Hosea 8

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¹Put the trumpet to your lips! Like an eagle the enemy comes against the house of the Lord, Because they have violated My covenant And rebelled against My Law. ✦ ²They cry out to Me, “My God, we of Israel know You!” ✦ ³Israel has rejected the good; The enemy will pursue him. ✦ ⁴They have set up kings, but not by Me; They have appointed officials, but I did not know it. With their silver and gold they have made idols for themselves, So that they will be eliminated. ✦ ⁵He has rejected your calf, Samaria, saying, “My anger burns against them!” How long will they be incapable of innocence? ✦ ⁶For from Israel comes even this! A craftsman made it, so it is not God; Assuredly, the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces. ✦ ⁷For they sow wind And they harvest a storm. The standing grain has no kernels; It yields no grain. If it were to yield, strangers would swallow it. ✦ ⁸¶Israel has been swallowed up; They are now among the nations Like a vessel in which no one delights. ✦ ⁹For they have gone up to Assyria, Like a wild donkey all alone; Ephraim has paid fees for lovers. ✦ ¹⁰Even though they pay for allies among the nations, I will gather them up now; And they will begin to diminish Because of the burden of the king of officials. ✦ ¹¹¶Since Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin, They have become altars of sinning for him. ✦ ¹²Though I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My Law, They are regarded as a strange thing. ✦ ¹³As for My sacrificial gifts, They sacrifice the flesh and eat it, But the Lord has taken no delight in them. Now He will remember their guilt, And punish them for their sins; They will return to Egypt. ✦ ¹⁴For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; And Judah has multiplied fortified cities, But I will send a fire on its cities, and it will consume its palatial buildings. ✦

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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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