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Hosea 8 :: Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

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Israel’s False Hopes
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 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.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:2 -

Israel cries out to me,

“My God, we know you! ”

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:3 -

Israel has rejected what is good;

an enemy will pursue him.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 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.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:5 -

Your calf-idol[fn] is rejected, Samaria.

My anger burns against them.

How long will they be incapable of innocence?

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 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!

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 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.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:8 -

Israel is swallowed up!

Now they are among the nations

like discarded pottery.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:9 -

For they have gone up to Assyria

like a wild donkey going off on its own.

Ephraim has paid for love.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 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.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:11 -

When Ephraim multiplied his altars for sin,

they became his altars for sinning.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:12 -

Though I were to write out for him

ten thousand points of my instruction,

they would be[fn] regarded as something strange.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:13 -

Though they offer sacrificial gifts[fn]

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.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 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.

CSB Footnotes
Lit themselves that it might be cut off
Lit calf
Or Though I wrote out . . . instruction, they are
Hb obscure
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