{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Hosea",
 "chapter": 8,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?"
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof."
  }
 ],
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}