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class="poem">because they transgress my covenant<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.1.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a></p><p class="poem">and rebel against my law.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.1.4"><span class="xrfAlphabet">d</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hosea.8.2" /> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Israel cries out to me,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.2.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">“My God, we know you! ”</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hosea.8.3" /> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Israel has rejected what is good;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.3.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">an enemy will pursue him.</p></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hosea.8.4" /> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>They have installed kings,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.4.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">but not through me.</p><p class="poem">They have appointed leaders,</p><p class="poem">but without my approval.</p><p class="poem">They make their silver and gold<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.4.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">into idols for themselves</p><p class="poem">for their own destruction.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Hosea.8.4.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hosea.8.5" /> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Your calf-idol<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Hosea.8.5.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">a</span></a> <a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.5.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> is rejected, Samaria.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.5.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">My anger burns against them.</p><p class="poem">How long will they be incapable of innocence?<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.5.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hosea.8.6" /> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For this thing is from Israel —</p><p class="poem">a craftsman made it,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.6.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> and it is not God.</p><p class="poem">The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits!</p></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hosea.8.7" /> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Indeed, they sow the wind<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.7.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">and reap the whirlwind.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.7.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">There is no standing grain;</p><p class="poem">what sprouts fails to yield flour.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.7.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a></p><p class="poem">Even if they did,</p><p class="poem">foreigners would swallow it up.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hosea.8.8" /> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Israel is swallowed up!<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.8.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">Now they are among the nations</p><p class="poem">like discarded pottery.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.8.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hosea.8.9" /> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For they have gone up to Assyria<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.9.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">like a wild donkey going off on its own.</p><p class="poem">Ephraim has paid for love.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.9.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hosea.8.10" /> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Even though they hire lovers among the nations,</p><p class="poem">I will now round them up,</p><p class="poem">and they will begin to decrease in number<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.10.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">under the burden of the king and leaders.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.10.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hosea.8.11" /> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>When Ephraim multiplied his altars for sin,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.11.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">they became his altars for sinning.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hosea.8.12" /> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Though I were to write out for him</p><p class="poem">ten thousand points of my instruction,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.12.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">they would be<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Hosea.8.12.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> regarded as something strange.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hosea.8.13" /> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Though they offer sacrificial gifts<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Hosea.8.13.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">a</span></a> <a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.13.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">and eat the flesh,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.13.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> does not accept them.</p><p class="poem">Now he will remember their guilt<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.13.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a></p><p class="poem">and punish their sins;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.13.4"><span class="xrfAlphabet">d</span></a></p><p class="poem">they will return to Egypt.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.13.5"><span class="xrfAlphabet">e</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hosea.8.14" /> <span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Israel has forgotten his Maker<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.14.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> and built palaces;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.14.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">Judah has also multiplied fortified cities.</p><p class="poem">I will send fire on their cities,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.8.14.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a></p><p class="poem">and it will consume their citadels.</p></blockquote><br /><section id="footnotes-Hosea.8" class="fnSection"><aside id="fn.Hosea.8.4.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.4">8:4</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">themselves that it might be cut off</span></aside><aside id="fn.Hosea.8.5.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.5">8:5</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">calf</span></aside><aside id="fn.Hosea.8.12.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.12">8:12</a></span> Or <span class="italic">Though I wrote out . . . instruction, they are</span></aside><aside id="fn.Hosea.8.13.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.13">8:13</a></span> Hb obscure</aside><br /><section id="cross-references-Hosea.8" class="xrfSection"><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.1.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.1">8:1</a></span> Hs 5:8</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.1.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.1">8:1</a></span> Dt 28:49</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.1.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.1">8:1</a></span> Hs 6:7</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.1.4"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.1">8:1</a></span> Hs 4:6; 8:12</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.2.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.2">8:2</a></span> Hs 7:14</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.3.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.3">8:3</a></span> Hs 3:5</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.4.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.4">8:4</a></span> Hs 13:10–11</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.4.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.4">8:4</a></span> Hs 2:8; 13:1–2</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.5.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.5">8:5</a></span> Hs 10:5; 13:2</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.5.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.5">8:5</a></span> 1Kg 12:28–29; Hs 7:1</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.5.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.5">8:5</a></span> Ps 19:13; Jr 13:27</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.6.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.6">8:6</a></span> Hs 13:2</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.7.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.7">8:7</a></span> Hs 10:13</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.7.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.7">8:7</a></span> Is 66:15; Nah 1:3</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.7.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.7">8:7</a></span> Hs 2:9</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.8.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.8">8:8</a></span> Jr 51:34</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.8.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.8">8:8</a></span> Jr 25:34; Hs 13:15</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.9.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.9">8:9</a></span> Hs 7:11</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.9.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.9">8:9</a></span> Ezk 16:33</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.10.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.10">8:10</a></span> Jr 42:2</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.10.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.10">8:10</a></span> Is 10:8</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.11.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.11">8:11</a></span> Hs 10:1; 12:11</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.12.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.12">8:12</a></span> Hs 4:6</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.13.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.13">8:13</a></span> Hs 5:6; 9:4</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.13.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.13">8:13</a></span> Jr 6:20; 7:21</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.13.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.13">8:13</a></span> Hs 7:2; Lk 12:2; 1Co 4:5</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.13.4"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.13">8:13</a></span> Hs 4:9; 9:7</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.13.5"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.13">8:13</a></span> Hs 9:3,6</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.14.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.14">8:14</a></span> Hs 2:13; 4:6; 13:6</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.14.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.14">8:14</a></span> Is 9:9–10</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.8.14.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.8.14">8:14</a></span> Jr 17:27</aside><br /><section id="study-notes-Hosea.8" class="snSection"><br 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