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Hosea 8

14 aligned verses; 14 with wording or punctuation differences .

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`Unto thy mouth -- a trumpet, As an eagle against the house of Jehovah , Because they transgressed My covenant , And against My law they have rebelled .
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.
To Me they cry , `My God, we -- Israel -- have known Thee.'
Israel cries out to Me, “O our God, we know You!”
Cast off good hath Israel , an enemy pursueth him.
But Israel has rejected good; an enemy will pursue him.
They have made kings, and not by Me , They have made princes, and I have not known, Their silver and their gold they have made to them idols, So that they are cut off .
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 .
Cast off hath thy calf, O Samaria , Burned hath Mine anger against them , Till when are they not capable of purity ?
He has rejected your calf, O Samaria . My anger burns against them . How long will they be incapable of innocence ?
For even it ` is ' of Israel ; an artificer made it, And it ` is ' not God, For the calf of Samaria is fragments!
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 .
For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap , Stalk it hath none -- a shoot not yielding grain , If so be it yield -- strangers do swallow it up.
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.
Israel hath been swallowed up , Now they have been among nations , As a vessel in which is no delight .
Israel is swallowed up ! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.
For they -- they have gone up ` to ' Asshur, A wild ass alone by himself `is' Ephraim , They have hired lovers !
For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers .
Also though they hire among nations, Now I gather them, and they are pained a little, From the burden of a king of princes.
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.
Because Ephraim did multiply altars to sin, They have been to him altars to sin .
Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning .
I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned .
Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.
The sacrifices of Mine offerings! They sacrifice flesh , and they eat, Jehovah hath not accepted them , Now doth He remember their iniquity , And inspect their sin, They -- ` to ' Egypt they turn back .
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.
And forget doth Israel his Maker , and buildeth temples, And Judah hath multiplied cities of defence, And I have sent a fire into his cities, And it hath consumed their palaces!
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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