The Book of the Prophet Hosea 8 Punishment is near

 The Book of the Prophet Hosea 8

Punishment is near

1 Put the trumpet to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law.

2 And they will cry out to me: “My God! We, Israel, know you.”

3 Israel has rejected good; the enemy will pursue him.

4 They made kings, but not by me; they appointed princes, but I did not know it; from their silver and their gold they made idols for themselves, to be destroyed.

5 Your calf, O Samaria, has been rejected; my anger is kindled against them; how long will they be unable to attain innocence?

6 For this is indeed from Israel; a craftsman made it, and it is not God; but the calf of Samaria will be broken in pieces.

7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: there is no stalk, the bud shall yield no meal: if it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.

8 Israel is devoured: now it is among the nations like a vessel in which no one takes pleasure.

9 For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey, all by itself: Ephraim has bought amoris.

10 Yet, though they buy among the nations, I will gather them: they have begun to be diminished because of the burden of the king of princes.

11 For Ephraim has multiplied altars to sin; he has altars to sin.

12 I wrote for them the great things of my law; but it is to him as a strange thing.

13 As for the sacrifices of my gifts, they sacrifice meat, and eat it, but the Lord does not accept it: now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins: they shall return to Egypt. 

14 Because Israel has forgotten its Creator and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; But I will send a fire against their cities, and it will consume their palaces.