HO-8:1  [Set] the trumpet to thy mouth. [He shall come] as an

eagle against

the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my

covenant, and

trespassed against my law.

HO-8:2  Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.

HO-8:3  Israel hath cast off [the thing that is] good: the enemy

shall pursue

him.

HO-8:4  They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made

princes, and I

knew [it] not: of their silver and their gold have they made

them idols, that

they may be cut off.

HO-8:5  Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast [thee] off; mine anger is

kindled

against them: how long [will it be] ere they attain to innocency?

HO-8:6  For from Israel [was] it also: the workman made it;

therefore it [is]

not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

HO-8:7  For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the

whirlwind: it

hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield,

the strangers

shall swallow it up.

HO-8:8  Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the

Gentiles as a

vessel wherein [is] no pleasure.

HO-8:9  For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by

himself: Ephraim

hath hired lovers.

HO-8:10  Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will

I gather

them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king

of princes.

HO-8:11  Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars

shall be unto

him to sin.

HO-8:12  I have written to him the great things of my law, [but]

they were

counted as a strange thing.

HO-8:13  They sacrifice flesh [for] the sacrifices of mine

offerings, and eat

[it; but] the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember

their iniquity,

and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

HO-8:14  For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth

temples; and Judah

hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his

cities, and it

shall devour the palaces thereof.

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