MKJV - Hosea - 8

8:1  Put a trumpet to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have broken My covenant and have sinned 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 rulers, 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. Until when will they not attain purity?

8:6  For from Israel it came also. The craftsman made it, but it is not God. For the calf of Samaria shall be splinters.

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

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

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

8:10  Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now I will gather them. And they began to be few, from the burden of the king of rulers.

8:11  Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin, altars shall be to him to 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.