CHAPTER 8
1 A trump be in thy throat, as an eagle on the house of the Lord; for that that they went over my bond of peace, and brake my law.
2 They called me to help, A! my God, we Israel have known thee.
3 Israel hath cast away good [thing], the enemy shall pursue him.
4 They reigned, and not of me; they were princes, and I knew not. They made their gold and silver into idols to them, that they should perish.
5 A! Samaria, thy calf is cast away; my strong vengeance is wroth against them. How long may they not be cleansed?
6 for also it is of Israel. A craftsman made it, and it is not a god; for the calf of Samaria shall be into webs of araneida or spiders.
7 For they shall sow wind, and they shall reap whirlwind. A stalk standing up is not in them, the seed shall not make meal; that if also it maketh meal, aliens shall eat it.
8 Israel is devoured; now Israel is made as an unclean vessel among nations,
9 for they ascended or went up to Assur. Ephraim is a wild ass, solitary to himself. They gave gifts to [their] lovers;
10 but also with meed they hired nations. Now I shall gather them together, and they shall rest a little from burden of the king and of princes.
11 For Ephraim multiplied altars to do sin, altars were made to him into trespass.
12 I shall write to them my manyfold laws, that be areckoned as alien laws.
13 They shall bring sacrifices, they shall offer, and eat fleshes; and the Lord shall not receive those [or them]. Now he shall have mind on the wickednesses of them, and he shall visit the sins of them; they shall turn into Egypt.
14 And Israel forgat his maker, and builded temples to his idols, and Judah multiplied strong cities; and I shall send fire into the cities of him, and it shall devour the houses of him.