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The enemy descends like an eagle on the people of the LORD, for they have broken my covenant and revolted against my law.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Now Israel pleads with me, ‘Help us, for you are our God!’<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">To me they cry, “My God, we—Israel—know you.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But it is too late. The people of Israel have rejected what is good, and now their enemies will chase after them.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Israel has spurned the good; the enemy shall pursue him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The people have appointed kings without my consent, and princes without my approval. By making idols for themselves from their silver and gold, they have brought about their own destruction.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but I knew it not. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“O Samaria, I reject this calf— this idol you have made. My fury burns against you. How long will you be incapable of innocence?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I have spurned your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">This calf you worship, O Israel, was crafted by your own hands! It is not God! Therefore, it must be smashed to bits.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For it is from Israel; a craftsman made it; it is not God. The calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“They have planted the wind and will harvest the whirlwind. The stalks of grain wither and produce nothing to eat. And even if there is any grain, foreigners will eat it.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no flour; if it were to yield, strangers would devour it.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The people of Israel have been swallowed up; they lie among the nations like an old discarded pot.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Israel is swallowed up; already they are among the nations as a useless vessel.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Like a wild donkey looking for a mate, they have gone up to Assyria. The people of Israel have sold themselves— sold themselves to many lovers.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey wandering alone; Ephraim has hired lovers.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But though they have sold themselves to many allies, I will now gather them together for judgment. Then they will writhe under the burden of the great king.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And the king and princes shall soon writhe because of the tribute.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“Israel has built many altars to take away sin, but these very altars became places for sinning!<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they have become to him altars for sinning.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Even though I gave them all my laws, they act as if those laws don’t apply to them.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Were I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The people love to offer sacrifices to me, feasting on the meat, but I do not accept their sacrifices. I will hold my people accountable for their sins, and I will punish them. They will return to Egypt.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">As for my sacrificial offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the LORD does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Israel has forgotten its Maker and built great palaces, and Judah has fortified its cities. Therefore, I will send down fire on their cities and will burn up their fortresses.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; so I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour her strongholds.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of <a href="http://www.tyndale.com">Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.</a>, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.</td><td class="copy" width="50%">ESV Text Edition: 2016. 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