Hosea 8:1-9:9

Authorized (King James) Version

8 Set the trumpet to thy mouth.
He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord,
because they have transgressed my covenant,
and trespassed against my law.
² Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.
³ Israel hath cast off the thing that is good:
the enemy shall pursue him.
⁴ They have set up kings, but not by me:
they have made princes, and I knew it not:
of their silver and their gold have they made them idols,
that they may be cut off.

⁵ Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off;
mine anger is kindled against them:
how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
⁶ For from Israel was it also:
the workman made it; therefore it is not God:
but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
⁷ For they have sown the wind,
and they shall reap the whirlwind:
it hath no stalk:
the bud shall yield no meal:
if so be it yield,
the strangers shall swallow it up.
⁸ Israel is swallowed up:
now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
⁹ For they are gone up to Assyria,
a wild ass alone by himself:
Ephraim hath hired lovers.
¹⁰ Yea, though they have hired among the nations,
now will I gather them,
and they shall sorrow a little
for the burden of the king of princes.
¹¹ Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin,
altars shall be unto him to sin.
¹² I have written to him the great things of my law,
but they were counted as a strange thing.
¹³ They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it;
but the Lord accepteth them not;
now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins:
they shall return to Egypt.
¹⁴ For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples;
and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities:
but I will send a fire upon his cities,
and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

9 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people:
for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God,
thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
² The floor and the winepress shall not feed them,
and the new wine shall fail in her.
³ They shall not dwell in the Lord’s land;
but Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
⁴ They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord,
neither shall they be pleasing unto him:
their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners;
all that eat thereof shall be polluted:
for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the Lord.
⁵ What will ye do in the solemn day,
and in the day of the feast of the Lord?
⁶ For, lo, they are gone because of destruction:
Egypt shall gather them up,
Memphis shall bury them:
the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them:
thorns shall be in their tabernacles.

⁷ The days of visitation are come,
the days of recompence are come;
Israel shall know it:
the prophet is a fool,
the spiritual man is mad,
for the multitude of thine iniquity,
and the great hatred.
⁸ The watchman of Ephraim was with my God:
but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways,
and hatred in the house of his God.
⁹ They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah:
therefore he will remember their iniquity,
he will visit their sins.