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Hosea 8:6

Verse 6 of 14. The 8th of 14 chapters in Hosea, in The Minor Prophets.

2They cry to me, ‘My God, we, Israel, acknowledge you!’

3Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him.

4They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn’t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.

5Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?

6For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

7For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

8Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.

9For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.

10But although they sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.