{"book":"Hosea","slug":"hosea","ch":8,"genre":"poetry","sub":"Hosea","prev":"hosea/7","next":"hosea/9","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"[Put] the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because [the people] have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"[Put] the ram’s horn to your lips!"},{"style":"indent2","t":"An eagle looms over the house of the LORD,"},{"style":"indent1","t":"because [the people] have transgressed My covenant"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and rebelled against My law."}],"h":"Israel Will Reap the Whirlwind","style":"indent1stline"},{"v":2,"t":"Israel cries out to Me,“ O our God, we know You!”","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Israel cries out to Me,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"“ O our God, we know You!”"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":3,"t":"[But] Israel has rejected good; an enemy will pursue him.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"[But] Israel has rejected good;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"an enemy will pursue him."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":4,"t":"They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"They set up kings, but not by Me."},{"style":"indent2","t":"They make princes, but without My approval."},{"style":"indent1","t":"With their silver and gold they make themselves idols,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"to their own destruction."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":5,"t":"He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?","f":["Or calf idol; see 1 Kings 12:29."],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"He has rejected your calf, O Samaria."},{"style":"indent2","t":"My anger burns against them."},{"style":"indent1","t":"How long will they be"},{"style":"indent2","t":"incapable of innocence?"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":6,"t":"For this thing is from Israel — a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"For this thing is from Israel —"},{"style":"indent2","t":"a craftsman made it, and it is not God."},{"style":"indent1","t":"It will be broken to pieces,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"that calf of Samaria."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":7,"t":"For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"For they sow the wind,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and they shall reap the whirlwind."},{"style":"indent1","t":"There is no standing grain;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"what sprouts fails to yield flour."},{"style":"indent1","t":"Even if it should produce,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"the foreigners would swallow it up."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":8,"t":"Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Israel is swallowed up!"},{"style":"indent2","t":"Now they are among the nations"},{"style":"indent2","t":"like a worthless vessel."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":9,"t":"For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.","f":["That is, the northern kingdom of Israel; also in verse 11"],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"For they have gone up to Assyria"},{"style":"indent2","t":"like a wild donkey on its own."},{"style":"indent2","t":"Ephraim has hired lovers."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":10,"t":"Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Though they hire allies among the nations,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"I will now round them up,"},{"style":"indent1","t":"and they will begin to diminish"},{"style":"indent2","t":"under the oppression of the king of princes."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":11,"t":"Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"they became his altars for sinning."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":12,"t":"Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Though I wrote for them the great things of My law,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"they regarded them as something strange."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":13,"t":"Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and [though they] eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and [though they] eat the meat,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"the LORD does not accept them."},{"style":"indent1","t":"Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins:"},{"style":"indent2","t":"They will return to Egypt."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":14,"t":"Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"Judah has multiplied its fortified cities."},{"style":"indent1","t":"But I will send fire upon their cities,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and it will consume their citadels."}],"style":"indent1"}]}