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8:1  Put the 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.