NASB1995 ▾Hosea ▾8 ▾Hosea 81Put the trumpet to your lips! Like an eagle the enemy comes against the house of the L ord , Because they have transgressed My covenant And rebelled against My law.2They cry out to Me, “My God, we of Israel know You!”3Israel has rejected the good; The enemy will pursue him.4They have set up kings, but not by Me; They have appointed princes, but I did not know it. With their silver and gold they have made idols for themselves, That they might be cut off.5He has rejected your calf, O Samaria, saying, “My anger burns against them!” How long will they be incapable of innocence?6For from Israel is even this! A craftsman made it, so it is not God; Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces.7For they sow the wind And they reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; It yields no grain. Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.8Israel is swallowed up; They are now among the nations Like a vessel in which no one delights.9For they have gone up to Assyria, Like a wild donkey all alone; Ephraim has hired lovers.10Even though they hire allies among the nations, Now I will gather them up; And they will begin to diminish Because of the burden of the king of princes.11Since Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin, They have become altars of sinning for him.12Though I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My law, They are regarded as a strange thing.13As for My sacrificial gifts, They sacrifice the flesh and eat it, But the L ord has taken no delight in them. Now He will remember their iniquity, And punish them for their sins; They will return to Egypt.14For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; And Judah has multiplied fortified cities, But I will send a fire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.Hosea 7Hosea 9