Osee 8

¹In thy throat let there be a trumpet as an eagle upon the house of the Lord: for that they have transgressed my covenant, and have prevaricated my law.

²Me they shall invocate: My God, we Israel have known thee.

³Israel hath cast away the good thing, the enemy shall persecute him.

⁴They have reigned, & not of me: they have been Princes, & I knew not: their silver & their gold they made idols to themselves, that they might perish.

⁵Thy calf is cast off o Samaria, my fury is wrath against them. How long can they not be cleansed?

⁶Because it-self also is of Israel: the workman made it, and it is not God: because the calf of Samaria shall be as spiders' webs.

⁷Because they shall sow wind, & reap a whirlwind: there is no standing stalk in it, the bud shall not yield meal: & if it do yield, strangers shall eat it.

⁸Israel is devoured: Now is he become in nations as an unclean vessel.

⁹Because they went up to Assur, a wild ass solitary to himself: Ephraim have given gifts to lovers.

¹⁰Yea and when they shall hire the nations with reward, now will I gather them together: & they shall rest a while from the burden of the king and the princes.

¹¹Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars to sin: altars are made to him unto sin.

¹²I will write to him my manifold laws, which have been accounted as strange.

¹³They shall offer hosts, they shall immolate flesh, and shall eat, and the Lord will not receive them: now will he remember their iniquity, and will visit their sins: they shall return into Ægypt.

¹⁴And Israel hath forgotten his maker, and hath built temples: and Judas hath multiplied fenced cities: & I will cast fire on his cities, and it shall devour the houses thereof.