Hosea Chapter 8

• Hosea 8:1
  Hosea.
• Hosea 8:2
  “Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over the LORD’s house, because they have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law.
• Hosea 8:3
  They cry to me, ‘My God, we, Israel, acknowledge you!’
• Hosea 8:4
  Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him.
• Hosea 8:5
  They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn’t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, t...
• Hosea 8:6
  Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?
• Hosea 8:7
  For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
• Hosea 8:8
  For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swal...
• Hosea 8:9
  Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
• Hosea 8:10
  For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
• Hosea 8:11
  But although they sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mig...
• Hosea 8:12
  Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.
• Hosea 8:13
  I wrote for him the many things of my law, but they were regarded as a strange thing.
• Hosea 8:14
  As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the LORD doesn’t accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and puni...
• Hosea 8:15
  For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will dev...