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Hosea 8

Holman Christian Standard Bible, 2009 (HCSB)

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¹ Put the horn to your mouth! ⓐ One like an eagle comes against the house of the LORD, ⓑ because they transgress My covenant ⓒ and rebel against My law. ⓓ

² Israel cries out to Me, ⓔ “My God, we know You!”

³ Israel has rejected what is good; ⓕ an enemy will pursue him.

⁴ They have installed kings, ⓖ but not through Me. They have appointed leaders, but without My approval. They make their silver and gold ⓗ into idols for themselves for their own destruction. [1]

⁵ Your calf-idol [2] ⓘ is rejected, Samaria. ⓙ My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? ⓚ

⁶ For this thing is from Israel — a craftsman made it, ⓛ and it is not God. The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits!

⁷ Indeed, they sow the wind ⓜ and reap the whirlwind. ⓝ There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. ⓞ Even if they did, foreigners would swallow it up.

⁸ Israel is swallowed up! ⓟ Now they are among the nations like discarded pottery. ⓠ

⁹ For they have gone up to Assyria ⓡ like a wild donkey going off on its own. Ephraim has paid for love. ⓢ

¹⁰ Even though they hire lovers among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to decrease in number ⓣ under the burden of the king and leaders. ⓤ

¹¹ When Ephraim multiplied his altars for sin, ⓥ they became his altars for sinning.

¹² Though I were to write out for him ten thousand points of My instruction, ⓦ they would be [3] regarded as something strange.

¹³ Though they offer sacrificial gifts [4] ⓧ and eat the flesh, ⓨ the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their guilt ⓩ and punish their sins; ⓐ they will return to Egypt. ⓑ

¹⁴ Israel has forgotten his Maker ⓒ and built palaces; ⓓ Judah has also multiplied fortified cities. I will send fire on their cities, ⓔ and it will consume their citadels.

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1	Put the horn to your mouth! ⓐ One like an eagle comes against the house of the LORD, ⓑ because they transgress My covenant ⓒ and rebel against My law. ⓓ
2	Israel cries out to Me, ⓔ “My God, we know You!”
3	Israel has rejected what is good; ⓕ an enemy will pursue him.
4	They have installed kings, ⓖ but not through Me. They have appointed leaders, but without My approval. They make their silver and gold ⓗ into idols for themselves for their own destruction. [1]
5	Your calf-idol [2] ⓘ is rejected, Samaria. ⓙ My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? ⓚ
6	For this thing is from Israel — a craftsman made it, ⓛ and it is not God. The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits!
7	Indeed, they sow the wind ⓜ and reap the whirlwind. ⓝ There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. ⓞ Even if they did, foreigners would swallow it up.
8	Israel is swallowed up! ⓟ Now they are among the nations like discarded pottery. ⓠ
9	For they have gone up to Assyria ⓡ like a wild donkey going off on its own. Ephraim has paid for love. ⓢ
10	Even though they hire lovers among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to decrease in number ⓣ under the burden of the king and leaders. ⓤ
11	When Ephraim multiplied his altars for sin, ⓥ they became his altars for sinning.
12	Though I were to write out for him ten thousand points of My instruction, ⓦ they would be [3] regarded as something strange.
13	Though they offer sacrificial gifts [4] ⓧ and eat the flesh, ⓨ the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their guilt ⓩ and punish their sins; ⓐ they will return to Egypt. ⓑ
14	Israel has forgotten his Maker ⓒ and built palaces; ⓓ Judah has also multiplied fortified cities. I will send fire on their cities, ⓔ and it will consume their citadels.

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