Hosea 8:5-14 - Heartlight

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.

⁸Israel is swallowed up!

Now they are among the nations

like a worthless vessel.

⁹For they have gone up to Assyria

like a wild donkey on its own.

Ephraim has hired lovers.

¹⁰Though they hire allies among the nations,

I will now round them up,

and they will begin to diminish

under the oppression of the king of princes.

¹¹Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin,

they became his altars for sinning.

¹²Though I wrote for them the great things of My law,

they regarded them as something strange.

¹³Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me,

and though they eat the meat,

the LORD does not accept them.

Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins:

They will return to Egypt.

¹⁴Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces;

Judah has multiplied its fortified cities.

But I will send fire upon their cities,

and it will consume their citadels.

— Hosea 8:5-14

(BSB)

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