HOSEA 8 "The APOSTASY of ISRAEL"
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8:1 The Apostasy of Israel
"Set the trumpet to your mouth!He shall come like an eagle against the house of the LORD,Because they have transgressed My covenant And rebelled against My law. 2 Israel will cry to Me,'My God, we know You!' 3 Israel has rejected the good;The enemy will pursue him.
4 "They set up kings, but not by Me;They made princes, but I did not acknowledge them.From their silver and gold They made idols for themselves — That they might be cut off. 5 Your calf is rejected, O Samaria!My anger is aroused against them — How long until they attain to innocence? 6 For from Israel is even this:A workman made it, and it is not God;But the calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.
7 "They sow the wind,And reap the whirlwind.The stalk has no bud;It shall never produce meal.If it should produce,Aliens would swallow it up. 8 Israel is swallowed up;Now they are among the Gentiles Like a vessel in which is no pleasure. 9 For they have gone up to Assyria,Like a wild donkey alone by itself;Ephraim has hired lovers. 10 Yes, though they have hired among the nations,Now I will gather them;And they shall sorrow a little, Because of the burden of the king of princes.
11 "Because Ephraim has made many altars for sin,They have become for him altars for sinning. 12 I have written for him the great things of My law,But they were considered a strange thing. 13 For the sacrifices of My offerings they sacrifice flesh and eat it,But the LORD does not accept them.Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.They shall return to Egypt.
14 "For Israel has forgotten his Maker,And has built temples; Judah also has multiplied fortified cities;But I will send fire upon his cities,And it shall devour his palaces."
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HOSEA 9 "JUDGMENT of ISRAEL's SIN" recorded for your spiritual enrichment by vanderKOK
HOSEA 9 "JUDGMENT of ISRAEL's SIN"
recorded for your spiritual enrichment by vanderKOK
9:1 Judgment of Israel's Sin
Do not rejoice, O Israel, with joy like other peoples,For you have played the harlot against your God.You have made love for hire on every threshing floor. 2 The threshing floor and the winepress Shall not feed them,And the new wine shall fail in her.
3 They shall not dwell in the LORD's land,But Ephraim shall return to Egypt,And shall eat unclean things in Assyria. 4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD,Nor shall their sacrifices be pleasing to Him.It shall be like bread of mourners to them;All who eat it shall be defiled.For their bread shall be for their own life;It shall not come into the house of the LORD.
5 What will you do in the appointed day,And in the day of the feast of the LORD? 6 For indeed they are gone because of destruction.Egypt shall gather them up;Memphis shall bury them.Nettles shall possess their valuables of silver;Thorns shall be in their tents.
7 The days of punishment have come;The days of recompense have come.Israel knows!The prophet is a fool,The spiritual man is insane,Because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity. 8 The watchman of Ephraim is with my God;But the prophet is a fowler's snare in all his ways — Enmity in the house of his God. 9 They are deeply corrupted,As in the days of Gibeah.He will remember their iniquity;He will punish their sins.
10 "I found IsraelLike grapes in the wilderness;I saw your fathers As the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season.But they went to Baal Peor,And separated themselves to that shame;They became an abomination like the thing they loved. 11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird — No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception! 12 Though they bring up their children,Yet I will bereave them to the last man.Yes, woe to them when I depart from them! 13 Just as I saw Ephraim like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place,So Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer."
14 Give them, O LORD — What will You give?Give them a miscarrying womb And dry breasts!
15 "All their wickedness is in Gilgal,For there I hated them.Because of the evil of their deeds I will drive them from My house;I will love them no more.All their princes are rebellious. 16 Ephraim is stricken,Their root is dried up;They shall bear no fruit.Yes, were they to bear children,I would kill the darlings of their womb."
17 My God will cast them away,Because they did not obey Him;And they shall be wanderers among the nations.
