Hosea 8

NEW JERUSALEM	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
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 your lips, for a vulture is over the house of the LORD, because they have broken my covenant, and transgressed my law.
2 in vain wil they cry, 'My God!' In vain, 'We, Israel, know you!'	2 To me they cry, My God, we Israel know thee.
3 Israel has rejected the good, the enemy will pursue them.	3 Israel has spurned the 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 made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but without my knowledge. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction.
5 I spurn your calf, Samaria! My anger blazes against them! How long wil it be before they recover theirinnocence?	5 I have spurned your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will it be till they are pure
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 in Israel? A workman made it; it is not God. The calf of Samaria shall be broken to 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 sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads, it shall yield no meal; if it were to yield, aliens would devour it.
8 Israel has himself been swal owed; now they are lost among the nations like something no one wants,	8 Israel is swallowed up; already they are among the nations as a useless 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 Assyria, a wild ass wandering alone; Ephraim has 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 Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And they shall cease for a little while from anointing king and princes.
11 Ephraim keeps building altars for his sins, these very altars are themselves a sin.	11 Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they have become to him altars for sinning.
12 However much of my Law I write for him, Ephraim regards it as alien to him.	12 Were I to write for him my laws by ten thousands, they would be regarded 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 love sacrifice; they sacrifice flesh and eat it; but the LORD has no delight in them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish 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 has forgotten his Maker, and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour his strongholds.