Hosea 8 Set the trumpet to your mouth. He shall come as an eagle over the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

KJ2000⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Set the trumpet to your mouth. He shall come as an eagle over the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. ² Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know you. ³ Israel has cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. ⁴ 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. ⁵ Your calf, O Samaria, has cast you off; my anger is kindled against them: how long will it be before they attain to innocence? ⁶ For from Israel is even this: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. ⁷ For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: the stalk has no bud: it shall yield no meal: if so be it does yield, the aliens shall swallow it up. ⁸ Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel in which is no pleasure. ⁹ For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey alone by itself: Ephraim has hired lovers. ¹⁰ Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I 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 offerings, the altars shall be unto him for sinning. ¹² I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. ¹³ They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of my offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepts them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and punish their sins: they shall return to Egypt. ¹⁴ For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour his palaces.