| 章 |
| 8:1 |
Put the trumpet to your lips! Like an eagle [the enemy comes] against the house of the LORD, Because they have transgressed My covenant, And rebelled against My law.
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| 8:2 |
They cry out to Me, "My God, we of Israel know Thee!"
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| 8:3 |
Israel has rejected the good; The enemy will pursue him.
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| 8:4 |
They have set up kings, but not by Me; They have appointed princes, but I did not know [it]. With their silver and gold they have made idols for themselves, That they might be cut off.
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| 8:5 |
He has rejected your calf, O Samaria, saying, "My anger burns against them!" How long will they be incapable of innocence?
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| 8:6 |
For from Israel is even this! A craftsman made it, so it is not God; Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces.
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| 8:7 |
For they sow the wind, And they reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; It yields no grain. Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.
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| 8:8 |
Israel is swallowed up; They are now among the nations Like a vessel in which no one delights.
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| 8:9 |
For they have gone up to Assyria, [Like] a wild donkey all alone; Ephraim has hired lovers.
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| 8:10 |
Even though they hire [allies] among the nations, Now I will gather them up; And they will begin to diminish Because of the burden of the king of princes.
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| 8:11 |
Since Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin, They have become altars of sinning for him.
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| 8:12 |
Though I wrote for him ten thousand [precepts] of My law, They are regarded as a strange thing.
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| 8:13 |
As 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 iniquity, And punish [them] for their sins; They will 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 on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.
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