Chapter 8

  [Set] the trumpet to your mouth. As an eagle [he comes] against the house of Yahweh, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.  

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  They shall cry to me, My God, we Israel know you.  

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  Israel has cast off that which is good: the enemy shall pursue him.  

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  They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I didn't know it: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.  

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  He has cast off your calf, Samaria; my anger is kindled against them: how long will it be before they attain to innocence?  

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  For from Israel is even this; the workman made it, and it is no God; yes, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.  

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  For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: he has no standing grain; the blade shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.  

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  Israel is swallowed up: now are they among the nations as a vessel in which none delights.  

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  For they are gone up to Assyria, [like] a wild donkey alone by himself: Ephraim has hired lovers.  

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  Yes, though they hire among the nations, now will I gather them; and they begin to be diminished by reason of the burden of the king of princes.  

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  Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, altars have been to him for sinning.  

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  I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing.  

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  As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; but Yahweh doesn't accept them: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins; they shall return to Egypt.  

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  For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities: but I will send a fire on his cities, and it shall devour the castles of it.  

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