# Hosea 8 • --- ### 1 the trumpet to thy mouth. 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 good: the enemy shall pursue him. ### 4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew 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 off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long ere they attain to innocency? ### 6 For from Israel it also: the workman made it; therefore it 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 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, they were counted as a strange thing. ### 13 They sacrifice flesh the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat 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.