Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off: mine anger is kindled against them: how long will they be without [a]innocency!

[b]For it came even from Israel: the workman made it, therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

For they have [c]sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall bring forth no meal: if so be it brought forth, the strangers shall devour it.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 8:5 That is, upright judgment and godly life.
  2. Hosea 8:6 Meaning, the calf was invented by themselves, and of their fathers in the wilderness.
  3. Hosea 8:7 Showing that their religion hath but a show, and in itself is but vanity.

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