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title: Hosea 8
slug: kjv/hosea-8
createdAt: 2024-08-25T02:49:01.705Z
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**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.