Hosea 8

NEW JERUSALEM	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 Put the trumpet to your lips! Like an eagle, disaster is swooping on Yahweh's home! Because they haveviolated my covenant and been unfaithful to my Law,	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.
2 in vain wil they cry, 'My God!' In vain, 'We, Israel, know you!'	2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.
3 Israel has rejected the good, the enemy will pursue them.	3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
4 They have set up kings, but without my consent, and appointed princes, but without my knowledge.With their silver and gold, they have made themselves idols, but only to be destroyed.	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.
5 I spurn your calf, Samaria! My anger blazes against them! How long wil it be before they recover theirinnocence?	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?
6 For it is the product of Israel- a craftsman made the thing, it is no god at al ! The calf of Samaria wil bebroken to pieces!	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.
7 Since they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind; stalk without ear, it wil never yield flour- or if itdoes, foreigners will swallow it.	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.
8 Israel has himself been swal owed; now they are lost among the nations like something no one wants,	8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
9 for having made approaches to Assyria- like a wild donkey, al alone. Ephraim has rented lovers	9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
10 and because he has rented them from the nations I am now going to round them up; soon they wilfeel the weight of the king of princes!	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.
11 Ephraim keeps building altars for his sins, these very altars are themselves a sin.	11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.
12 However much of my Law I write for him, Ephraim regards it as alien to him.	12 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
13 They offer sacrifices to me and eat the meat, they do not win Yahweh's favour. On the contrary, he wilremember their guilt and punish their sins; they wil have to go back to Egypt.	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.
14 Israel has forgotten his Maker and has built palaces, while Judah keeps on building fortified towns; butI shal send fire down on his cities to devour their citadels.	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.