HOSEA. Chapter 8

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CHAP. VIII.

1. 12 Destruction is threatned for their impietie, 5 and idolatrie.

¹Set the Trumpet to thy mouth: hee shall come as an Eagle against the house of the Lord, because they haue transgressed my Couenant, and trespassed against my Lawe.¹

²Israel shall crie vnto me, My God, we know thee.

³Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemie shall pursue him.

⁴They haue set vp Kings, but not by me: they haue made Princes, and I knew it not: of their siluer and their golde haue they made them idoles, that they may be cut off.

⁵¶ Thy calfe, O Samaria, hath cast thee off: mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it bee ere they attaine to innocencie?

⁶For from Israel was it also, the workeman made it, therefore it is not God: but the calfe of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

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⁷For they haue sowen the winde, and they shall reape the whirlewinde: it hath no stalke: the budde shall yeeld no meale: if so be it yeeld, the strangers shall swallow it vp.⁷

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⁸Israel is swallowed vp, now shal they be among the Gentiles, as a vessell wherein is no pleasure.

⁹For they are gone vp to Assyria, a wilde Asse alone by himselfe; Ephraim hath hired louers.⁹

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¹⁰Yea, though they haue hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the King of princes.¹⁰

¹¹Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sinne, altars shall be vnto him to sinne.

¹²I haue written to him the great things of my Law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

¹³They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eate it; but the Lord accepteth them not: now will he remember their iniquitie, and visite their sinnes: they shal returne to Egypt.¹³

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¹⁴For Israel hath forgotten his maker, and buildeth temples; and Iudah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire vpon his cities, and it shall deuoure the palaces thereof.

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Hosea Chapter 8

¹ Heb. the roofe of thy mouth.
⁷ Or, standing corne.
⁹ Heb. loues.
¹⁰ Or, begin.
¹³ Or, in the sacrifices of mine offerings, they &c.

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