Hosea 8 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath given gifts to his lovers.

² 0 But even though they shall have hired the nations, now will I gather them together: and they shall rest a while from the burden of the king, and the princes.

³ 1 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin: altars are become to him unto sin.

⁴ 2 I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been accounted as foreign.

⁵ 3 They shall offer victims, they shall sacrifice flesh, and shall eat it, and the Lord will not receive them: now will he remember their iniquity, and will visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

⁶ 4 And Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and hath built temples: and Juda hath built many fenced cities: and I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the houses thereof.

⁷ Rejoice not, O Israel: rejoice not as the nations do: for thou hast committed fornication against thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.

⁸ The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the wine shall deceive them.

⁹ They shall not dwell in the Lord's land: Ephraim is returned to Egypt, and hath eaten unclean things among the Assyrians.

¹⁰ They shall not offer wine to the Lord, neither shall they please him: their sacrifices shall be like the bread of mourners: all that shall eat it shall be defiled: for their bread is life for their soul, it shall not enter into the house of the Lord.

¹¹ What will you do in the solemn day, in the day of the feast of the Lord?

¹² For behold they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them together, Memphis shall bury them: nettles shall inherit their beloved silver, the bur shall be in their tabernacles.

¹³ The days of visitation are come, the days of repaying are come: know ye, O Israel, that the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the multitude of thy madness.

¹⁴ The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: the prophet is become a snare of ruin upon all his ways, madness is in the house of his God.