Hosea 8

1“Place a trumpet at your lips! 2They cry out to me, 3But Israel has rejected what is good, 4They have set up kings, 5“Your calf has been rejected, Samaria. 6For this idol came from Israel; 7For the people sow the wind 8Israel is swallowed up; 9For they went up to Assyria 10Even though they have hired lovers among the nations, 11For Ephraim has multiplied altars for sin offerings, 12I could write down my law for them ten thousand times, 13As for the sacrifices of my offerings,