Hosea Chapter 8    

¹Put the shofar to your lips! Something like an eagle is over Yahweh’s house, because they have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law.
  ²They cry out to me, “My God, we—Israel—know you!”
  ³But Israel has cast off what is good. The enemy will pursue him.
  ⁴They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made officials, but without my approval. With their silver and their gold they have made idols for themselves, with the result that it will be cut off.
  ⁵Let Samaria throw out their calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?
  ⁶For from Israel is even this calf! The craftsman has made it and it is no god! Indeed, the calf of Samaria will be broken in pieces.
  ⁷For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head; if it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
  ⁸Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a vessel that nobody wants.
  ⁹For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired herself out to lovers.
  ¹⁰But although they sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.
  ¹¹Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.
  ¹²I wrote for him ten thousand things of my law, but they were regarded as something foreign.
  ¹³As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it, but Yahweh does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.
  ¹⁴For 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 will devour its fortresses.