Hosea 8
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Hos 8:1
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{Put} the trumpet to your lips! Like an eagle {the enemy comes} against the house of the LORD, Because they have transgressed My covenant And rebelled against My law.
Hos 8:4
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They have set up kings, but not by Me; They have appointed princes, but I did not know {it.} With their silver and gold they have made idols for themselves, That they might be cut off.
Hos 8:5
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He has rejected your calf, O Samaria, {saying,} "My anger burns against them!" How long will they be incapable of innocence?
Hos 8:6
Hos 8:7
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For they sow the wind And they reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; It yields no grain. Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.
Hos 8:8
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Israel is swallowed up; They are now among the nations Like a vessel in which no one delights.
Hos 8:9
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For they have gone up to Assyria, {Like} a wild donkey all alone; Ephraim has hired lovers.
Hos 8:10
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Even though they hire {allies} among the nations, Now I will gather them up; And they will begin to diminish Because of the burden of the king of princes.
Hos 8:12
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Though I wrote for him ten thousand {precepts} of My law, They are regarded as a strange thing.
Hos 8:13
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As for My sacrificial gifts, They sacrifice the flesh and eat {it,} {But} the LORD has taken no delight in them. Now He will remember their iniquity, And punish {them} for their sins; They will return to Egypt.
Hos 8:14
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For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; And Judah has multiplied fortified cities, But I will send a fire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.
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