Hosea 8

Hosea 8:1	A trumpet to your lips! / Like an eagle [he comes] against the house of Jehovah, / Because they have trespassed My covenant / And have transgressed against My law.
Hosea 8:2	They will cry unto Me, / My God, we--Israel--know You.
Hosea 8:3	Israel has cast off what is good; / The enemy will pursue him.
Hosea 8:4	They have set up kings, but not by Me; / They have set up princes, but I did not acknowledge [it.] / With their silver and their gold they made / Idols for themselves, / That they might be cut off.
Hosea 8:5	Your calf has cast [you] off, O Samaria; / My anger burns against them. / How long will they be incapable of innocence?
Hosea 8:6	For from Israel is this! / A workman made it; / Thus it is no God. / The calf of Samaria / Will be [shattered to] pieces.
Hosea 8:7	For they have sown wind, / And they will reap a whirlwind. / It has no stalk; [should there be] a sprout, / It will not produce flour; / If it should produce, / Strangers will swallow it up.
Hosea 8:8	Israel has been swallowed up; / Now they have become among the nations / Like a vessel in which no one takes pleasure.
Hosea 8:9	For they have gone up to Assyria / [Like] a wild ass gone alone by itself; / Ephraim has hired lovers.
Hosea 8:10	Indeed though they have hired [such] among the nations, / I will now gather them; / And they will begin to be diminished because of the burden / Of the king of the princes.
Hosea 8:11	Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin, / Altars will be to him for sin.
Hosea 8:12	I wrote for him the ten thousand things of My law, / [But] they are considered as a strange thing.
Hosea 8:13	As for the sacrifices of My offerings, / They sacrifice flesh and eat [it,] / [But] Jehovah has no delight in them. / Now He will remember their iniquity, / And He will punish their sins; / They will return to Egypt.
Hosea 8:14	For Israel has forgotten his Maker / And has built palaces, / And Judah has multiplied fortified cities; / But I will send fire into his cities, / And it will devour its citadels.