Hosea 88HoseaGod's case against IsraelNoyes Bible

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1. Israel Will Reap the Whirlwind

2. 1ENGNOYPut the trumpet to thy mouth! Like an eagle cometh an enemy against the house of Jehovah, Because they have transgressed my covenant, And have rebelled against my law.BSBBSB: Put the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.
3. 2ENGNOYThey shall say to me, My God, we know thee, we, thine Israel!BSBBSB: Israel cries out to Me, “O our God, we know You!”
4. 3ENGNOYIsrael hath cast away what is good; The enemy shall pursue him.BSBBSB: But Israel has rejected good; an enemy will pursue him.
5. 4ENGNOYThey 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 themselves idols, That they may be brought to destruction.BSBBSB: They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.
6. 5ENGNOYAn abomination is thy calf, O Samaria! Mine anger is kindled against them; How long will it be ere they can attain to purity!BSBBSB: He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?
7. 6ENGNOYFor from Israel it came; The workman made it, and it is no God; Yea, into fragments shall the calf of Samaria be broken.BSBBSB: For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.
8. 7ENGNOYThey have sown the wind, And they shall reap the whirlwind. They shall have no standing harvest; The ear shall yield no meal; If perchance it yield, strangers shall devour it.BSBBSB: For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
9. 8ENGNOYIsrael is swallowed up; Soon shall they become among the nations As a vessel which no one desireth.BSBBSB: Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.
10. 9ENGNOYFor they have gone up to Assyria, Like a solitary wild-ass; Ephraim hireth lovers;BSBBSB: For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.
11. 10ENGNOYBut though they hire among the nations, Soon will I gather the nations against them; Then shall they rest a little while from the burden of their king, and their princes!BSBBSB: Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes.
12. 11ENGNOYEphraim hath built many altars for sin, Therefore shall he have altars for sin.BSBBSB: Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.
13. 12ENGNOYThough I write for him many laws, They are accounted as a strange thing;BSBBSB: Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.
14. 13ENGNOYAs to the sacrifices which they should offer me, they slay flesh and eat it; Jehovah hath no pleasure in them. Now will he remember their iniquity, And punish their sins; To Egypt shall they return.BSBBSB: Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.
15. 14ENGNOYFor Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and builded palaces, And Judah hath multiplied fenced cities; But I will send a fire upon his cities, And it shall devour his palaces.BSBBSB: Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.