Hosea 8:5-10
New King James Version
5 Your [a]calf [b]is rejected, O Samaria!
My anger is aroused against them—
(A)How long until they attain to innocence?
6 For from Israel is even this:
A (B)workman made it, and it is not God;
But the calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.
7 “They(C) sow the wind,
And reap the whirlwind.
The stalk has no bud;
It shall never produce meal.
If it should produce,
(D)Aliens would swallow it up.
8 (E)Israel is swallowed up;
Now they are among the Gentiles
(F)Like a vessel in which is no pleasure.
9 For they have gone up to Assyria,
Like (G)a wild donkey alone by itself;
Ephraim (H)has hired lovers.
10 Yes, though they have hired among the nations,
Now (I)I will gather them;
And they shall [c]sorrow a little,
Because of the [d]burden of (J)the king of princes.
Footnotes
- Hosea 8:5 Golden calf image
- Hosea 8:5 Or has rejected you
- Hosea 8:10 Or begin to diminish
- Hosea 8:10 Or oracle or proclamation
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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