Hosea · Bible in Basic English
Hosea 8 Bible in Basic English
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Hosea is not in PT1904.
1 Put the horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of the Lord; because they have gone against my agreement, they have not kept my law.
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2 They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel.
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3 Israel has given up what is good; his haters will go after him.
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4 They have put up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, but I had no knowledge of it; they have made images of silver and gold, so that they may be cut off.
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5 I will have nothing to do with your young ox, O Samaria; my wrath is burning against them; how long will it be before the children of Israel make themselves clean?
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6 The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.
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7 For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.
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8 Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.
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9 For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.
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10 But though they give money to the nations for help, still I will send them in all directions; and in a short time they will be without a king and rulers.
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11 Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.
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12 Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.
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13 He gives the offerings of his lovers, and takes the flesh for food; but the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep in mind their evil-doing and give them the punishment of their sins; they will go back to Egypt.
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14 For Israel has no memory of his Maker, and has put up the houses of kings; and Judah has made great the number of his walled towns. But I will send a fire on his towns and put an end to his great houses.
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Cross references (14)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Hosea 6:7; Deuteronomy 28:49; Jeremiah 4:13; Hosea 5:8; Habakkuk 1:8
- 2 Matthew 7:21; Titus 1:16; Hosea 7:13–14; Psalm 78:34–37; Matthew 25:11
- 3 Lamentations 3:66; Psalm 81:10–11; Amos 1:11; Lamentations 4:19; Psalm 36:3
- 4 Hosea 13:9–10; 2 Kings 15:10–30; Hosea 13:2; 1 Kings 12:16–20; John 10:14
- 5 Hosea 10:5; Jeremiah 13:27; Proverbs 1:22; Jeremiah 4:14; 2 Kings 17:16–18
- 6 Habakkuk 2:18; Jeremiah 10:3–9; Jeremiah 10:14; Psalm 106:19–20; Isaiah 44:9–20
- 7 Proverbs 22:8; Job 4:8; Galatians 6:7; Nahum 1:3; Hosea 7:9
- 8 Jeremiah 22:28; Jeremiah 51:34; 2 Timothy 2:20–21; Ezekiel 36:3; 2 Kings 18:11
- 9 Jeremiah 2:24; Ezekiel 16:33–34; Hosea 7:11; Hosea 5:13; 2 Kings 15:19
- 10 Ezekiel 16:37; Ezekiel 26:7; Jeremiah 42:2; Hosea 10:10; Isaiah 10:8
- 11 Hosea 12:11; Deuteronomy 4:28; Isaiah 10:10–11; Hosea 10:8; Jeremiah 16:13
- 12 Romans 7:12; Deuteronomy 4:6–8; Hosea 4:6; Proverbs 22:20; 2 Kings 17:15–16
- 13 Hosea 9:9; Hosea 9:6; Amos 8:7; Amos 5:22; Hosea 9:3–4
- 14 Jeremiah 17:27; Deuteronomy 32:18; Hosea 13:6; Amos 2:5; Isaiah 17:10
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences