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Hosea 8

Israel Reaps the Whirlwind

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 aPut the trumpet to your  1lips!  bLike an eagle the enemy comes  cagainst the house of the LORD, Because they have  dtransgressed My covenant And rebelled against My  elaw.

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 aThey cry out to Me, "My God,  bwe of Israel know You!"

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Israel has rejected the good; The enemy will pursue him.

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 aThey have set up kings, but not by Me; They have appointed princes, but I did not know it. With their  bsilver and gold they have made idols for themselves, That  1they might be cut off.

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 1He has rejected your  acalf, O Samaria, saying, "My anger burns against them!" How long will they be incapable of  binnocence?

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For from Israel is even this! A  acraftsman made it, so it is not God; Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to  1pieces.

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For  athey sow the wind And they reap the  bwhirlwind. The standing grain has no  1heads; It yields  cno  2grain. Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.

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Israel is  aswallowed up; They are now among the nations Like a  bvessel in which no one delights.

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For they have gone up to  aAssyria, Like  ba wild donkey all alone; Ephraim has  chired  1lovers.

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Even though they hire allies among the nations, Now I will  agather them up; And they will begin  bto  1diminish Because of the burden of the  cking of princes.

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Since Ephraim has  amultiplied altars for sin, They have become altars of sinning for him.

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Though  aI wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My  blaw, They are regarded as a strange thing.

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As for My  asacrificial gifts, They  bsacrifice the flesh and eat it, But the LORD has taken no delight in them. Now He will  cremember their iniquity, And  dpunish them for their sins; They will return to  eEgypt.

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For Israel has  aforgotten his Maker and  bbuilt palaces; And Judah has multiplied fortified cities, But I will send a  cfire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.



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