Hosea 8

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¹Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. ✦ ²Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee. ✦ ³Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. ✦ ⁴They 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. ✦ ⁵Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency? ✦ ⁶For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. ✦ ⁷For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up. ✦ ⁸Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure. ✦ ⁹For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. ✦ ¹⁰Yea, 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. ✦ ¹¹Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin. ✦ ¹²I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. ✦ ¹³They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt. ✦ ¹⁴For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Hos 10 ·7 Deut 28 ·6 2 Kgs 15 ·5 2 Kgs 17 ·5 Amos 1 ·5 Hos 7 ·5 Hos 2 ·5 Hos 9 ·4

Christ at the center

God's relentless love for an unfaithful bride dramatizes the gospel: 'Out of Egypt I called my son' is fulfilled in Jesus, who redeems an adulterous people at his own cost.

How Hosea 8 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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