Hos 8 | NASB1995 | STEP | Put the trumpet to your lips ! Like an eagle the enemy comes against the house of the Lord , Because they have transgressed My covenant And rebelled against My law .

Hosea 8

Israel Reaps the Whirlwind

1 ^a Put the trumpet to your ^{▼▼ Lit palate}lips!
^cLike an eagle the enemy comes ^dagainst the house of the Lord,
Because they have ^etransgressed My covenant
And rebelled against My ^flaw.
2 ^gThey cry out to Me,
“My God, ^hwe of Israel know You!”
3 Israel has rejected the good;
The enemy will pursue him.
4 ⁱThey have set up kings, but not by Me;
They have appointed princes, but I did not know it.
With their ^jsilver and gold they have made idols for themselves,
That ^{▼▼ Lit he}they might be cut off.
5 ^{▼▼ Or Your calf has rejected you}He has rejected your ^mcalf, O Samaria, saying,
“My anger burns against them!”
How long will they be incapable of ⁿinnocence?
6 For from Israel is even this!
A ^ocraftsman made it, so it is not God;
Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to ^{▼▼ Or splinters}pieces.
7 For ^qthey sow the wind
And they reap the ^rwhirlwind.
The standing grain has no ^{▼▼ Lit growth}heads;
It yields ^tno ^{▼▼ Or meal}grain.
Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.

8 Israel is ^vswallowed up;
They are now among the nations
Like a ^wvessel in which no one delights.
9 For they have gone up to ^xAssyria,
Like ^ya wild donkey all alone;
Ephraim has ^zhired ^{▼▼ Lit loves}lovers.
10 Even though they hire allies among the nations,
Now I will ^abgather them up;
And they will begin ^acto ^{▼▼ Or suffer for awhile}diminish
Because of the burden of the ^aeking of princes.

11 Since Ephraim has ^afmultiplied altars for sin,
They have become altars of sinning for him.
12 Though ^agI wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My ^ahlaw,
They are regarded as a strange thing.
13 As for My ^aisacrificial gifts,
They ^ajsacrifice the flesh and eat it,
But the Lord has taken no delight in them.
Now He will ^akremember their iniquity,
And ^alpunish them for their sins;
They will return to ^amEgypt.
14 For Israel has ^anforgotten his Maker and ^aobuilt palaces;
And Judah has multiplied fortified cities,
But I will send a ^apfire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.