| 章 |
| 8:1 |
Set the trumpet to your lips, for a vulture is over the house of the LORD, because they have broken my covenant, and transgressed my law.
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| 8:2 |
To me they cry, My God, we Israel know thee.
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| 8:3 |
Israel has spurned the good;the enemy shall pursue him.
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| 8:4 |
They made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but without my knowledge. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction.
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| 8:5 |
I have spurned your calf, O Sama'ria. My anger burns against them. How long will it be till they are pure
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| 8:6 |
in Israel? A workman made it;it is not God. The calf of Sama'ria shall be broken to pieces.
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| 8:7 |
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads, it shall yield no meal;if it were to yield, aliens would devour it.
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| 8:8 |
Israel is swallowed up;already they are among the nations as a useless vessel.
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| 8:9 |
For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild ass wandering alone;E'phraim has hired lovers.
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| 8:10 |
Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And they shall cease for a little while from anointing king and princes.
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| 8:11 |
Because E'phraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they have become to him altars for sinning.
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| 8:12 |
Were I to write for him my laws by ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing.
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| 8:13 |
They love sacrifice;they sacrifice flesh and eat it;but the LORDhas no delight in them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins;they shall return to Egypt.
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| 8:14 |
For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and built palaces;and Judah has multiplied fortified cities;but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour his strongholds.
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