الإصحَاحُ
الثَّامِنُ

 

Chapter
8

1
Set the trumpet to thy 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 shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.

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

4
They have set up 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 to innocency?

6
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 have 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 swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel
wherein is no pleasure.

9
For they are gone up to Assyria, a 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 the burden of the king of princes.

11
Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.

12
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a
strange thing.

13
They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the
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; and Judah hath
multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall
devour the palaces thereof.