Hosea 8

NEW JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
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 Let there be a trumpet in your throat, like an eagle over the house of the Lord, on behalf of those who have transgressed my covenant and violated my law.
2 in vain wil they cry, 'My God!' In vain, 'We, Israel, know you!'	2 They will call on me: “O my God, we, Israel, know you.”
3 Israel has rejected the good, the enemy will pursue them.	3 Israel has thrown away goodness; the enemy will overtake 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 reigned, but not by me. Leaders have emerged, and I did not recognize them. Their silver and their gold, they have made into idols for themselves, so that they might cross over.
5 I spurn your calf, Samaria! My anger blazes against them! How long wil it be before they recover theirinnocence?	5 Your calf, Samaria, has been rejected. My fury has been enraged against them. How long will they be incapable of being cleansed?
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 it is itself also from Israel: a workman made it, and it is not God. For the calf of Samaria will be used for the webs of spiders.
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 will sow wind and reap a whirlwind. It does not have a firm stalk; the bud will yield no grain. But if it does yield, strangers will eat it.
8 Israel has himself been swal owed; now they are lost among the nations like something no one wants,	8 Israel has been devoured. Now, among the nations, it has become like an unclean vessel.
9 for having made approaches to Assyria- like a wild donkey, al alone. Ephraim has rented lovers	9 For they have gone up to Assur, a wild ass alone by himself. Ephraim has given presents to his 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 But even when they will have brought the nations together for the sake of money, now I will assemble them. And they will rest for a little while from the burden of the king and the leaders.
11 Ephraim keeps building altars for his sins, these very altars are themselves a sin.	11 For Ephraim multiplied altars to sin, and sanctuaries have become an offense for him.
12 However much of my Law I write for him, Ephraim regards it as alien to him.	12 I will write to him my intricate laws, which have been treated like strangers.
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 will offer victims, they will immolate flesh and will eat, and the Lord will not accept them. For now he will remember their iniquity, and he will repay their sins: they will be turned back 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 And Israel has forgotten his Maker and has built shrines. And Judah has increased its fortified cities. And I will send fire upon his cities, and it will devour its structures.