT HOS Chapter 8

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8 “To your palate, a shofar!

Like a vulture over the house of Yahweh,

because they have transgressed my covenant

and against my law they have rebelled.

2 To me they cry out,

‘My God, we, Israel, know you.’

3 Israel has rejected the good;

an enemy will pursue him.

4 They, they have made kings, but not from me.

They have appointed princes, but I did not know.

Their silver and their gold

they have made for themselves into idols,

so that he will be cut off.”

5 “He has rejected your calf, Samaria.

My nose burns against them.

Until when will they not attain innocence?

6 For from Israel is even this:

a craftsman made it,

and it is not God!

Surely the calf of Samaria

will become broken pieces.

7 For they sow wind,

and they will reap a whirlwind;

standing grain on which there is no head.

It will not yield flour.

If perhaps it yields,

strangers will swallow it up.

8 Israel is swallowed up.

Now they are among the nations

like a vessel in which there is no delight.

9 For they, they have gone up to Assyria,

a wild donkey alone by itself.

Ephraim has hired lovers.

10 Even though they hire among the nations,

now I will gather them.

And they will begin in a little

from the burden of the king of princes.

11 Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin,

they have become for him altars for sin.

12 Were I to write for him myriads of my law,

they would be regarded as something strange.

13 The sacrifices of my gifts

they sacrifice flesh and they eat.

Yahweh does not accept them.

Now he will remember their iniquity

and punish their sins.

They, they will return to Egypt.

14 And Israel forgot his maker

and built palaces.

And Judah has multiplied fortified cities,

but I will send fire on his cities,

and it will devour her citadels.”

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