Osee, 8

[1] Let there be a trumpet in thy throat like an eagle upon the house of the Lord: because they have transgressed my covenant, and have violated my law. •

[2] They shall call upon me: O my God, we, Israel, know thee. •

[3] Israel hath cast off the thing that is good, the enemy shall pursue him. •

[4] They have reigned, but not by me: they have been princes, and I knew not: of their silver and their gold they have made idols to themselves, that they might perish. •

[5] Thy calf, O Samaria, is cast off, my wrath is kindled against them. How long will they be incapable of being cleansed? •

[6] For itself also is the invention of Israel: a workman made it, and it is no god: for the calf of Samaria shall be turned to spiders' webs. •

[7] For they shall sow wind, and reap a whirlwind, there is no standing stalk in it, the bud shall yield no meal; and if it should yield, strangers shall eat it. •

[8] Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations like an unclean vessel. •

[9] For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath given gifts to his lovers. •

[10] But even though they shall have hired the nations, now will I gather them together: and they shall rest a while from the burden of the king, and the princes. •

[11] Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin: altars are become to him unto sin.

[12] I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been accounted as foreign. •

[13] They shall offer victims, they shall sacrifice flesh, and shall eat it, and the Lord will not receive them: now will he remember their iniquity, and will visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt. •

[14] And Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and hath built temples: and Juda hath built many fenced cities: and I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the houses thereof. •