Hosea 8

Revised Geneva Translation

8 “Set the trumpet to your mouth! He shall come as an eagle against the House of the LORD, because they have transgressed My Covenant and trespassed against My Law.

² “Israel shall cry to Me, ‘My God, we know You!’

³ “Israel has cast off the thing that is good. The enemy shall pursue him.

⁴ “They have set up a king, but not by Me. They have made princes, and I did not know it. They have made themselves idols from their silver and their gold. Therefore, they shall be destroyed.

⁵ “Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off. My anger is kindled against them. How long will they be without innocence!

⁶ “For it came from Israel. The workman made it. Therefore, it is not God. But the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

⁷ “For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. It has no stalk. The bud shall bring forth no meal. If it is brought forth, the strangers shall devour it.

⁸ “Israel is devoured! They shall now be among the Gentiles, as a vessel in which there is no pleasure.

⁹ “For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey, alone by himself. Ephraim has hired lovers.

¹⁰ “Yet, although they have hired among the nations, I will now gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king and the princes.

¹¹ “Because Ephraim has made many altars for sin, his altars shall be for sin.

¹² “I have written the great things of My Law for them, but they were counted as a strange thing.

¹³ “They sacrifice flesh for the Sacrifices of My Offerings and eat it. The LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and visit their sins. They shall return to Egypt.

¹⁴ “For Israel has forgotten his maker and builds temples. And Judah has increased strong cities. But I will send a fire upon his cities. And it shall devour its palaces.”