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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