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align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../hosea/7.htm" 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">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Israel’s Apostasy</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-1"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Set the trumpet to your lips!</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">One like a vulture<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26468a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> is over the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>,</span></span><br /><span class="text">because they have broken my covenant,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and transgressed my law.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>Israel cries to me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">“My God, we—Israel—know you!”</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Israel has spurned the good;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the enemy shall pursue him.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>They made kings, but not through me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they set up princes, but without my knowledge.</span></span><br /><span class="text">With their silver and gold they made idols</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for their own destruction.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Your calf is rejected, O Samaria.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">My anger burns against them.</span></span><br /><span class="text">How long will they be incapable of innocence?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span>For it is from Israel,</span></span><br /><span class="text">an artisan made it;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">it is not God.</span></span><br /><span class="text">The calf of Samaria</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">shall be broken to pieces.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26473b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>For they sow the wind,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and they shall reap the whirlwind.</span></span><br /><span class="text">The standing grain has no heads,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">it shall yield no meal;</span></span><br /><span class="text">if it were to yield,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">foreigners would devour it.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Israel is swallowed up;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">now they are among the nations</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">as a useless vessel.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>For they have gone up to Assyria,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">a wild ass wandering alone;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Ephraim has bargained for lovers.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Though they bargain with the nations,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I will now gather them up.</span></span><br /><span class="text">They shall soon writhe</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">under the burden of kings and princes.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>When Ephraim multiplied altars to expiate sin,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they became to him altars for sinning.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Though I write for him the multitude of my instructions,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they are regarded as a strange thing.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Though they offer choice sacrifices,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26480c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">though they eat flesh,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> does not accept them.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Now he will remember their iniquity,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and punish their sins;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they shall return to Egypt.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Israel has forgotten his Maker,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and built palaces;</span></span><br /><span class="text">and Judah has multiplied fortified cities;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but I will send a fire upon his cities,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and it shall devour his strongholds.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 8:1">Hosea 8:1</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 8:6">Hosea 8:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>shall go up in flames</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 8:13">Hosea 8:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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