Hosea 8 (VUL) · Opened

1[In gutture tuo sit tuba quasi aquila super domum Domini, pro eo quod transgressi sunt fœdus meum, et legem meam prævaricati sunt.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.

2Me invocabunt: Deus meus, cognovimus te Israël.Israel cries out to Me, “O our God, we know You!”

3Projecit Israël bonum: inimicus persequetur eum.But Israel has rejected good; an enemy will pursue him.

4Ipsi regnaverunt, et non ex me; principes exstiterunt, et non cognovi: argentum suum et aurum suum fecerunt sibi idola, ut interirent.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.

5Projectus est vitulus tuus, Samaria; iratus est furor meus in eos. Usquequo non poterunt emundari?He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

6Quia ex Israël et ipse est: artifex fecit illum, et non est deus; quoniam in aranearum telas erit vitulus Samariæ.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.

7Quia ventum seminabunt, et turbinem metent: culmus stans non est in eo; germen non faciet farinam: quod etsi fecerit, alieni comedent eam.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.

8Devoratus est Israël; nunc factus est in nationibus quasi vas immundum.Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.

9Quia ipsi ascenderunt ad Assur, onager solitarius sibi; Ephraim munera dederunt amatoribus.For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.

10Sed et cum mercede conduxerint nationes, nunc congregabo eos, et quiescent paulisper ab onere regis et principum.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.

11Quia multiplicavit Ephraim altaria ad peccandum; factæ sunt ei aræ in delictum.Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.

12Scribam ei multiplices leges meas, quæ velut alienæ computatæ sunt.Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.

13Hostias offerent, immolabunt carnes et comedent, et Dominus non suscipiet eas: nunc recordabitur iniquitatis eorum, et visitabit peccata eorum: ipsi in Ægyptum convertentur.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.

14Et oblitus est Israël factoris sui, et ædificavit delubra; et Judas multiplicavit urbes munitas; et mittam ignem in civitates ejus, et devorabit ædes illius.]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.

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