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Hosea 8:5-7
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Hosea 8:5-7
EasyEnglish Bible
5 People of Samaria, you have made an image of a calf as your idol.[a]
But I hate that idol!
I am very angry with the Israelites.
How much longer will it be before I have to punish them?
6 That idol is not a true god!
An Israelite worker with special skills made it.
Samaria's idol of a calf will break into pieces!
7 Like a farmer, Israel's people have planted the wind.
So their harvest will be a strong storm!
The crops that grow in their fields will not have any grain.
So they will not be able to make flour for bread.
Even if the crops do make some grain,
foreign people will take it for themselves.
Footnotes
- 8:5 Samaria was the capital city of the northern kingdom, Israel.
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