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Oséias 8

1 [Set] the trumpet to thyGod encourages the Prophet to signify the speedy coming of the enemy against Israel, which was once the people of God.mouth. [He shall come] as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

2 Israel shallThey will cry like hypocrites, but not from the heart, as their deeds declare.cry unto me, My God, we know thee.

3 Israel hath cast off ye thing that is good: the enemie shall pursue him.

4 They have set upThat is, Jeroboam, by whom they sought their own liberty, and to obey my will.kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew [it] not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.

5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast [thee] off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long [will it be] ere they attain toThat is, upright judgment and a godly life.innocency?

6 Meaning the calf was invented by themselves, and by their fathers in the wilderness.For from Israel [was] it also: the workman made it; therefore it [is] not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

7 For they haveShowing that their religion has but a show, and in itself is but vanity.sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

8 Israel is deuoured, now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessell wherein is no pleasure.

9 For they are gone up to Assyria, aThey never cease, but run to and fro to seek help.wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

10 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for theThat is, for the king and the princes will lay upon them: and by this means the Lord brings them to repentance.burden of the king of princes.

11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sinne, his altars shalbe to sinne.

12 I have written to him the great things of my law, [but] they were counted as aIn this way the idolaters consider the word of God as strange with regard to their own invention.strange thing.

13 They sacrifice flesh [for] the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat [it; but] theSaying that they offer it to the Lord, but he accepts no service which he himself has not appointed.LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

14 For Israel hath forgotten his maker, and buildeth Temples, & Iudah hath increased strong cities: but I will sende a fire vpon his cities, and it shall deuoure the palaces thereof.

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