Hosea 8 ~ 10

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8:1A trumpet to your lips! / Like an eagle he comes against the house of Jehovah, / Because they have trespassed My covenant / And have transgressed against My law. Compare
8:2They will cry unto Me, / My God, we--Israel--know You. Compare
8:3Israel has cast off what is good; / The enemy will pursue him. Compare
8:4They have set up kings, but not by Me; / They have set up princes, but I did not acknowledge it. / With their silver and their gold they made / Idols for themselves, / That they might be cut off. Compare
8:5Your calf has cast you off, O Samaria; / My anger burns against them. / How long will they be incapable of innocence? Compare
8:6For from Israel is this! / A workman made it; / Thus it is no God. / The calf of Samaria / Will be shattered to pieces. Compare
8:7For they have sown wind, / And they will reap a whirlwind. / It has no stalk; should there be a sprout, / It will not produce flour; / If it should produce, / Strangers will swallow it up. Compare
8:8Israel has been swallowed up; / Now they have become among the nations / Like a vessel in which no one takes pleasure. Compare
8:9For they have gone up to Assyria / Like a wild ass gone alone by itself; / Ephraim has hired lovers. Compare
8:10Indeed though they have hired such among the nations, / I will now gather them; / And they will begin to be diminished because of the burden / Of the king of the princes. Compare
8:11Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin, / Altars will be to him for sin. Compare
8:12I wrote for him the ten thousand things of My law, / But they are considered as a strange thing. Compare
8:13As for the sacrifices of My offerings, / They sacrifice flesh and eat it, / But Jehovah has no delight in them. / Now He will remember their iniquity, / And He will punish their sins; / They will return to Egypt. Compare
8:14For Israel has forgotten his Maker / And has built citadels, / And Judah has multiplied fortified cities; / But I will send fire into his cities, / And it will devour its palaces. Compare
9:1Do not rejoice, O Israel, / To exult like the nations. / For you have gone as a harlot away from your God; / You have loved payment / Upon every grain floor. Compare
9:2The threshing floor and the winepress will not feed them, / And the new wine will fail her. Compare
9:3They will not dwell in the land of Jehovah; / But Ephraim will return to Egypt, / And in Assyria they will eat what is unclean. Compare
9:4They will not pour out offerings of wine to Jehovah, / Neither will their sacrifices be pleasing to Him; / They will be to them as the bread of mourning; / All who eat them will be unclean, / For their bread will be for themselves; / It will not come into the house of Jehovah. Compare
9:5What will you do / In the day of assembly / And in the day of the feast of Jehovah? Compare
9:6For they will go because of destruction; / Egypt will gather them; / Moph will bury them. / As for their desirable things of silver, nettles will dispossess them; / Thistles will be in their tents. Compare
9:7The days of the visitation have come; / The days of the recompense have come; / Israel will know it. / The prophet is a fool, / The inspired man is mad, / Because of the greatness of your iniquity / And because of the greatness of the enmity. Compare
9:8Ephraim was a watchman / With my God. / As for the prophet, a fowler's trap / Is in all his ways; / Enmity is in the house of his God. Compare
9:9They have deeply corrupted themselves / As in the days of Gibeah; / He will remember their iniquity; / He will punish their sins. Compare
9:10I found Israel / Like grapes in the wilderness; / I saw your fathers / As the first ripe fruit on the fig tree at its beginning. / They went to Baal-peor / And sanctified themselves unto the shameful thing, / And they became detestable, like the thing that they loved. Compare
9:11As for Ephraim, their glory / Will fly away like a bird - / No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception! Compare
9:12For even if they bring up their children, / I will bereave them, so that not a man is left. / Indeed woe also to them / When I turn away from them. Compare
9:13Ephraim, as I have seen him, / Is planted like Tyre in a meadow; / But Ephraim will bring forth / His children to the slayer. Compare
9:14Give them, O Jehovah - / What will You give them? / Give them a miscarrying womb / And dry breasts. Compare
9:15All their evil is in Gilgal, / For there I hated them. / Because of the evil of their doings / I will drive them from My house, / I will love them no more; / All their princes are rebels. Compare
9:16Ephraim is stricken; / Their root is dried up; / They will not bear fruit. / Indeed though they bring forth, / I will kill the beloved fruit of their womb. Compare
9:17My God has rejected them, / For they did not listen to Him. / And they will be wanderers among the nations. Compare
10:1Israel is a luxuriant vine; / He brings forth fruit for himself. / According to the abundance of his fruit / He has multiplied altars; / According to the goodness of their land / They have made pillars well. Compare
10:2Their heart is divided; / Now they will be found guilty. / He Himself will break down their altars; / He will destroy their pillars. Compare
10:3For now they will say, / We have no king, / For we did not fear Jehovah; / And the king, what can he do for us? Compare
10:4They speak mere words, / Swearing falsely / While making a covenant; / And judgment sprouts forth like poisonous weeds / In the furrows of the field. Compare
10:5The inhabitants of Samaria will fear / For the calves of Beth-aven; / For its people will mourn over it, / And its idol priests will tremble for it, / For its glory, / Because it has departed from it. Compare
10:6Indeed it will be carried to Assyria: / A present to the worrior king. / Ephraim will be taken in shame, / And Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel. Compare
10:7Samaria will be cut off with her king / And will be like twigs on the surface of the water. Compare
10:8And the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, / Will be destroyed. / The thorn and the thistle will come up / Upon their altars; / And they will say to the mountains, Cover us! / And to the hills, Fall on us! Compare
10:9Since the days of Gibeah / You have sinned, O Israel; / There they have stood. / Did not the battle / Overtake them in Gibeah / Because of the children of iniquity? Compare
10:10When I so desire, I will chastise them; / And the peoples will be gathered against them, / When they are bound for their double iniquity. Compare
10:11And Ephraim is a trained heifer / That loves to tread the grain; / But I have passed the yoke / Over her fair neck: / I will make Ephraim draw the plow; / Judah will plow; / Jacob will break his clods. Compare
10:12Sow unto righteousness for yourselves; / Reap according to lovingkindness; / Break up your fallow ground; / For it is time to seek Jehovah / Until He comes and rains / Righteousness on you. Compare
10:13You have plowed wickedness; / You have reaped injustice; / You have eaten the fruit of lying. / For you have trusted in your way, / In the multitude of your mighty men. Compare
10:14And a tumult will arise among your peoples; / And all your fortresses will be devastated, / As Shalman devastated Beth-arbel / In the day of battle: / The mother was dashed in pieces with the children. Compare
10:15Thus Bethel will cause this to happen to you / Because of your great evil: / At dawn the king of Israel / Will be utterly cut off. Compare

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