Hosea 8:4-7

⁴They set up kings, but not by Me.

They make princes, but without My approval.

With their silver and gold they make themselves idols,

to their own destruction.

⁵He has rejected your calf, O Samaria.

My anger burns against them.

How long will they be

incapable of innocence?

⁶For this thing is from Israel —

a craftsman made it, and it is not God.

It will be broken to pieces,

that calf of Samaria.

⁷For they sow the wind,

and they shall reap the whirlwind.

There is no standing grain;

what sprouts fails to yield flour.

Even if it should produce,

the foreigners would swallow it up.

— Hosea 8:4-7

(BSB)

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Cross References for Hosea 8:4-7

• Proverbs 22:8
• Job 4:8
• Galatians 6:7
• Hosea 10:5
• Nahum 1:3
• Jeremiah 13:27
• Hosea 13:9-10
• Judges 6:3-6
• Hosea 10:12-13
• 2 Kings 15:10-30

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