Hosea 8 (NET)

Hosea 8:1¹Sound the alarm! An eagle looms over the temple of the Lord! For they have broken their covenant with me and have rebelled against my law.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:49Hos 6:7Hos 5:8Jer 4:13Hab 1:8Heb 8:8-131 Cor 15:522 Kgs 18:27Amos 3:6Amos 8:3

Hosea 8:2²Israel cries out to me, “My God, we acknowledge you!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 7:21Titus 1:161 John 2:42 Kgs 10:162 Kgs 10:29Hos 7:13-14Isa 48:1-2Jer 7:4Luke 13:25Matt 25:11

Hosea 8:3³But Israel has rejected what is morally good; so an enemy will pursue him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lam 3:66Ps 81:10-11Amos 1:111 Tim 5:12Deut 28:25Lam 4:19Lev 26:36Ps 36:3

Hosea 8:4⁴They enthroned kings without my consent. They appointed princes without my approval. They made idols out of their silver and gold, but they will be destroyed!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 15:10-30Hos 13:9-101 Kgs 12:16-201 Kgs 16:31Hos 13:2Hos 2:8John 10:141 Kgs 12:28Gal 4:9Luke 13:25

Hosea 8:5⁵O Samaria, he has rejected your calf idol. My anger burns against them! They will not survive much longer without being punished, even though they are Israelites!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 10:5Jer 13:27Prov 1:222 Kgs 17:16-182 Kgs 17:21-23Acts 7:41Deut 32:22Hos 8:6Isa 45:20Jer 4:14

Hosea 8:6⁶That idol was made by a workman—it is not God! The calf idol of Samaria will be broken to bits.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hab 2:182 Chr 31:12 Chr 34:6-72 Kgs 23:152 Kgs 23:19Acts 17:29Acts 19:26Hos 10:2Hos 10:5-6Isa 44:9-20

Hosea 8:7⁷They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 22:8Job 4:8Gal 6:7Nah 1:3Hos 10:12-13Hos 7:9Judg 6:3-6Hos 2:9Isa 66:15Jer 12:13

Hosea 8:8⁸Israel will be swallowed up among the nations; they will be like a worthless piece of pottery.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 22:28Jer 51:342 Tim 2:20-212 Kgs 17:1-62 Kgs 18:11Deut 28:25Deut 28:64Ezek 36:3Isa 30:14Jer 48:38

Hosea 8:9⁹They have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey that wanders off. Ephraim has hired prostitutes as lovers.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 2:24Ezek 16:33-34Hos 5:13Hos 7:112 Kgs 15:19Isa 30:6Ezek 23:5-9Hos 12:1Hos 2:10Hos 2:5-7

Hosea 8:10¹⁰Even though they have hired lovers among the nations, I will soon gather them together for judgment. Then they will begin to waste away under the oppression of a mighty king.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 16:37Ezek 26:7Ezek 23:22-26Hag 2:6Hos 10:10Isa 10:8Jer 42:21 Chr 5:262 Kgs 14:262 Kgs 15:19-20

Hosea 8:11¹¹Although Ephraim has built many altars for sin offerings, these have become altars for sinning.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 12:11Deut 4:28Hos 10:1-2Hos 10:8Isa 10:10-11Jer 16:13

Hosea 8:12¹²I spelled out my law for him in great detail, but they regard it as something totally unknown to them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 4:6-8Rom 7:122 Kgs 17:15-16Ezek 20:11Hos 4:6Isa 30:9Jer 6:16-17Neh 9:13-14Neh 9:26Prov 22:20

Hosea 8:13¹³They offer up sacrificial gifts to me and eat the meat, but the Lord does not accept their sacrifices. Soon he will remember their wrongdoing, he will punish their sins, and they will return to Egypt.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 9:6Hos 9:9Amos 5:22Amos 8:7Deut 28:68Exod 20:3Hos 11:5Hos 5:6Hos 9:3-4Isa 1:11

Hosea 8:14¹⁴Israel has forgotten his Maker and built royal palaces, and Judah has built many fortified cities. But I will send fire on their cities; it will consume their royal citadels.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 32:18Jer 17:27Amos 2:5Hos 13:6Isa 17:10Amos 1:10Eph 2:10Jer 2:32Ps 106:211 Kgs 12:31