Hosea 8

1“Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over Yahweh’s house, because they have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law.Cross-references: Deut 28:49 · 2Ki 18:27 · Isa 18:3 · Isa 24:5 · Isa 58:1 · Jer 4:5 · +24 more

2They cry to me, ‘My God, we, Israel, acknowledge you!’Cross-references: 2Ki 10:16 · 2Ki 10:29 · Ps 78:34 · Isa 48:1 · Jer 7:4 · Hos 5:15 · +7 more

3Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him.Cross-references: Lev 26:36 · Deut 28:25 · Ps 36:3 · Ps 81:10 · Lam 3:66 · Lam 4:19 · +2 more

4They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn’t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.Cross-references: 1Ki 12:16 · 1Ki 12:28 · 1Ki 13:34 · 1Ki 16:31 · 2Ki 15:10 · Jer 44:7 · +9 more

5Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?Cross-references: Deut 32:22 · 2Ki 17:16 · 2Ki 17:21 · Prov 1:22 · Isa 45:20 · Jer 4:14 · +4 more

6For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.Cross-references: 2Ki 23:15 · 2Ki 23:19 · 2Chr 31:1 · 2Chr 34:6 · Ps 106:19 · Ps 115:4 · +11 more

7For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.Cross-references: Deut 28:33 · Judg 6:3 · 2Ki 13:3 · 2Ki 15:19 · 2Ki 15:29 · Job 4:8 · +10 more

8Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.Cross-references: Lev 26:33 · Deut 28:25 · Deut 28:64 · 2Ki 17:1 · 2Ki 18:11 · Isa 30:14 · +10 more

9For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.Cross-references: 2Ki 15:19 · Job 39:5 · Isa 30:6 · Jer 2:24 · Ezek 16:33 · Ezek 23:5 · +5 more

10But although they sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.Cross-references: 2Ki 14:26 · 2Ki 15:19 · 2Ki 17:3 · 1Chr 5:26 · Isa 10:8 · Isa 36:13 · +10 more

11Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.Cross-references: Deut 4:28 · Isa 10:10 · Jer 16:13 · Hos 10:1 · Hos 10:8 · Hos 12:11

12I wrote for him the many things of my law, but they were regarded as a strange thing.Cross-references: Deut 4:6 · 2Ki 17:15 · Neh 9:13 · Neh 9:26 · Ps 50:17 · Ps 119:18 · +8 more

13As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but Yahweh doesn’t accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.Cross-references: Ex 20:3 · Ex 32:34 · Deut 28:68 · 1Sam 15:22 · Prov 21:27 · Isa 1:11 · +16 more

14For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses.”Cross-references: Deut 32:18 · 1Ki 12:31 · 1Ki 16:31 · 2Ki 18:13 · 2Chr 26:10 · 2Chr 27:4 · +19 more