Hosea 8

Tree of Life Version

⁷ “For they sow wind, and reap a whirlwind.
There is no mature grain—
    the sprout yields no meal.
Should it produce anything,
    strangers would swallow it up.
⁸ Israel has been swallowed up!
Now they are among the nations,
    like an ornament with no delight in it.
⁹ For they have gone up to Assyria,
    like a wild donkey alone by itself.
Ephraim has hired lovers.
¹⁰ Although they hire among the nations,
I will now round them up.
So they will begin to decrease
under the burden of king and princes.
¹¹ “When Ephraim multiplied altars
    for making sin offerings,
they became his altars for sinning.
¹² Though I were to write out for him
ten thousand things from My Torah,
they are regarded as something strange.
¹³ Sacrifices are gifts for Me—
should they sacrifice meat and then eat it?
Adonai will not accept them.
Now He will remember their iniquity
    and punish their sin—
    they will return to Egypt.
¹⁴ For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built temples,
while Judah has multiplied fortified cities.
So I will send fire upon its cities
    that will consume their citadels.”