Hosea 8

1 Put the horn to your mouth! An eagle swoops down upon the house of the Lord because they have transgressed my covenant, trespassed against my law.

to(wards) palate your trumpet like/as eagle upon house: temple LORD because to pass: trespass covenant my and upon instruction my to transgress

2 To me they continually cry, ‘My God, we Israel, we know you!’

to/for me to cry out God my to know you Israel

3 But Israel has spurned that which is good, so let the foe pursue him.

to reject Israel good enemy to pursue him

4 They themselves have made kings but without my consent. They have made princes but without my knowledge. Out of their silver and gold, they have made idols to their destruction!

they(masc.) to reign and not from me to reign and not to know silver: money their and gold their to make to/for them idol because to cut: eliminate

5 Your calf idol, O Samaria, is distasteful. My anger is kindled against them. How long will they escape punishment?

to reject calf your Samaria to be incensed face: anger my in/on/with them till how not be able innocence

6 Israel made the thing: a workman made it. It is not a god! Samaria’s calf will become mere splinters.

for from Israel and he/she/it artificer to make him and not God he/she/it for fragment to be calf Samaria

7 They sow the wind and will reap the whirlwind. A shoot which has no stalk, yields no fruit If it should yield, strangers would devour it.

for spirit: breath to sow and whirlwind [to] to reap standing grain nothing to/for him branch without to make: do flour perhaps to make: do be a stranger to swallow up him

8 Israel is devoured. Already it lies discarded among the nations like a worthless pot.

to swallow up Israel now to be in/on/with nation like/as article/utensil nothing pleasure in/on/with him

9 For by themselves they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey which wanders by itself. Ephraim pays for love

for they(masc.) to ascend: rise Assyria wild donkey be alone to/for him Ephraim to hire lover

10 but even if they sell themselves among the nations, I will round them up. Soon the kings and princes will writhe under the burden of tribute!

also for to hire in/on/with nation now to gather them and to profane/begin: begin little from burden king ruler

11 For as many altars as Ephraim has erected, they are to him altars for sinning,

for to multiply Ephraim altar to/for to sin to be to/for him altar to/for to sin

12 were I to write for him ever so many instructions, they would be regarded as from a stranger.

(to write *Qk) to/for to write (abundance *QK) instruction my like be a stranger to devise: count

13 The people love sacrifice, and so they offer sacrifices, meat, and so they eat it, although the Lord is not pleased with them, so now he will remember their guilt, and punish their sins. Back to Egypt with them!

sacrifice gift my to sacrifice flesh and to eat LORD not to accept them now to remember iniquity: crime their and to reckon: punish sin their they(masc.) Egypt to return: return

14 For Israel forgot his Maker and built palaces, and Judah multiplied fortified cities. But I will send fire upon her cities, and it will devour her strongholds.

and to forget Israel [obj] to make him and to build temple: palace and Judah to multiply city to gather/restrain/fortify and to send: depart fire in/on/with city his and to eat citadel: fortress her