translation_id: asv-eng-asv

book_id: HOS

book: Hosea

reference: Hosea 8:1

text: Set the trumpet to thy mouth. As an eagle he cometh against the house of Jehovah, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.


reference: Hosea 8:2

text: They shall cry unto me, My God, we Israel know thee.


reference: Hosea 8:3

text: Israel hath cast off that which is good: the enemy shall pursue him.


reference: Hosea 8:4

text: They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.


reference: Hosea 8:5

text: He hath cast off thy calf, O Samaria; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?


reference: Hosea 8:6

text: For from Israel is even this; the workman made it, and it is no God; yea, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.


reference: Hosea 8:7

text: For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: he hath no standing grain; the blade shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.


reference: Hosea 8:8

text: Israel is swallowed up: now are they among the nations as a vessel wherein none delighteth.


reference: Hosea 8:9

text: For they are gone up to Assyria, like a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.


reference: Hosea 8:10

text: Yea, though they hire among the nations, now will I gather them; and they begin to be diminished by reason of the burden of the king of princes.


reference: Hosea 8:11

text: Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars for sinning, altars have been unto him for sinning.


reference: Hosea 8:12

text: I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing.


reference: Hosea 8:13

text: As for the sacrifices of mine offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; but Jehovah accepteth them not: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins; they shall return to Egypt.


reference: Hosea 8:14

text: For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and builded palaces; and Judah hath multiplied fortified cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the castles thereof.