Israel Reaps the Whirlwind
8 (A)Put the trumpet to your lips!
(B)Like an eagle the enemy comes (C)against the house of the Lord,
Because they have (D)transgressed My covenant
And rebelled against My (E)law.
2 (F)They cry out to Me,
“My God, (G)we of Israel know You!”
3 Israel has rejected the good;
The enemy will pursue him.
4 (H)They have set up kings, but not by Me;
They have appointed princes, but I did not know it.
With their (I)silver and gold they have made idols for themselves,
That they might be cut off.
5 He has rejected your (J)calf, O Samaria, saying,
“My anger burns against them!”
How long will they be incapable of (K)innocence?
6 For from Israel is even this!
A (L)craftsman made it, so it is not God;
Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces.
7 For (M)they sow the wind
And they reap the (N)whirlwind.
The standing grain has no heads;
It yields (O)no grain.
Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.
8 Israel is (P)swallowed up;
They are now among the nations
Like a (Q)vessel in which no one delights.
9 For they have gone up to (R)Assyria,
Like (S)a wild donkey all alone;
Ephraim has (T)hired lovers.
10 Even though they hire allies among the nations,
Now I will (U)gather them up;
And they will begin (V)to diminish
Because of the burden of the (W)king of princes.
11 Since Ephraim has (X)multiplied altars for sin,
They have become altars of sinning for him.
12 Though (Y)I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My (Z)law,
They are regarded as a strange thing.
13 As for My (AA)sacrificial gifts,
They (AB)sacrifice the flesh and eat it,
But the Lord has taken no delight in them.
Now He will (AC)remember their iniquity,
And (AD)punish them for their sins;
They will return to (AE)Egypt.
14 For Israel has (AF)forgotten his Maker and (AG)built palaces;
And Judah has multiplied fortified cities,
But I will send a (AH)fire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.
Footnotes
- Hosea 8:1
- Hosea 8:4
- Hosea 8:5
- Hosea 8:6
- Hosea 8:7
- Hosea 8:7
- Hosea 8:9
- Hosea 8:10
Cross references
- Hosea 8:1 : Jer 4:13; Hos 5:8
- Hosea 8:1 : Hab 1:8
- Hosea 8:1 : Deut 28:49
- Hosea 8:1 : Hos 6:7
- Hosea 8:1 : Hos 4:6
- Hosea 8:2 : Ps 78:34; Hos 7:14
- Hosea 8:2 : Titus 1:16
- Hosea 8:4 : 2 Kin 15:13, 17, 25; Hos 13:10, 11
- Hosea 8:4 : Hos 2:8; 13:1, 2
- Hosea 8:5 : Hos 10:5; 13:2
- Hosea 8:5 : Ps 19:13; Jer 13:27
- Hosea 8:6 : Hos 13:2
- Hosea 8:7 : Prov 22:8
- Hosea 8:7 : Is 66:15; Nah 1:3
- Hosea 8:7 : Hos 2:9
- Hosea 8:8 : 2 Kin 17:6; Jer 51:34
- Hosea 8:8 : Jer 22:28; 25:34
- Hosea 8:9 : Hos 7:11
- Hosea 8:9 : Jer 2:24
- Hosea 8:9 : Ezek 16:33, 34
- Hosea 8:10 : Ezek 16:37; 22:20
- Hosea 8:10 : Jer 42:2
- Hosea 8:10 : Is 10:8
- Hosea 8:11 : Hos 10:1
- Hosea 8:12 : Deut 4:6, 8
- Hosea 8:12 : Hos 4:6
- Hosea 8:13 : Hos 5:6
- Hosea 8:13 : Jer 6:20; 7:21
- Hosea 8:13 : Jer 14:10; Hos 7:2; Luke 12:2; 1 Cor 4:5
- Hosea 8:13 : Hos 4:9; 9:7
- Hosea 8:13 : Hos 9:3, 6
- Hosea 8:14 : Deut 32:18; Hos 2:13; 4:6; 13:6
- Hosea 8:14 : Is 9:9, 10
- Hosea 8:14 : Jer 17:27
