Hos.8
[1] 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.
Hos.9
[1] 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.
[10] I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig
tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their
abominations were according as they loved.
[11] As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird,
from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
[12] Though they bring up their children,
yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from
them!
[13] Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children
to the murderer.
[14] Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry
breasts.
[15] All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I
will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
[16] Ephraim is
smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the
beloved fruit of their womb.
[17] My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and
they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Hos.10
[1] Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he
hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.
[2] Their
heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
[3]
For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do