Hos 8 | ESV | STEP | Set the trumpet to your lips ! One like a vulture is over the house of the Lord , because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law .

1 Set ^athe trumpet to your lips!
One ^blike a vulture is over the house of the Lord,
because ^cthey have transgressed my covenant
and rebelled against my law.
2 To me they cry,
^d“My God, we—Israel—know you.”
3 Israel has spurned the good;
the enemy shall pursue him.
4 ^eThey made kings, ^fbut not through me.
They set up princes, but I knew it not.
With their silver and gold they made idols
for their own destruction.
5 ^gI have ^{▼▼Hebrew He has} spurned your calf, O Samaria.
My anger burns against them.
ⁱHow long will they be incapable of innocence?
6 For it is from Israel;
a craftsman made it;
it is not God.
^jThe calf of Samaria
^kshall be broken to pieces. ^{▼▼Or shall go up in flames}
7 For ^mthey sow the wind,
and they shall reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no heads;
it shall yield no flour;
if it were to yield,
ⁿstrangers would devour it.
8 ^oIsrael is swallowed up;
already they are among the nations
as ^pa useless vessel.
9 For ^qthey have gone up to Assyria,
^ra wild donkey wandering alone;
Ephraim has hired lovers.
10 Though they hire allies among the nations,
I will soon gather them up.
And ^sthe king and princes ^tshall soon writhe
because of the tribute.
11 Because Ephraim ^uhas multiplied altars for sinning,
they have become to him altars for sinning.
12 ^vWere I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands,
they would be regarded as a strange thing.
13 As for my sacrificial offerings,
^wthey sacrifice meat and eat it,
but the Lord does not accept them.
^xNow he will remember their iniquity
and punish their sins;
^ythey shall return to Egypt.
14 For ^zIsrael has forgotten ^aahis Maker
and ^abbuilt palaces,
and ^acJudah has multiplied fortified cities;
so ^adI will send a fire upon his cities,
and it shall devour her strongholds.