8:1 Put the ram’s horn to your mouth! One like an eagle comes against the house of the Lord, because they transgress my covenant and rebel against my law.
8:2 Israel cries out to me, “My God, we know you!”
8:3 Israel has rejected what is good; an enemy will pursue him.
8:4 They have installed kings, but not through me. They have appointed leaders, but without my approval. They make their silver and gold into idols for themselves for their own destruction.
8:5 Your calf-idol is rejected, Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?
8:6 For this thing is from Israel— a craftsman made it, and it is not God. The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits!
8:7 Indeed, they sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if they did, foreigners would swallow it up.
8:8 Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like discarded pottery.
8:9 For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey going off on its own. Ephraim has paid for love.
8:10 Even though they hire lovers among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to decrease in number under the burden of the king and leaders.
8:11 When Ephraim multiplied his altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.
8:12 Though I were to write out for him ten thousand points of my instruction, they would be regarded as something strange.
8:13 Though they offer sacrificial gifts and eat the flesh, the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their guilt and punish their sins; they will return to Egypt.
8:14 Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has also multiplied fortified cities. I will send fire on their cities, and it will consume their citadels.
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