AFV2020 - Hosea - 8

8:1  "Put a ram's horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of the LORD because they have transgressed My covenant and have rebelled against My law.

8:2  Israel shall cry to Me, 'My God, we know You.'

8:3  Israel has thrown off good; the enemy shall pursue him.

8:4  They have set up kings, but not by Me; they have made princes, and I knew it not. They have made themselves idols with their silver and their gold, so that they may be cut off.

8:5  Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off. My anger is kindled against them. How long shall they be incapable of innocence?

8:6  For from Israel it came also—the craftsman made it, but it is not God; for the calf of Samaria shall be broken into shivers.

8:7  For they sow to the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. It has no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal; but if it does yield, strangers shall swallow it up.

8:8  Israel is swallowed up; now they shall be among the Gentiles as a vessel in which there is no pleasure;

8:9  For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey alone by himself. Ephraim has hired lovers.

8:10  Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now I will gather them. And they shall sorrow in a little while under the burden of kings and princes.

8:11  Because Ephraim has multiplied altars to sin, altars shall be to him for sin.

8:12  I have written to him the great things of My law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

8:13  They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of My offerings, and eat it; but the LORD does not receive them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins. They shall return to Egypt;

8:14  For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples. And Judah has multiplied cities. But I will send a fire on his cities, and it shall burn up her palaces."