Hosea:8

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* Set the trumpet to your mouth . He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD , because they have transgressed my covenant , and trespassed against my law . * Israel shall cry to me , My God , we know you . * Israel has cast off the thing that is good : the enemy shall pursue him . * 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 . * Your calf , O Samaria , has cast you off ; my anger is kindled against them : how long will it be ere they attain to innocence ? * For from Israel was it also : the workman made it ; therefore it is not God : but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces . * For they have sown the wind , and they shall reap the whirlwind : it has no stalk ; the bud shall yield no meal : if so be it yield , the strangers shall swallow it up . * Israel is swallowed up : now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure . * For they are gone up to Assyria , a wild ass alone by himself : Ephraim has hired lovers . * Yes , though they have hired among the nations , now will I gather them , and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes . * Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin , altars shall be to him to sin . * I have written to him the great things of my law , but they were counted as a strange thing . * 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 visit their sins : they shall return to Egypt . * For Israel has forgotten his Maker , and builds temples ; and Judah has multiplied fenced cities : but I will send a fire on his cities , and it shall devour the palaces thereof .

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