8:1 Set the trumpet to your mouth. He shall come as an eagle over the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
8:2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know you.
8:3 Israel has cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
8:4 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.
8:5 Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off; my anger is kindled against them: how long will it be before they attain to innocence?
8:6 For from Israel is even this: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
8:7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: the stalk has no bud: it shall yield no meal: if so be it does yield, the aliens shall swallow it up.
8:8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel in which is no pleasure.
8:9 For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey alone by itself: Ephraim has hired lovers.
8:10 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little because of the burden of the king of princes.
8:11 Because Ephraim has made many altars for sin offerings, the altars shall be unto him for sinning.
8:12 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
8:13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of my offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepts them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and punish their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
8:14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour his palaces.
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