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title="Hosea 7">◄</a> Hosea 8 <a href="../hosea/9.htm" title="Hosea 9">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/hosea/8.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Israel Will Reap the Whirlwind</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Set the trumpet to your lips!</span><br /><span class="indent">One like a vulture is over the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">because they have transgressed my covenant</span><br /><span class="indent">and rebelled against my law.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">To me they cry,</span><br /><span class="indent">“My God, we—Israel—know you.”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Israel has spurned the good;</span><br /><span class="indent">the enemy shall pursue him.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They made kings, but not through me.</span><br /><span class="indent">They set up princes, but I knew it not.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">With their silver and gold they made idols</span><br /><span class="indent">for their own destruction.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I have<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew He has">a</a></sup></span> spurned your calf, O Samaria.</span><br /><span class="indent">My anger burns against them.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">How long will they be incapable of innocence?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For it is from Israel;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">a craftsman made it;</span><br /><span class="indent">it is not God.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">The calf of Samaria</span><br /><span class="indent">shall be broken to pieces.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or shall go up in flames">b</a></sup></span></span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For they sow the wind,</span><br /><span class="indent">and they shall reap the whirlwind.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">The standing grain has no heads;</span><br /><span class="indent">it shall yield no flour;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">if it were to yield,</span><br /><span class="indent">strangers would devour it.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Israel is swallowed up;</span><br /><span class="indent">already they are among the nations</span><br /><span class="indent">as a useless vessel.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For they have gone up to Assyria,</span><br /><span class="indent">a wild donkey wandering alone;</span><br /><span class="indent">Ephraim has hired lovers.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Though they hire allies among the nations,</span><br /><span class="indent">I will soon gather them up.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">And the king and princes shall soon writhe</span><br /><span class="indent">because of the tribute.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning,</span><br /><span class="indent">they have become to him altars for sinning.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Were I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands,</span><br /><span class="indent">they would be regarded as a strange thing.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">As for my sacrificial offerings,</span><br /><span class="indent">they sacrifice meat and eat it,</span><br /><span class="indent">but the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> does not accept them.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Now he will remember their iniquity</span><br /><span class="indent">and punish their sins;</span><br /><span class="indent">they shall return to Egypt.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For Israel has forgotten his Maker</span><br /><span class="indent">and built palaces,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and Judah has multiplied fortified cities;</span><br /><span class="indent">so I will send a fire upon his cities,</span><br /><span class="indent">and it shall devour her strongholds.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> Hebrew <i>He has</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">shall</span> go up in flames</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® 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