1 Let there be a trumpet in your throat, like an eagle over the house of the Lord, on behalf of those who have transgressed my covenant and violated my law.
2 They will call on me: “O my God, we, Israel, know you.”
3 Israel has thrown away goodness; the enemy will overtake him.
4 They have reigned, but not by me. Leaders have emerged, and I did not recognize them. Their silver and their gold, they have made into idols for themselves, so that they might cross over.
5 Your calf, Samaria, has been rejected. My fury has been enraged against them. How long will they be incapable of being cleansed?
6 For it is itself also from Israel: a workman made it, and it is not God. For the calf of Samaria will be used for the webs of spiders.
7 For they will sow wind and reap a whirlwind. It does not have a firm stalk; the bud will yield no grain. But if it does yield, strangers will eat it.
8 Israel has been devoured. Now, among the nations, it has become like an unclean vessel.
9 For they have gone up to Assur, a wild ass alone by himself. Ephraim has given presents to his lovers.
10 But even when they will have brought the nations together for the sake of money, now I will assemble them. And they will rest for a little while from the burden of the king and the leaders.
11 For Ephraim multiplied altars to sin, and sanctuaries have become an offense for him.
12 I will write to him my intricate laws, which have been treated like strangers.
13 They will offer victims, they will immolate flesh and will eat, and the Lord will not accept them. For now he will remember their iniquity, and he will repay their sins: they will be turned back to Egypt.
14 And Israel has forgotten his Maker and has built shrines. And Judah has increased its fortified cities. And I will send fire upon his cities, and it will devour its structures.
Versículos relacionados com Hosea, 8:
Hosea 8 describes how the people of Israel rebelled against God, rejecting the divine laws and statutes in favor of human leaders and false gods. Following are five verses from other parts of the Bible that relate to the topics addressed in Hosea 8.
Deuteronomy 8:19-20: "If you divert, worshiping and following other gods, I declare them today that you will surely be destroyed ... You will be eliminated as the nations that the Lord has destroyed before you, for not obeying the Lord , your God. " This excerpt highlights the importance of faithfully following God and not deviating to worship other gods, or suffer serious consequences.
Exodus 20:3: "You will not have other gods before me." This commandment emphasizes the exclusivity of worship of God, and how wrong it is to put other entities at the same level as the Creator.
Jeremiah 2:13: "My people have committed two sins: They abandoned me the source of living water, and dug their own cisterns, cracked cisterns that do not retain water." This verse illustrates how foolish and useless it is to look for unsatisfactory water sources and neglect the true source of life in God.
2 Kings 17:15: "They rejected their statutes and the pact they had made with their ancestors, and the warnings he had given. They followed false idols and became false in themselves, following the neighboring nations that the Lord had expelled from before them. " This passage describes how the people of Israel moved away from God's way and became the pagan nations around them.
Jeremiah 7:4: "Do not trust misleading words, saying, 'This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord!'" This verse highlights the importance of not relying only on places of worship or religious rituals External, but in a personal relationship with God.
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