Hosea 8

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¹“Set the trumpet to your mouth! He shall come like an eagle against the house of the Lord, Because they have transgressed My covenant And rebelled against My law. ✦ ²Israel will cry to Me, ‘My God, we know You!’ ✦ ³Israel has rejected the good; The enemy will pursue him. ✦ ⁴“Theyset up kings, but not by Me; They made princes, but I did not acknowledge them. From their silver and gold They made idols for themselves— That they might be cut off. ✦ ⁵Your calf is rejected, O Samaria! My anger is aroused against them— How long until they attain to innocence? ✦ ⁶For from Israel is even this: A workman made it, and it is not God; But the calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces. ✦ ⁷“Theysow the wind, And reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no bud; It shall never produce meal. If it should produce, Aliens would swallow it up. ✦ ⁸Israel is swallowed up; Now they are among the Gentiles Like a vessel in which is no pleasure. ✦ ⁹For they have gone up to Assyria, Like a wild donkey alone by itself; Ephraim has hired lovers. ✦ ¹⁰Yes, though they have hired among the nations, Now I will gather them; And they shall sorrow a little, Because of the burden of the king of princes. ✦ ¹¹“Because Ephraim has made many altars for sin, They have become for him altars for sinning. ✦ ¹²I have written for him the great things of My law, But they were considered a strange thing. ✦ ¹³For the sacrifices of My offerings they sacrifice flesh and eat it, But the Lord does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins. They shall return to Egypt. ✦ ¹⁴“ForIsrael has forgotten his Maker, And has built temples; Judah also has multiplied fortified cities; But I will send fire upon his cities, And it shall devour his palaces.” ✦

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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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