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Hosea 8

The destruction of Judáh and Israél, because of their idolatry.
1.Set the trumpet to thy amouth: he shal come as an eagle against the House of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my Law.
2.Israél shal bcry unto me, My God, we know thee.
3.Israél hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shal pursue him.
4.They have set up a cKing, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knewe it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols: therefore shal they be destroyed.
5.Thy calf, ô Samaria, hath cast thee off: mine anger is kindled against them: how long wil they be without dinnocency!
6.eFor it came even from Israél: the workman made it, therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shalbe broken in pieces.
7.For they have fsowen the wind, and they shal reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shal bring forth no meal: if so be it bring forth, the strangers shal devour it.
8.Israél is devoured, now shal they be among the Gentiles as a vessel where in is no pleasure.
9.For they are gone up to Asshúr: the are as a gwild ass alone by him self: Ephráim hath hired lovers.
10.Yet though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shal sorrow a little, for the hburden of the King, and the princes.
11.Because Ephráim hath made many altars to sin, his altars to sin.
12.I have written to them the great things of my Law: but they were counted as a istrange thing.
13.They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it: but the kLord accepteth them not: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shal return to Egypt.
14.For Israél hath forgotten his maker, and buildeth temples, and Judáh hath encreased strong cities but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shal devour the palaces thereof.

Notes

1-a.
God encourages the Prophet to signify the speedy coming of the enemy against Israel, which was once the people of God.
2-b.
They shall cry like hypocrites, but not from the heart, as their deeds declare.
4-c.
That is, Jeroboam, by whom they sought their own liberty, and not to obey my will.
5-d.
That is upright judgement and godly life.
6-e.
Meaning, the calf was invented by themselves, and of their fathers in the wilderness.
7-f.
Showing that their religion has but a show, and in itself is but vanity.
9-g.
They never cease but run to and fro to seek help.
10-h.
That is, for the tribute which the King and the princes shall lay upon them: which means the Lord uses to bring them to repentance.
12-i.
Thus the idolaters count the word of God as strange in respect of their own inventions.
13-k.
Saying that they offer it to the Lord, but he accepts no service, which he himself has not appointed.