nkjv Hosea:8:5-14 SEEK
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Your calf is rejected ,
O Samaria !
My anger is aroused against them --
How long until they attain to innocence ?
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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 .
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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 .
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Israel is swallowed up ;
Now they are among the Gentiles Like a vessel in which is no pleasure .
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For they have gone up to Assyria ,
Like a wild donkey alone by itself ;
Ephraim has hired lovers .
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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 .
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Because Ephraim has made many altars for sin ,
They have become for him altars for sinning .
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I have written for him the great things of My law ,
But they were considered a strange thing .
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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 .
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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 ."